Structural competency is a new framework for understanding and responding to the inequalities that make individuals and populations sick. This framework analyzes institutional and structural hierarchies and discrimination in order to confront the ways these lead to sickness and disease. This 2016 conference, the first focused on structural competency in the contexts of public health and social welfare, will bring together national experts and local community organizations to imagine paths toward a more equal and healthy future.
Program
Friday, November 4, 2016
12 – 1:00PM: Structural Competency: Undoing Inequity and Discrimination in Health and Welfare
- Introduction: Seth M. Holmes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology and Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC Berkeley
- Welcome: Stef Bertozzi, Dean, School of Public Health
- Introduction of the Keynote Speaker: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, PhD, Chancellor's Professor and Chair of Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley
- Keynote: Helena Hansen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology, New York University. “Structural Competency: Medicine for the Inequalities that Make Us Sick.” www.structuralcompetency.org
1:15 – 2:30PM: Structural Competency for Health Justice
- Bruce Link, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, UC Riverside: "Fundamental Causes and Fundamental Interventions for Health"
- James Quesada, PhD, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, San Francisco State University: "Structural Vulnerability as a Tool for Health Justice"
- Moderator: Denise Herd, PhD, Professor of Public Health and Program Director of Health and Social Behavior, UC Berkeley
2:45 – 3:45PM: Structural Competency for the Future of the Bay Area: Developing structural competency and structural humility trainings
- Rad-Med (Critical Social Medicine Working Group). The structural competency training packet is available for a free download at this link.
- Kelly Knight, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco; and Faculty Representative, Bridges Curriculum (Social and Behavioral Sciences), UCSF School of Medicine
- Nick Nelson, MD, Department of Medicine, Highland Hospital
- Shirley Strong, MEd, Chief Diversity Officer, Samuel Merritt University
- Moderator: Seth M. Holmes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology and Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC Berkeley
4-5:30PM: Structural Humility and Community Justice: Building Solidarity and Engagement
A brief guide to the organizations is available for download at this link.
- Robbie Clark, Lead Organizer, Causa Justa :: Just Cause, and Member, Black Lives Matter Bay Area; Twitter: @love4liberation
- Woods Ervin, Program and Policy Director, TGI Justice Project, a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom
- Solange Gould, MPH, DrPH, Policy Unit Chief, Office of Health Equity, California Department of Public Health
- Rupa Marya MD, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine, and Faculty Director, Do No Harm Coalition, a group of over 300 doctors, nurses, faculty, students and staff at UCSF committed to ending racism and state-sanctioned violence.
- Chris Nielsen, National Nurses United
- Megan Rees, LPCC, Member, Oakland Power Projects; Behavioral Health Clinical Trainer and Volunteer, Anti Police-Terror Project First Responders
- Katherine Schaff, MPH, DrPh, Health Equity Coordinator, Alameda County Public Health Department
- Moderator: Kurt Organista, PhD, Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
Thank You
- DICE (Diversity, Inclusion, Community, Equity), School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
- John Balmes, MD, Director, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
5:30-6:00PM: Networking
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, School of Public Health, and Samuel Merritt University
Co-sponsored by DICE; Rad Med; Students for Racial justice, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (STRIDE); UCSF Global Health Sciences; School of Social Welfare; Health Equity and Diversity Cluster of the Haas institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
This event was also funded by the UCB Graduate Assembly.
