Dear CAGH, Just a friendly reminder of our annual board meeting this year in Denver. Hope to see you all there! Very important that you be there to elect a new chair for the upcoming year. – Rachel Chapman
Session Title: | CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL HEALTH STUDY GROUP OPEN BUSINESS MEETING |
Session Type: | Board Meeting |
Scheduled Date: | Saturday, November 21, 2015 |
Scheduled Time: | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM |
Place: | 111 Colorado Convention Center |
1. Review and revise agenda and annual report
2. Nominations for New Chair or Co-Chairs for 2016
3. Virchow awards:
a. Thanking Alexa Deitrich for exceptional job, volunteers for co-chair(s)?
b. Volunteers for Virchow article review panels sign up
c. Approve continued monetary prize for student winners 2016?
4. Updates from ongoing Public Outreach projects and plans for 2015-2016 (e-health, immigration, insurance, teaching global health)
a. Public Policy Outreach on Austerity
– Request for comments on statement and bibliography
– Solicit contributions to edited volume
b. Proposals for new TAS reviews, policy statements or other action groups
– Ebola
– Global Health at Gunpoint: Militarization and Occupation of African Life – The End of AIDS
– Refugees, Health and the EU
– black lives matter
c. Volunteer to write COPP Anth Newsletter e-column on CAGH TAS
5. Propose 2016 SMA – sponsored Invited Roundtable on Teaching Global Health
6. Volunteers to work with Amy Dao for Sub-Committee on E-CAGH (updating website and improving Word Press Site, developing social media presence and improving membership communication)
a. “CAGH in the News” feature members suggestions?
b. Volunteer CAGH web assistance:
– CAGH Webmaster: Amy Dao amylm.dao@gmail.com
– SMA Webmaster: Sean Bruna-Lewis webmaster@medanthro.ne
SIG’s activities for 2015
- Virchow Awards Competition and Vote to initiate monetary prize for student Virchow Awardee in 2015
- Public Outreach Projects
- Ongoing: e-health, immigration, insurance, teaching global health, austerity
- Megan Carney coordinatingTakes a Stand sub-committee, draft statement and bibliography on austerity
- James Pfeiffer and Rachel Chapman organized CAGH 2015 AAA panel on Austerity
- Tanja Ahlin and Mark Nichter complete E-Health Policy Outreach Statement
- New TAS focus areas or sub-committees
- Global Health at Gunpoint: Militarization and Occupation of African Life from Mali to Missouri (Chapman SMA Column in progress)
- Ebola
- Cultural Competence
- – “End of AIDS”
- Participation in proposal for SIG sponsored Roundtable on “Black Lives, Black Health Matters”
- Update CAGH website and CAGH SMA website presence
- Amy Dao working on E-CAGH (updating website and improving Word Press Site)
- Initiation of CAGH in the News feature
- CAGH support for AAA reactivating Congressional Fellow Program approved
Planned activities during 2016:
- Election of new Chair at 2015 business meeting
- Continuation of above activities and open call for any new ideas and activities of members at business meeting.