Presentations from the 2011 Symposium (below) can now be found here.
Videos of the presentations from the 2011 Symposium can now be found here.
2011: The Social (Justice) Network
March 26th, 2011 at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Presenters have been recruited to address one of the following themes:
- Curricula as an agent of social change
- Defining and utilizing the concept of health equity
- Innovations in global engagement
***Symposium Program***
All presentations will be video taped and posted to this site after the symposium.
Map of symposium location (Biomedical Science Research Building at 109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, Mich)
| 8:30 – Registration & Breakfast | |
| 9:00 – Welcome Address: Sofia Merajver, MD, PhD, Director of Center for Global Health, Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Michigan | |
| 9:30 - KEYNOTE SPEAKER; Peter Mugyenyi, MD Founder and director of Joint Clinical Research Center, Kampala, Uganda, NIH-Fogarty Program | |
| 10:20 – Break | |
| 10:30 - Equity: The Local Flavor; Sofia Merajver, MD, PhD, Director of Center for Global Health, Professor of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Michigan | |
| 11:00 – White Coats, Population Science and Poison Gas: Fact-Finding Missions by Health Professionals for Human Rights. Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD, NSF International Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Michigan
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11:30 – Parallel Sessions |
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| Lecture as an agent for social change?; Matthew Rysavy, MD/PhD candidate, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine | Social Innovations: from NTDs to NCDs; Sandeep Kishore, MD/PhD candidate, Weill Cornell/The Rockefeller University/Sloan-Kettering Institute, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines & Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network |
| 12:00 – Innovation and Implementation of Health and Human Rights Education: Tales from the Trenches; Physicians for Human Rights National Student Advisory Board | |
| 12:30 – LUNCH | |
| 1:00 – POSTER SESSION | |
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1:45 – Parallel Sessions |
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Innovations and Health Equity
1:45 – Connecting Surgery to the Social (Justice) Network; Ben Bryner, MD, MS, General Surgery, University of Michigan Health System
2:15- Small Nonprofits Changing The World: How You Can Do It Too! (Workshop); Alison Hayward, MD, MPH candidate, Emergency Medicine, UMass Medical Center, Uganda Village Project Director
2:45 – Practical Uses of Health Equity in Disease Control Programs; Naman Shah, MD/PhD candidate, University of North Carolina
3:15- Translating Global Health Research into International Policy: Experiments in Public Health, Politics and Advocacy; Anand Reddi, MD candidate, University of Colorado |
Curriculum as an Agent for Social Change
1:45 – Panel
Ethics as Social Change; Anna Malavisi, PhD candidate, Michigan State University
Wayne State Summer Service Learning Program: Lessons of Rural China; Megha Trivedi, Sophomore, Wayne State University MedStart Program Transforming Ideas to Action: The Design & Implementation of the Health Equity Scholars Program; Michael Clery, MD candidate, University of Michigan AMSA Health Equity Scholars Program; Erin Strong, MPH, MD candidate, University of Michigan
Social Justice Education: Constructing a survey to collect student attitudes; Sonali Palchaudhuri, MD candidate, University of Michigan |
| 3:45 – Tea and Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 - What is good enough? Evaluating equity in access to medicine policies; Ethan Guillen, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines past Executive Director | |
| 4:30 – Respect, Protect, Fulfill: Partnering Globally to Claim Human Rights; Susannah Sirkin, Physicians for Human Rights, Deputy Director | |
| 5:00 – Closing Remarks: Joseph Kolars, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives at the University of Michigan Medical School | |