1 Comment August 10th, 2010 by Matthew Anderson
The Migrant Clinicians Network cordially invites you to The National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice, September 23-25, 2010 in Washington DC. The National Summit of Clinicians for Healthcare Justice is a one-of-a-kind event sponsored by many of the major safety-net clinician organizations from across the United States: Migrant Clinicians Network; National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine; National Association of Community Health Centers; Healthcare for the Homeless Clinicians Network; Clinical Directors Network; Association of Clinicians for the Underserved; and Midwest Clinicians Network. The conference provides an opportunity for clinicians and others to explore cutting edge solutions and to be a part of the vital efforts to make quality health care for the underserved a reality. Former Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher will convene a group of current and former Surgeon Generals to address critical health justice issues at this event. Additionally, organizers have confirmed the participation of nationally renowned faculty for dynamic plenary and panel discussions, including Dr. Jack Geiger and Dr. Linda Rae Murray. Don’t miss this very important event! For more information and to confirm your reservation visit www.allclinicians.org.
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Add a comment March 9th, 2009 by Matthew Anderson
We wanted to alert our readers about an upcoming conference entitled Housing, Health and Serial Displacement which will be held at the New York Academy of Medicine on April 8, 2009, 8:30 AM to 5 PM. The following text and photographs are from the flyer for this event.
Segregation in Pittsburgh, 1930 Map: Joe Darden
Urban renewal, highway construction, gentrification, HOPE VI, foreclosure crisis: a long list of policies and programs have led to the displacement of communities. What is little understood is that these policies have led to repeatedly upheaval in American cities, destroying housing and undermining health. This conference will explore the history, tactics and consequences of serial displacement.
Redlining Syracuse, 1937 Homeowners Loan Corporation
Program: (Speaker biographies are available here).
Keynote: Thomas Hanchett, Author of Sorting Out the New South City
Morning Panel: Serial displacement and health
• Mindy Thompson Fullilove, NYS Psychiatric Institute
• Rodrick Wallace, NYS Psychiatric Institute
• Pat Sharkey, Columbia University
Working Groups: Linking Serial Displacement to Our Work
LUNCH
Afternoon Panel:
• Mehret Mandefro, TruthAIDS
• Patrick Morrissy, HANDS, Inc., Orange NJ
• Terri Baltimore, Hill House, Pittsburgh
Working Groups: Identifying New Perspectives
Afternoon Keynote: Displacement as a violation of human rights
Summary and Closing Remarks: David Vlahov, NY Academy of Medicine
Planned shrinkage in Harlem, 1995
New York Academy of Medicine is located at: 1216 5th Ave, New York, NY 10029
Sponsors (list in formation):
NYAM Working Group on Serial Displacement
Community Research Group, NYSPI & Columbia University
Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention
Columbia Center on Homelessness Prevention
Registration free and a box lunch is available for $10
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2 Comments November 15th, 2008 by Matthew Anderson
Drew Gardens
On Wednesday, November 19th, the Public Health Association of New York (PHANYC) wil sponsor a symposium at Lehman College in the Bronx entitled: Feast and Famine: Obesity, Diabetes and Hunger in New York City. The event, which is cosponsored by the MPH program at Lehman, will take place between 6 and 8PM at the Faculty Dining room of the Music Building at Lehman College. For directions, click here.
The program will include presentations by a diverse group of Bronx community activists. Among these are:
Sister Mary Alice of the Part of the Solution Soup Kitchen on Webster Avenue. POTS started in 1982 with three people making soup in a Bronx store front. “At that time, the original founders were told that POTS was the 35th emergency food provider in New York City . Twenty-four years later, there are over 170 providers in the Bronx alone.”
Lorraine Montenegro and Christian Estrada of United Bronx Parents, Inc will also discuss hunger in the Bronx. UBP runs a variety of programs including La Escuelita, which includes a homeless hot meals program and an emergency food pantry.
Someone from the local Health Department will discuss Bronx Farmers’ Markets.
Jennifer Plewka of the Phipps Development Corporation will discuss community gardens. Phipps is a large non-profit which develops, owns and manages affordable housing. Phipps also runs a community development corporation which created Drew Gardens in the West Farms section of the Bronx. Details on the garden are available from the Bronx River Alliance at this link.
Marian Feinberg of For A Better Bronx (FABB) will discuss several initiatives to support alternative food sources including community gardens, farmers’ markets and indoor food growing.
David Sappire of the Council on the Environment will discuss the Learn It, Grow It, Eat It program in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx. You can see this program in action in a video clip from an August 2008 WCBS TV news report.
A representative of Bronx Health Reach will discuss their Bodegas Outreach Initiative which encourages bodega owners to low-fat snacks, 1% milk, and a variety of fruit.
Many of these programs work in collaboration with local academic medical centers including Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Institute for Family Health.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact PHANYC at info@phanyc.org.
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Add a comment June 20th, 2008 by Matthew Anderson
The National Physicians Alliance has developed a campaign at www.RxVote.org to promote voter registration in health centers and clinics. This is being done in coordination with Rock the Vote.
The campaign’s website provides a fairly complete set of tools for organizing a voter registration drive. Among these are:
The information on felony voting rights comes from the Sentencing Project. According to the project “1.4 million African American men, or 13% of black men, are disenfranchised, a rate seven times the national average.” This is one of the many impacts of mass incarceration on our communities. And yet another reason for us to strengthen the ailing fabric of US democracy.
