Title: Calling all popular educators!

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Section/SPIG: Occupational Health and Safety

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If you're at the APHA Annual Meeting in San Francisco this year, you can connect with others using this participatory method, sometimes described as "educating for change."

The Occupational Health and Safety Section often sponsors conference discussions and presentations about using popular education and related participatory research methods. However, there are no such sessions this year.

So, an informal group of popular educators, whose work focuses on health and safety issues, plans to meet for several purposes. Suggested goals include discussing:

• what can we organize for next year at APHA?


• what kinds of work are we doing these days?


• what issues do we face, or questions do we have, about this kind of work?


• what materials can we share with others?


• how can we stay in touch?

We will meet on Sunday, Nov. 16, right after the Section business meeting. It likely will end at 10 a.m. You can find out at the business meeting about the location.

At the Sunday meeting, we'll decide if we continue our conversation(s) until 11:30 or noon, or whether we meet later during the Annual Meeting. If we agree to meet later, we'll post notices and try
to reach those who are interested.

For information about the meeting room (in case it's available before November) or to tell us that you want to be part of other conversations, whether or not they take place at this APHA meeting,
please e-mail Dorothy Wigmore, <dorothyw@web.ca>.