<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Anderson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bronxdoc@gmail.com">bronxdoc@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">[Please distribute widely]<br>
<br><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">International
People’s Health
University
(IPHU) of the</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">People’s
Health Movement (PHM) and</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">Social
Medicine Journal</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">Present
a short training course</span><span style="color:black">,</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><i><span style="color:black">Movement</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:black"> Building</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:black"> through Action for Health</span></i></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">June
4 – 12, 2011, New York, USA</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Objectives </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">International People’s Health
University (IPHU) short courses enable those concerned about people’s health in
a global context to make new connections, share experiences, study together and
become empowered to take action. The New
York course will focus on helping participants
develop projects and collaborations related to the goals of promoting “Health
for All.”</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Who should apply? </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:38.9pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Health
practitioners and activists, particularly those already involved in the People’s
Health Movement (PHM) and who have endorsed the Peoples Charter for Health. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:38.9pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="color:black">Younger people, people of color, and
community-based activists are particularly encouraged to apply.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:38.9pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">A college
degree is not required, but applicants should be prepared to devote time to the
pre-course preparation and participate in a high level of study and discussion
during the course.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:38.9pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Applicants should be fluent in English.
</span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:38.9pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>The
selection of applicants aims to achieve gender balance and a diversity of
backgrounds, skills, records of activism, interests, experience, and
educational experience.<span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:38.9pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="color:black">For applicants from the USA, preference will be given to
those from the eastern half of the country, as we intend to hold other IPHUs in
the central and western regions in the future.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:38.9pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="color:black">We anticipate accepting 35 students.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Curriculum </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">The curriculum includes </font></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">the
struggle for health: challenges, strategy and practice, achievements, and new
directions </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">working
with communities </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">social
determinants of health </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">comprehensive
primary health care </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">the
political economy of health, including globalization </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">health
systems </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">the right
to health: principles, achievements, and new directions</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">people’s health
and environmental change</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">advocacy
strategies and tactics</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:39.1pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">program/project/campaign
development </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Approach to learning </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:17.95pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">IPHU
are taught using a variety of techniques: participatory learning, theoretical
understanding, hands-on activities, and learning as a community. We aim to </font></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">heighten
awareness of the importance of a developmental approach to health that focuses
on social determinants, equity, social justice, and the right to health </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">provide
information on key issues, key documents, and strategies </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">raise
awareness of the need for a long term commitment for change </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">build on
the experience, knowledge and skills of the participants </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">sharpen participant’s
skills to make a shift from theory to action </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">develop
tools and techniques to become effective agents for change </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">build
networks for ongoing action involving the participants in the IPHU, as well as key
organizations and networks that can sustain each other in the ongoing struggle
for health</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Registration Fees </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">There is
no charge for applying to the IPHU.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Registration
fees include accommodation, meals, and transportation in New York, course documents, tea and coffee.
They do not include airfare or ground transportation from your hometown to New York City, nor
optional expenses (such as for excursions to NYC). </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">The
course uses a sliding scale fee structure to help subsidize participation.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Fee
structure</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:71.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Students
and individuals with incomes under $50,000 per year: $50. </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:71.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">o<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Unsponsored
participants with incomes over $50,000 per year: $300.</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Additional
scholarships may be available to help defray travel costs for some
participants. More information is provided on the application form.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Venue </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">Most activities will take
place at the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Retreat in Ossining, New
York. Participants will be housed at the
retreat.</font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">Field trips to community
projects in New York City
will be included.</font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">On Friday, June 10<sup>th</sup>,
participants will present their work at a conference on Health Activism at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</font></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Course Structure</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">We ask applicants to present
a concept paper (1-2 pages long) outlining a project related to the aims
of health for all. The course is
designed to help participants develop these concept papers into real
projects primarily through intensive mentoring in small groups. More information about the concept paper
is presented in the application. </font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">In addition to the project,
other parts of the curriculum will be delivered in workshops, site visits,
conversations and lectures. We will draw upon the PHM’s rich international
network of activists and scholars to teach these materials.</font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">Students will have a chance
to present the work they have done on their project at a conference on
Friday, June 10<sup>th</sup>. They will get formal feedback from an expert
in their field with experience in activism.</font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">Living and interacting
together for a week is an important part of the curriculum.</font></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif">Application Process</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39.0pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">The application can be downloaded at <a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/iphu2011" target="_blank">www.socialmedicine.org/iphu2011</a>.</span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Applications must be submitted by April
11, 2011.</span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Applications will be accepted on a
rolling basis, so that earlier applications are more likely to be
successful. </span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">All applicants will receive a response
by April 25<sup>th</sup>.</span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">Mail the completed applications as an
attached document to </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:Bronx.IPHU@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Bronx.IPHU@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="color:black">. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">If you
have any concerns about the application, please contact Ms. Suzanne Small-Cain
at </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:Bronx.IPHU@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Bronx.IPHU@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">Contacts </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="color:black">For
inquiries please contact the PHM USA at <a href="mailto:phm@turiano.org" target="_blank">phm@turiano.org</a></span><span style="color:black">.</span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left:35.95pt;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span>For more about the IPHU, including past courses
and the review of the last course held in Dakar Senegal,
please go to <span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/</span> </a></span><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">About </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">The People’s Health
Movement (PHM) </span></b><span style="color:black">is global movement
with roots deep in grassroots people's movements around the world. It owes its
genesis to many health networks and activists who have been concerned by the
growing inequities in health over the last 25 years. The PHM calls for a
revitalization of the principles of the Alma-Ata Declaration, which promised
Health for All by the year 2000 and complete revision of the international and
domestic policies that have impacted negatively on health status and systems.
The People's Health Movement is coordinated by a global secretariat and is
supported by a steering council. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">Contact: </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</span></a></span><span style="color:black"> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><span style="color:black">Web: </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.phmovement.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.phmovement.org</span></a></span><u><span style="color:black"> </span></u><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"> </font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="'times new roman', serif"><b><span style="color:black">The International People’s Health
University (IPHU) </span></b><span style="color:black">is one of the major
programs of the People’s Health Movement (PHM). IPHU is a global learning
program, providing short courses and other resources for health activists. For
more information, please see </span><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.phmovement.org/iphu/</span></a></span></font></p><font face="'times new roman', serif"><div>
<br></div><div><font size="4">A copy of the application form can be obtained from </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: large; "><a href="mailto:Bronx.IPHU@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; ">Bronx.IPHU@gmail.com</span></a></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; ">Visit <a href="http://socialmedicine.org" target="_blank">socialmedicine.org</a></span></div></font><br>
</div><br>