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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Overall framework, historical origins, and political context of health internationalism, activist generations, and impact of medical McCarthyism


Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, MA, ScD, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Theodore Brown, PhD, Dept. of History University of Rochester, URMC, Rochester, NY
Jane Brickman, PhD

Learning Areas:

Administration, management, leadership
Advocacy for health and health education
Diversity and culture
Provision of health care to the public
Public health administration or related administration
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Identify historical factors which empowered and impeded international efforts during mid-20th century Define important issues involved in identifying and responding to international health projects

Keyword(s): International Public Health, Public Policy

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I co-edited the book on which the session is based, and I have extensive experience as a historian of public health as well as a moderator, organizer, and presenter at APHA sessions.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 4331.0: P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session: Comrades in health: US health internationalists, abroad and at home (organized by Women's Caucus, Spirit of 1848, Socialist Caucus, and Medical Care)