Lessons from the Past: Using History & Field Study to Inform Interdisciplinary Health Equity Advocacy

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Marriott St. Louis Grand

Room: Landmark 3

Floor: Ground Floor, Conference Plaza

This concurrent session will discuss methods used in an interdisciplinary experiential learning model that looks at addressing health equity with a critical historical lens. In the Access to Health Care seminar, law and medical students grapple with the successes and failures of the social and political health advocacy of the Civil Rights Movement, while analyzing current trends in health equity advocacy which often unwittingly recreate models from the past. This historical discussion, analysis, and reflection is necessary to research, design, and implement effective health policy advocacy projects with local community and health organizations that can be replicated and scaled. This session is an interactive presentation, where presenters will first discuss the design, and structure of the Access to Health Care experiential learning course, and how it has evolved based on feedback from students, faculty, and community partners, and then open up the floor for reflections, discussion, questions, and information sharing with other participants.