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Healthcare Providers as Community Advocates

March 24, 2013
Berkeley, California

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: 156 Dwinelle Hall - UC Berkeley Campus

Panel discussion on social justice in healthcare, co-sponsored by San Francisco Bay Area PSR.

Speakers include SF Bay Area PSR Steering Committee members Robert M. Gould, MD and Jeffrey Ritterman, MD, as well as Kathleen Gillis, MSN, RN, FNP and Ingrid Pampalone, MPA, PA-C.

The event is cosponsored with the UC Berkeley Post-Baccalaureate Chapter of AMSA. Information available at UCBPB.AMSA@gmail.com.

Resources

  • Public Health and Social Justice Reader

    Martin T. Donohoe, MD, is adjunct associate professor in Community Health at Portland State University. He is chief scientific advisor to Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility's Campaign for Safe Foods. Read more »

  • Niños Seguros y Sanos: Safe and Healthy Children

    This one-year pilot program aimed to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate training resource guide, complete with several trainer tools as well as fact-sheets and case studies about environmental health for staff of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and the Migrant and Seasonal Health Clinics. Read more »

  • Environmental Justice and Toxic Chemical Exposures

    Healthcare providers and public health practitioners know that disadvantaged communities suffer from chronic disease -- asthma, heart disease, obesity, cancer, and others -- at far greater rates than do others. From PSR's Environmental Health Policy Institute. Read more »

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