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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Ester R. Shapiro, PhD, Psychology and Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Research, University of Massachusetts at Boston and Boston Women's Health Book Collective, 100 Morrissey Blvd, McCormick Bldg., M-4-210, Boston, MA 02125-3393 and Eileen J. Santa, BS, Psychology, University of Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02164, 978-8214008, ester.shapiro@umb.edu.
Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas, the Spanish cultural adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves, was created through collaboration between a Boston team of U.S. Latinas and over 30 Latin American women’s health groups, creating a transformational “trialogo” between the North American text, concepts, materials and methods of Latin American and Caribbean women’s health activists, and U.S. Latinas working at the intersection of language, gender, culture and social change. Through these collaborations, we created a text based on culturally meaningful images of healthy interdependence, mutuality, citizenship, and spirituality, that help clarify the connection between personal struggles and the social conditions that promote good health for Latinas, their families and communities. This presentation describes next steps in collaboration and coalition building between U.S. Latinas and Latin American groups, in a leadership development program that uses locally designed workshops in gender, culture and health to build local leadership capacity and support development of local, regional, national and transnational networks in Latina health. Building on the model of the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network’s Universidad Itinerante/Itinerant University, the presentation will describe a model for outreach workshops that connect activist academics, community based organizations, and help link local, regional and transnational activist networks will be described. Examples of outreach workshops that apply this participatory education and organizing model through local collaborations will be described. This presentation honors the memory of Helen Rodriguez Trias, whose leadership in women’s health built bridges and inspired North/South collaborations toward a shared vision of Latina health.
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Keywords: Latinas, Collaboration
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.