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Spirit of 1848 Caucus

 The Spirit of 1848: A Network Linking Politics, Passion, and Public Health

The Spirit of 1848 is a network of people concerned about social inequalities in
health. Our purpose is to spur new
connections among the many of us involved in different areas of public health,
who are working on diverse public health issues  (whether as researchers,
practitioners, teachers, activists, or all of the above), and live scattered
across diverse regions of the  United States and other countries. In doing so,
we hope to help counter the fragmentation that many of us face: within and
between disciplines, within and between work on particular diseases or health
problems, and within and between different  organizations geared to specific
issues or social groups. By making connections, we can overcome some of the
isolation that  we feel and find others with whom we can develop our thoughts,
strategies, and enhance efforts to eliminate social inequalities  in health.

 Our common focus is that we are all working, in one way or another, to
understand and change how social divisions based  on social class,
race/ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, and age affect the public's health. As
an activist network, we have  established five committees to conduct our work:

 1) Public Health Data: This committee focuses on how and why we measureand
study social inequalities in health, and  develops projects to influence the
collection of data in US vital statistics, health surveys, and disease
registries.

 2) Curriculum: This committee focuses on how public health and other health
professionals and students are trained and,  gathers and shares information
about courses and materials to spur critical thinking about social inequalities
in health, in their  present and historical context.

 3) E-Networking: This committee will focus on networking and communication
within the Spirit of 1848, using e-mail, web  page, newsletters, and occasional
mailings.

 4) Mentoring/Outreach: This committee will develop mentoring relationships, so
that some of us who have been around for a  while can share our experience
with--and also learn from--others of us who are relatively new to public health.

 5) History: This committee is an affiliate of the Sigerist Circle, an already
established organization of public health and medical  historians who use
critical theory (Marxian, feminist, and otherwise) to illuminate the history of
public health and how we have  arrived where we are today; its presence in the
Spirit of 1848 helps ensure our network's project are grounded in this sense  of
history, complexity, and context.

 We develop themes for our sessions at our annual business meeting at APHA, each
committee organizing at most one  session. After the theme is selected, we
solicit specified presentations (by both invitation and by requests for
abstracts) and  also advertise on our Spirit of 1848 email bulletin board if we
are looking or presentations to address the selected themes.

Nancy Krieger
Dept of Health & Social Behavior
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 432-1571
Fax: (617) 432-3755
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