157 LT - Public health and public health activism

Friday, June 2, 2017: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Plaza room 1 (Hofstra University)
"A Form of Suffrage Movement:" The Women's Health Initiative and Feminist Health Activism since the 1990s
Heather Munro Prescott, Central Connecticut State University
Preemies, Poverty, Race and Policy
Cheryl b. Mwaria, Hofstra University
A Few Drops in the Eyes of Every Infant: Preventative Medicine, Neonatal Blindness, and Public Health in the United States, 1884-1929
Madeline Williams, Harvard University
'Elementary Principles' and 'Ordinary Cleanliness': Women's and Children's Welfare Programs and the Transmission and Adaptation of Biomedical Ideas in Colonial Uganda
Kathleen Vongsathorn, University of Warwick
American Feminists and the Construction of Violence as a Public Health Issue (1980-2010)
Stephanie Pache, Harvard University
Comment:
Elaine Abelson, The New School

Session Abstract

This panel examines women’s roles as both players and subjects of expanding public health. Discussed is the crucial roles women have played in claiming space in the arena of public health through the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), efforts by feminists to reframe violence as a public health issue, and changing relationship between private interests and public health in relation to differences in mother and infant care in the U.S. Also included are a case study of how African American women have dealt with struggles of premature childbirth, racism, and economic instability as well as an examination of the role of gender in biomedical studies and treatment in Uganda. 

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