LGBT Caucus of Public Health Professionals NEWSLETTER
November 6, 2018 See you in San Diego! APHA Annual Meeting kicks off on Sunday, November 11th, 2018!
See you in San Diego! APHA Annual Meeting kicks off on Sunday, November 11th, 2018! 1 Annual Meeting Scientific Sessions 2 Open Executive Committee Positions! Become a Leader! 3 Congratulations to Stephanie L. Creasy, MPH, Walter J. Lear Award Winner for Outstanding Scientific Abstract for Student Research 4 2018 Grant W. Farmer Award 4 Come Socialize with Us! 5 Updates on our Website and Membership Systems 6 Committee on Health Equity Session 7 In Memoriam 8
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Annual Meeting Scientific Sessions
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2018 04:00 PM-05:30 PM | 277.0 LGBT Caucus of 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | Convention Center 3 Public Health Professionals Business Meeting, 4170.0 Population and Policy Approaches to Convention Center 25B LGBT Health 01:00 PM-02:30 PM | 4277.0 Sexual Minority 07:00 PM-10:00 PM | 313.0 LGBT Caucus of Women’s Public Health (Including Lesbians, Public Health Professionals Social Hour, Bisexual Women, and/or Werewolf American Pub: 627 Fourth Ave, San WSW/WSWM), Convention Center 3 Diego, CA 92101 03:00 PM-04:30 PM |4368.0 Social Contexts and/or Social Determinants of LGBT Public MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2018 Health, Convention Center 3 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | 3162.0 Emerging Topics 05:00 PM-06:30 PM | 4430.0 in LGBT Public Health, Convention Center 3 Trans/Gender-Variant People's Public Health 1, 01:00 PM-02:30 PM | 3270.0 LGBT Healthcare Convention Center 3 Access and Clinical Care, Convention Center 3 03:00 PM-04:00 PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 08:30 AM-10:00 AM |5035.0 Violence and 3308.0 LGBT Topics in Public Health 1 Stigma in LGBT Communities, Convention Poster Session, Convention Center Hall Center 3 A/C 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | 5095.0 3309.0 LGBT Topics in Public Health 2 Trans/Gender-Variant People's Public Health 2, Convention Center 3 Poster Session, Convention Center Hall
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2018 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Questions?
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Open Executive Committee Positions! Become a Leader!
Are you interested in getting more involved in the LGBT Health Caucus? Are you committed to seeing LGBT focused public health research and practice thrive at APHA? Are you interested in helping promote and shape APHA policies and practices? Come to our business meeting and run for a positions! If you have questions about any of the below open executive committee positions, please check out our Bylaws and then feel free to email that person on the board for more information. Elections will be help at our annual business meeting on Sunday, November 11th from 4-5pm in room 25B of the San Diego Convention Center. If you are elected, you are expected to be able to make monthly executive committee calls, attend the annual meeting, and participate as a fully function member of caucus leadership. OPEN Positions!
i. Chair elect: One (1) year term; voting. The iii. Program Chair elect: Two (2) year; Chair-Elect is elected at the end of the first voting. The Program Chair-Elect will serve a year of the Chair’s two-year term. The two-year (2) term followed by a two-year Chair-Elect will serve a one-year (1) term (2) term as Program Chair requiring a four followed by a two-year (2) term as Chair (4) year commitment. The primary duties of and an additional one-year (1) term as the the Program Chair-elect are to Assist Immediate Past Chair requiring a four (4) Program chair in developing Caucus year commitment. Major duties of the Program. Chair-Elect include serving as back up to the iv. Website Chair: Two (2) year term; Chair, serving as the Caucus representative, voting. The duties of the Webmaster and overseeing the administration of the include maintaining the Caucus website, Grant W. Farmer Scholarship. To run for updating the Caucus website as directed by Chair Elect you must have prior experience the EC and/or the Chair, and ensures on the caucus executive board. appropriate content is provided to the ii. Secretary: Two (2) year term; voting. The Caucus contracted searchable database in duties of the Secretary are primarily to consultation with the Chair and Secretary. prepare the minutes of the Caucus Business v. Student Chair: Two (2) year term. One Meeting and Executive Committee (1) year term voting “Student Chair”; and meetings as soon as practicable after each one (1) year term, non-voting meeting and submit them to the Chair for "Immediate-Past Student Chair". The duties review and approval before sending to the of the Student Chair include developing and EC.
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maintaining an outreach program to are to collect membership dues at the students, working to enhance and evaluate Annual Meeting and throughout the year, the Caucus Mentoring Program, and maintain an accurate account of all financial working to enhance student involvement in transactions, and provide regular reports to the Caucus. the executive committee.
vi. Treasurer: Two (2) year term; voting. Some of the major duties of the Treasurer
Congratulations to Stephanie L. Creasy, MPH, Walter J. Lear Award Winner for Outstanding Scientific Abstract for Student Research
A huge round of applause for our 2018 Walter J. Lear Award winner, Stephanie L. Creasy, MPH for the highest scored peer reviewed abstract submitted for the 2018 scientific sessions! Her research is titled “Previously Incarcerated Transgender Women: A Mixed-Methods Study on Experiences, Needs, and Resiliencies” and will be presented as part of the Trans/Gender-Variant People's Public Health 2 session on Wednesday, November 14, 2018: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in SDCC: 3. Stephanie Creasy received her MPH from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health with a certificate in LGBT Health and Wellness in April 2017. Her master’s level thesis was a mixed-methods study examining the experiences of incarceration and re-entry for transgender women in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. She is now a Project Coordinator in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences for an R01 grant testing the effect of the representative payee program on antiretroviral therapy treatment adherence and rates of viral suppression for people living with HIV. She continues to work on projects focusing on how incarceration and re-entry affect the health and well-being of queer/trans populations.
2018 Grant W. Farmer Award
Grant W Farmer Award for Outstanding Students: We regret to inform you that due to unanticipated circumstances, we will not be selecting a Farmer Awardee this year. We know that there probably some of you who may have encouraged your students to apply, you may have applied yourself. or know someone who did apply. If you submitted an application for 2018, please contact [email protected] and you will receive a free year of caucus membership and your application will be considered next year. Additionally, when we make awards for next year, we will select more than one awardee.
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Come Socialize with Us!
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Updates on our Website and Membership Systems
We've moved! Dear Membership, you may have noticed a few months ago that we have changed website styles. We have kept the same url that you know and love, and surely have bookmarked, but we have updated our website design, and will be continuing to update our website and membership engagement features.
You should have recently received an email LGBT Caucus of Public Health professionals via Wild Apricot regarding updating your membership. This is just one of the cool new features we have from our new web platform. We are also going transition to an automated membership reminder system which will automatically remind you when your renewal is up. You will receive reminders in October for a November 1st renewal. Don't worry if you didn't join the caucus until July 1st or later, you will be good to go until the November of the following year.
We are still working on figuring out a good solution to how we do our mailing list, so some of you may receive email communication twice if you are in both our old and new system. We'd rather catch you twice than not at all, and apologize for the inconvenience.
Member participation! We would love to showcase members photography or graphic design on our website! If you have pictures related to LGBTQ+ communities, Public Health, pictures from APHAs of the past, or beautiful rainbow images that you are willing to share with us to use on the website, we would love to hear from you! Please email them, with how you would like to be cited, to [email protected] . Thank you for sticking with us as we make our site more user friendly and better organized!
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Committee on Health Equity Session
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In Memoriam We are deeply saddened to she attended school in critical perspectives into announce the passing of Malaysia, after which her each of these fields. Dr. Elizabeth Fee on family returned to Belfast. Deeply curious about her October 17, 2018. Dr. Fee There, she came of age institutional base, in 1987 was a remarkable and amidst festering political she published Disease and influential public health and religious violence, Discovery: A History of the historian, whose personal learning firsthand that Johns Hopkins School of and professional history is told and retold Hygiene and Public trajectories led her to speak by protagonists and Health, 1916-1939. In this truth to and about power in witnesses, oppressors and first-ever biography of the public health, past and oppressed. first-ever school of public present. health, Dr. Fee crafted Dr. Fee achieved First what might have been a Born in Northern Ireland in Class Honours at staid institutional history 1946, during the time of Cambridge University in into an engaging and the “Troubles,” to biochemistry and history eyebrow-raising account Irish-Methodist missionary and philosophy of science, that retraces the powerful parents, Liz’s childhood proceeding to earn 2 forces, figures, and brought her into contact Master’s degrees and then ideologies that shaped the with peoples and struggles a doctorate in history of school’s founding and across the globe. At just 5 science (1978) from early trajectory. She weeks of age, she was Princeton University, with revisited this theme in later whisked away by her a dissertation focusing on works, illuminating the parents to civil war-era “Science and the `Woman politics of health training China, where she lost Question,' 1860-1920" as in distinct milieus and hearing in one ear from an analyzed through demonstrating how power untreated bout with scarlet Victorian-era periodicals. was marshalled (and who fever. This turned her into marshalled it) in the an astute reader of people’s From 1974 to 1995 she presumed neutral and behaviors, and later made was a professor at the technocratic domain of her a skilled meeting chair Johns Hopkins School of public health education. (who appeared to be fully Hygiene and Public Health integrating every last (now Bloomberg School), Her early interests in comment while she deftly first in health humanities, feminism, women, and crafted consensus around then international health, science burgeoned into an invariably progressive and finally health policy, several notable works on agenda). In mid-childhood, infusing historical and women, gender, and
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health, including "Women on LGBTQ+ health and Hammerstein-style and Health Care: A well-being. collaboration between Liz Comparison of Theories" and Ted, and between Liz International Journal of In 1990 Dr. Fee took over and other co-authors, were Health Services (1975), editorship of a rather tributes to and the co-edited volume moribund historical section African-American (with Nancy Krieger), of the American Journal of polymath social scientist, Women's Health, Politics, Public Health (AJPH), anti-racism/anti-discrimina and Power: Essays on called “Public Health, tion activist/leader, and Sex\Gender, Medicine, and Then and Now” (which avowed leftist W.E.B. Public Health (1994). had earned the moniker of DuBois; “Public Health, Now and anarchist-revolutionary, Ever attuned to her Then” due to its infrequent free love advocate, and surroundings and the appearance!). Together nurse-midwife Emma historical moment, Liz with Ted Brown –and Goldman; the first US co-edited (with Daniel under the supportive
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award-winning courses on schooled by her artist North American audiences women and health, and mother who pushed her to rather than the reverse. history of public health, precision when naming and into extracurricular particular shades of In the early 1990s, having highlights such as a colors– made her role as long been active in various municipal activism bus public convener of exhibits history of medicine and tour called "Baltimore by and plays all the more apt. health professional Bus: Steering a New Indeed, she oversaw the associations, Dr. Fee Course through the City's resurrection and dramatic helped co-found two History.” expansion of NLM’s crucial organizations that public exhibits with a brought recognition and After influencing countless dynamic team of curators, legitimacy to left-wing students and many covering such topics as activism and scholarship in colleagues over two women leaders in public health history. The decades at Johns Hopkins medicine, “Emotions and Sigerist Circle was (where I was privileged to Disease,” “Dream founded in 1990 by a be her advisee), in 1995 Anatomy,” “The Once and group of medical and Dr. Fee was named Chief Future Web: Worlds public health historians of the History of Medicine Woven by the Telegraph and activists to give special Division (HMD), National and Internet,” and attention to issues of class, Library of Medicine Frankenstein. To ensure an race, and gender, and to (NLM), at the National ample budget for HMD, the use of Marxist, Institutes of Health in Dr. Fee testified on Capitol feminist, postcolonial, and Bethesda, MD, USA. In Hill, navigating related critical 2011, she became the treacherous political waters methodologies in the Chief Historian of the with her enormous mastery analysis of medical NLM, a position she held of language and history. Named for the until her retirement just a spellbinding pioneering history of few months ago. At NLM, Irish-English-North medicine scholar-activist Dr. Fee added leadership American lilt. When Henry Sigerist, the group’s and administrative skills, higher-ups questioned the activities include an annual as well as a talent for inclusion of “revolutionary scholarly session (adjacent engaging with broader Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara” in to the meeting of the publics, to her teaching an exhibit that highlighted American Association for and writing finesse. famous people with the History of Medicine), asthma, Dr. Fee winkingly participation in Liz’s political goal of accepted the directive that contemporary political raising historical Che be characterized affairs, and –before consciousness as a conduit instead as a “freedom listserves and search for societal change, her fighter,” a term that, engines made them love of shows, and sharp ironically, made Guevara redundant– newsletters and eye for the visual –the acceptable to mainstream a periodic bibliography of latter undoubtedly works otherwise difficult
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to locate. Dr. Fee served as affect the public's health. Dr. Fee was the recipient both Vice-President and With the Spirit of 1848’s of numerous honors, President of the Sigerist history committee including Kellogg and Circle in its nascent years, consciously linked to the Fulbright fellowships, the helping to animate events, Sigerist Circle, Liz helped National Library of and mentor and provide infuse historical passions Medicine Regents Award, mutual assistance and and sensibilities into the the Arthur Viseltear Award intellectual stimulation to Spirit of 1848’s various from APHA’s Medical young scholars and other activities around the Care Section, as well as colleagues. Liz and Ted politics of public health. endowed lectures across Brown also co-edited the the world. Her more than monumental volume Those who are long-time 200 articles and chapters Making Medical History: 1848-ers will recall the cover topics as diverse as The Life and Times of Extravaganza held at bioterrorism, sin vs. Henry E. Sigerist (1997), APHA in 1998 science in the racialized bringing additional (Washington, DC), titled treatment of syphilis in credibility to the Sigerist “150 Years of the Spirit of Baltimore, and Circle’s work. 1848: An Evening of popularizing the Politics, Passion, and toothbrush, ever posing the In 1994 Liz helped Public Health.” This question of whether there cofound the Spirit of 1848, marathon 4-hour session is anything to learn from which is a Caucus included participation of history and speaking to affiliated with the multiple progressive both specialists and a American Public Health APHA caucuses and broad public of all ages. Association (APHA) and is sections and the beautiful committed to underscoring voices of Rafiki na Dada, Well aware of her critical and analyzing the integral and culminated in the writings, admirers of Dr. connections between social singing of the Fee’s work at the justice and public health. Internationale. Not only Rockefeller Foundation Both its listserve and its did Liz give a stirring talk and the World Health sessions at the APHA on “The 1848 Movements Organization (WHO) annual meeting are aimed for Socialism and Justice,” invited her in the early at addressing the she corralled the NLM’s 2000s to co-chair the professional, practical, and costume person into history working group of scholarly isolation many bringing along a half dozen the Joint Learning progressives experience – 1848-era outfits—dressing Initiative, an effort to and at working collectively herself in the garb of the analyze international and in dialogue, to time, as well as costuming public health initiatives understand and change a fictional Karl Marx and during the 20th century how social divisions based Olympe de Gouges, among and uncover new insights on social class, others. into their successes and race/ethnicity, gender, failures. This led to her sexual identity, and age involvement in a series of
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articles and a forthcoming endure and continue to co-authored monograph inform the critical (with Marcos Cueto and progressive work of the Ted Brown) examining the many communities of vagaries of global health practitioners, activists, and WHO’s role therein. politicians, and scholars Once again, Liz was vital around the world whose to ensuring that the genre lives Liz touched and of institutional history whose work she inspired. would be transformed into a page-turning narrative of contentious politics, –Anne-Emanuelle personae, and programs Birn, for whom Liz was a spanning WHO’s gem of a comrade, friend, aspirational post-World & mentor War II beginnings, the tensions and turnarounds of the Cold War period, *Dr. Fee’s beloved wife and the embattled and sometime co-author, contemporary era of Mary Garofalo, has asked private encroachment on that donations in honor of WHO turf. Liz be made to the ALS Foundation and to In recent years, despite progressive public health facing multiple health causes across the world. challenges, Liz continued to write prolifically, **A further announcement particularly short pieces and link will be posted with a wide audience in after Dr. Fee’s full mind that shed light on bibliography is compiled often little-known and placed on the Sigerist revolutionary figures and Circle website. movements.
This small snapshot could not possibly capture the scholarly, professional, and personal contributions that Liz made across her lifetime. Without a doubt, the work of Elizabeth Fee, the doyenne of public health historians, will
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