Building Community, Critical Consciousness and a Movement for Health Equity
VIRTUAL SUMMIT
15th - 18th October 2020
10:00AM - 2:00PM EST/ 5:00PM - 9:00PM EAT
15 October 2020 Faculty Development Building on a decade of experience teaching social medicine, Day 1 will focus on honing the skills of attendees in building critical consciousness and the teaching and learning of social medicine courses in local and global contexts.
16 October 2020 Haiti In celebration of EQ’s tenth annual Haiti conference, Day 2 will explore the contextual causes of inequity and becoming agents of change.
17 October 2020 Global Programming Led by EQ’s Campaign Against Racism, Day 3 will focus on building a transnational, community-based radical imagination of a future without structural racism and racial capitalism.
18 October 2020 Global Summit Day 4 is the conference climax focusing on the intersection of social medicine, building community, critical consciousness, and collective actions towards health equity.
Objectives
Build power and deepen relationships across borders in a turbulent moment of pandemic, authoritarianism, racial capitalism, and uprising.
Inspire transnational solidarity, healing, and radical imagination
Reflect on the power and pain of anniversaries- 10 years of SocMed courses; 10 years since the Haiti earthquake and founding of EqualHealth; 10 years of annual conference in Haiti; and 5 years of SMC and 5th annual SMC conference.
Center anti-blackness and racism against indigenous people as root causes of oppression and dismantling them as antidotes to health
CALL FOR ABSTRACT
EqualHealth is accepting abstracts for its upcoming virtual conference! Accepted abstracts will be live on the website before, during and after the conference with some being highlighted on the last day of the conference, which will be the 18th October 2020 from 10-2PM ET. Submission Deadline for Abstracts will be September 25th, 2020.
A limited number of accepted abstracts will be presented on the final day of the conference. Authors may choose to present their work in the form of traditional scientific posters, short video talks of 5 minutes, and/or artistic pieces in their preferred form.
Abstracts for presentations should describe: innovative social medicine programs, projects, people’s narratives/lived experiences/stories, community organizing, research, or curricula being developed or experienced or implemented anywhere globally. Abstracts need to highlight at least one of the following conference objectives:
Build power and deepen relationships across borders in a turbulent moment of the pandemic, authoritarianism, racial capitalism, and uprising.
Inspire transnational solidarity, healing, and radical imagination
Reflect on the power and pain of anniversaries- 10 years of SocMed courses; 10 years since the Haiti earthquake and founding of EqualHealth; 10 years of the annual conference in Haiti; and 5 years of SMC and 5th annual SMC conference.
Centre anti-blackness and racism against indigenous people as root causes of oppression and dismantling them as antidotes to health
Broadly, you will notice these fall into this year’s summit focus on community building, critical consciousness for social justice activism, and building a movement for health equity.
Some examples of areas that abstracts can address include: community organizing wins (particularly during Covid-19), building solidarity during Covid-19, transnational actions in the context of migration and deportation; climate justice organizing; healing justice initiatives; indigenous science; organizing around declaring racism as a public health crisis; abolition; critical consciousness and political education models; community platform models, examples of organizing centering Back Indigenous People Of Color (BIPOC) communities, naming disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on BIPOC.
Submissions from health professionals who are not physicians and other disciplines are strongly encouraged and submissions from those who are not health workers but whose work centres around the social determinants of health. Please note that we are able to guarantee a limited number of internet connection sponsorship for authors of accepted abstracts, with strong preference for those from the global south. Opportunities to apply for internet connection sponsorship through the SMC will be announced in the coming week but will be limited.
Abstract Submission Guidelines
1. The maximum word count for abstract submissions is 300 words.
2. Abstracts may be submitted in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, English, or Portuguese.
3. Posters/narratives may be presented in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, English, or Portuguese.
Abstracts in the category of traditional poster presentation must be structured as follows:
For Projects still in development
1. Statement of Problem
2. Description of the concept/intervention
3. Description of team members, target group, and existing models (if any)
4. Project design including plans for data collection, analysis and evaluation
5. Initial impressions, challenges encountered, and next steps
For completed projects
1. Statement of the Problem
2. Program Design
3. Program Implementation
4. Results/Outcomes and Evaluation
5. Conclusions and/or Recommendations
Authors in the category of personal narratives or artistic pieces are at liberty to decide the structure for their abstract. The final video or audio submissions will be limited to 5 minutes each.
Submissions from health professionals who are not physicians and other disciplines are strongly encouraged and submissions from those who are not health workers but whose work centers around the social determinants of health.
Please note that we are able to guarantee a limited number of internet connection sponsorship for authors of accepted abstracts, with strong preference for those from the global south. Opportunities to apply for internet connection sponsorship through the Social Medicine Consortium will be announced in the coming week.
