Title: Federal Budget, Reproductive Rights, Are Cutting-Edge Topics at P. Ellen Parsons Session
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Section/SPIG: Medical Care
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At the APHA Annual Meeting
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, 2:30-4 p.m.
Cathy Hurwit, chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, and Louise Melling, director of the Center for Liberty at the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, will address the annual P. Ellen Parsons session on Tues. Nov. 1, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. They will address two cutting-edge issues of core concern to public health: how to shore up key social insurance programs including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, in the face of Congressional budget cuts; and how to connect popular support for reproductive choice to policy. Ellen Shaffer, co-director of the Center for Policy Analysis, will moderate for the Medical Care Section. The session is co-sponsored by the Spirit of 1848 Caucus, the Women's Caucus, and the Socialist Caucus, in honor of P. Ellen Parsons, a researcher and advocate who was active in all of these efforts.
The Medical Care Section is also a sponsor of the APHA Trade and Health Forum. On Sunday, Oct. 30, from 2:30 to 4 p.m., the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health will co-sponsor the Forum's business meeting for a special discussion on the U.S. positions on tobacco control, access to medicines and other health issues in global trade negotiations.