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From:   Emily Wentzell <wentzell@UMICH.EDU>
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From: Mark Nichter
Subject: Critical Anthro of Global Health (CAGH) SIG at AAAs

Greetings all,

The AAA meetings in Philadelphia are fast approaching, and in order to
make our limited time together at the CAGH meeting efficient and
productive, we've pulled together some information and a proposed
agenda for the meeting - so that some of the past news and upcoming
discussion can take place in advance of the meeting.
2-089 - CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL HEALTH STUDY GROUP

Date/Time: Fri., 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom Salon IV, 1st Floor Courtyard Marriott

We have had a number of successes working within the SMA Takes a Stand
framework, but we need to discuss the next topic to consider for the
upcoming year.

Previous Workgroup (Global Health): This CAGH statement (published in
Dec 08 MAQ) is one of the 15 most downloaded articles on Anthrosource
- demonstrating that this process helps get our ideas and work out to
a larger audience, beyond medical anthropologists.  This is promising,
because one of our goals is to be more than change agents within our
own community, but to engage a larger audience with what we have to
offer as medical anthropologists.

Current Workgroup (Immigration and Health): The current statement is
under comment by the general SMA membership as part of the Takes A
Stand process - be sure to head to the SMA site to log your comments
and suggestions if you have not done so already.  Sarah Willen (and
Heide Casteneda) will give us an update on the process at the CAGH
meeting, and they are planning to assemble during/after the CAGH
meeting to focus on continuing the dialogue that has taken place so
far.  Also, be sure to check out their invited session at the AAAs,
which (conveniently) meets just before the CAGH meeting.
2-032 - DO "ILLEGAL" MIGRANTS HAVE A RIGHT TO HEALTH? TOWARD A
CRITICAL MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF UNAUTHORIZED MIGRATION AND HEALTH

Session Date/Time: Fri., 8:00 AM-11:45 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom Salon E, 5th Floor, Philadelphia Marriott
Organizer(s): HEIDE CASTANEDA & SARAH WILLEN

Next Workgroup:  We need to decide on our next topic, but rather than
spend valuable meeting time discussing possible topics (there are
many), we will use the time between now and the AAAs to focus on a
shortlist of potential topics, so we arrive at the meeting ready to
discuss specific topics.  One idea that was brought up at the last
meeting (both in our meeting, and in Carolyn Sargent's address), was
to take a closer look insurance and health care, which has proven to
be an incredibly relevant topic, given the current situation of health
care reform.  Our discussion at the last meeting included the need for
ethnographies focused on insurance and that include stakeholders
views, political economy, health care reform debates, and how people
are looking both nationally and internationally at different models of
health care delivery.

There were other excellent ideas, and I propose that anyone who has an
idea they think the group should consider AND that they are interested
in taking some degree of responsibility for, should email them to the
Ben McMahan (SMA webmaster, also a member of our group) at
bmcmahan@email.arizona.edu with the subject line "CAGH meeting
discussion idea" ASAP.  He'll compile the responses and send out a
digest in advance of the meeting, and bring paper copies (of the
digest).  At the meeting, we'll structure our time, and have short 5
minute discussions on each topic, before deciding to move forward.

Re: the meeting - the agenda includes the following

Meet members with brief introductions
A report from the immigration and health workgroup on their current
statement (this group can serve as an exemplar of how the process can
produce a specific product - i.e. the statement, as well as to
encourage continued dialogue on a relevant topic)
A report on the Virchow Award winners
A discussion of the Web site and how it can facilitate dialogue and
outreach in between our meetings.  The immigration group is developing
a interactive blog/network focused on their topic, and we plan to
aggregate theirs and other sub-group's discussions on the CAGH (SMA)
site.
A discussion of all the proposed topics for the next statement (5 min
each), and a decision on the next topic the CAGH group will work on
for the SMA Takes A Stand process.

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