PHM-Exch> USA: PHM @ APHA - more events and sessions

[Claudio Schuftan]

   From:    phm at hesperian.org

From: Lily Walkover <phm at hesperian.org>

Please note the following sessions at the American Public Health
Association meetings in Washington, DC, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2.  Sessions will
include  issues onr Trade & Health Forum and Medical Care, as well as the
Global Health Watch 3 launch.



Trade and Health Forum Business Meeting, 204.0

SUNDAY, October 30*  *2:30-4:00PM

Grand Hyatt, Roosevelt Room

Roundtable and conversation with trade and health experts:

• Aaron Schwid, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids

• Peter Maybarduk, Global Trade Watch/Public Citizen

• Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO

• Ellen Shaffer, CPATH; Don Zeigler, AMA; and others…

Discuss the latest news on trade agreement negotiations, including access
to medicines and tobacco control, and what we can do to promote public
health. Plus, Forum business and elections. Please join us!

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Can public health prevail on Medicare, social programs, reproductive
rights? P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session, 4321
Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Grand Hyatt, Latrobe Room
**
The 2011 P. Ellen Parsons session reviews public policy issues of critical
importance to public health: *debates on the federal budget and on
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security; and reproductive rights.* This
annual session honors and memorializes the life of P. Ellen Parsons, a
scientific researcher and a passionate and humorous advocate, and a leader
in this session's APHA sponsors: Medical Care Section, Women's Caucus,
Spirit of 1848 Caucus, and Women's Caucus.
*Session Objectives:* Identify threats to major U.S. social insurance
programs - Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security - and to reproductive
health. Discuss how the Congressional Progressive Caucus and other policy
makers are responding to these threats Evaluate strategies for advancing
reproductive rights and justice.
 Organizer and Moderator:
Ellen R. Shaffer<http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/schedule/Role465026.html>,
PhD MPH

 2:30 PM:  What is Congress doing about social
insurance?<http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/schedule/Paper253707.html>
*Cathy Hurwit, Chief of Staff, Rep. Jan Schakowsky*

3:00 PM  Women's rights: Where does our movement
stand?<http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/schedule/Paper253679.html>
*Louise Melling, American Civil Liberties Union, * *Director, ACLU
Reproductive Freedom Project*

*CE Credits:* Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public
Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)
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Occupy Wall St and Occupy movements in cities and towns across the country
have opened up great opportunities to link the struggles for social justice
with public health. An  APHA panel session will discuss this
important and exciting development of  the Occupy movements along with
popular protests around the world. *The panel (Session 4339)  will be on
**TUESDAY,  NOV. 1st at 2:30 PM in ROOM  147-B of the Convention Center
(WCC)*.
Panelists will include health activists participating in the movements in
Egypt, Wisconsin, Baltimore, NY and elsewhere.
After the session, join panelists in a march to the nearby Occupy DC site to
show solidarity of public health activists with Occupy DC and to demand
healthcare for all instead of a system that delivers health care services
only for profits for the 1% at the expense of health for the 99%.

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Join PHM-US at the APHA
conference<http://e2ma.net/go/7316348915/208717819/226353592/35444/goto:http://www.apha.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting>
in
Washington, DC for wine and cheese on Tuesday, 11/1 from 4:00 – 5:30 to
celebrate the launch of* Global Health Watch 3: An Alternative World Health
 Report*! We will be gathering at the Hesperian Health Guides table, *Booth
6000*, and copies of the new report will be available hot off the press.
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