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Why do health disparities persist? How can we address them at their roots?
Structural Competency is the capacity to recognize and respond to health outcomes as the downstream effect of social, political, and economic structures within and beyond the clinic walls. This framework prepares us to act at the level of neighborhoods, institutions, and policies in tandem with the social movements growing all around us. It is currently featured in the New England Journal of Medicine’s new series of case studies in Social Medicine, which is co-edited by our keynote speakers. We invite health professionals, scholars, students, community organizers, and anyone interested in health for all to gain perspectives and skills on advocacy at the bedside and beyond.
Conference Details:
Speakers include clinicians, scholars, and frontline organizers who will address local and global issues at the intersection of health and social inequity. Conversations will span poverty, racism, immigration, environmental injustice, labor, homelessness, LGBTQ discrimination, incarceration, addiction, and more. A training will be led by the Bay Area Structural Competency Working Group. The first 50 to arrive will receive a California Endowment #Health4All t-shirt. In addition to the speaker program, we’re also hosting a community org fair, the UCR Bookstore (selling titles by our speakers and other recommended reads by cash and credit), and an art exhibition of Justseeds and CultureStrike's MIGRATION NOW! portfolio.
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PROGRAM
Click here for downloadable program with speaker bios
8:00AM Check-in and Continental Breakfast
8:40AM Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dean Deborah Deas, MD, MPH | Dean of the School of Medicine and Chief Executive Officer for Clinical Affairs, University of California, Riverside
Annie Le, MPH | Conference Director and Co-Founder of UCR Health Equity and Structural Competency Collective
9:00AM Opening Keynote
Helena Hansen, MD, PhD | Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Anthropology at NYU who coined “Structural Competency”
With introduction by Bruce Link, PhD, MS | Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, University of California, Riverside
9:40AM Training Session 1
Kelly Knight, PhD | Associate Professor of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Trainer, Structural Competency Working Group
Josh Neff, MS | Founder and Co-Coordinator, Structural Competency Working Group
Nimish Saxena | Co-Coordinator, Structural Competency Working Group
Carlos Martinez, MPH | Member, Structural Competency Working Group
10:35AM Break
10:40AM Panel 1: At the Bedside and Beyond
Angela C. Jenks, PhD | Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology at UC Irvine
Jyoti Puvvula, MD, MPH | Associate Clinical Professor, Harbor-UCLA Department of Family Medicine and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA research partner
Scott Allen, MD I Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine at UCR SOM, Medical Director of Borrego Health Access Clinic, Expert Medical Advisor for Physicians for Human Rights
Patricia Gonzalez-Zuñiga, MD | Founder of La Clínica de Heridas/The Wound Clinic in Tijuana, HIV/AIDS specialist with the Global Health Institute at UC San Diego
Moderated by Juliet McMullin, PhD | Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
12:00PM Lunch & Organization Fair
12:55PM Afternoon Welcome
- Dean Milagros Peña, PhD | Professor and Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, Riverside
1:05PM Training Session 2
1:45PM Break
1:50PM Panel 2: At the Frontlines
Heidi Hoechst, PhD | Lead educator at National Nurses United
Veronica Alvarado | Program Coordinator for Warehouse Worker Resource Center, Board Member for the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
Luis Nolasco | Community Engagement & Policy Advocate at ACLU of Southern California and Steering Committee Member, Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice
Gabriel Maldonado, MBA | Founder and CEO of TruEvolution
Linda Sharp, MD | Internist at Martin Luther King, Jr Community Hospital in South LA, President & CEO of Doctors for Global Health
Moderated by Ann Cheney, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine Population and Public Health, University of California, Riverside
3:10PM Break
3:15PM Closing Keynote
Seth Holmes, MD, PhD | Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology, Society and Environment, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, and Co-Director of the MD/PhD Track in Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley
With introduction by Philippe Bourgois, PhD | Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, Department of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
4:00PM Community Building Reception
Stick around for our post-conference social and appetizers until 5pm
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Registration is closed. Registration through this site guarantees you a seat and meals. Payment is due at the door by cash or check. Free for all UCR graduate, medical, and undergraduate students, and UCR-affiliated medical residents. $10 for non-UCR students/residents and general admission. $25 for health professionals and faculty. Please let us know if you can no longer attend so that we can open your spot to the waitlist and reduce food waste.
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Presented by: The Health Equity & Structural Competency Collective
Co-sponsored with generous financial support by: UCR SOM Office of the Dean | UCR Department of Anthropology | UCR SOM Center for Humanities and Medical Practice | The Arnold P. Gold Foundation | UCR Graduate Student Association | UCR Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | UCR School of Public Policy | Gold Humanism Honor Society-UCR SOM Chapter | UCR Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience | UCR Department of Social Medicine, Population and Public Health | Inequities in Health Faculty Commons | UCR SOM Family and Preventive Medicine Interest Group | Berkeley Center for Social Medicine | UCR Center for Ideas and Society | UCR SOM Office of Faculty Development
Photo credit: Margarita Loeza, MD from the Medical Brigade to Aid Refugees