Please Join Us for the First

Peri-Pandemic Linneando with Liberation Medicine and Doctors for Global Health (DGH)

Friendraiser and Health Promotion Mini-Assembly

November 4 – 7, 2022
Participate In Person in Jamaica Plain, MA or Virtually

November 4, 2022, Friday: 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM – DGH Friendraiser

Brendan Behan Pub, 378 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
No need to RSVP, just come and bring friends!
There will be food, pay as you go drinks and conversation to spark health equity
Suggested donation: $10

November 5, 2022, Saturday: 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM – Convivencia and Mini-General Assembly

Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center (SJPHC)’s Health Promotion Center, 10B Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

(beside SJPHC address 640 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 and across from The Blue Frog Bakery)
In Person and VIRTUAL via zoom — join us for a brief time or for the full Assembly – Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doctors-for-global-health-dghs-convivencia-and-mini-general-assembly-tickets-459420357657
Please write dghinfo@dghonline.org to get Zoom access details
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8:30 AM: Breakfast and Getting to Know One Another

8:45 AM: Introduction to Doctors for Global Health (DGH), Liberation Medicine and Remembering Linnea Capps

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: DGH Community Partner Reports and Inspiration:

El Salvador

Estancia, Morazán: Ramiro Cortez: work with CHW’s in El Salvador

Santa Marta, Cabañas

Mexico

Juan Manuel: Solidarity with Autonomous Communities in Chiapas

Irma Cruz: Accompaniment in Oaxaca

Uganda

Jerry Paccione: Accompaniment with Kisoro’s Communities

11:00 AM: DGH Visioning, Action-Potential

12:00 PM: Video in support of the People of Iran

“Barāye” (For the Sake Of): “Women Life Freedom” by Shervin Hajipour, remembering Mahsa Amini: https://youtu.be/0th9_v-BbUI

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch, Sharing Community

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Community Health Workers, Health Excellence and Social Justice: Experiences and Potential

Patty Medina, MPH: “Community Health Workers Engaged in Cancer Prevention and Treatment”

Hong Chen Cheung, MD, MPH: “Community Health: Systems, Workers and Outcomes”

Jamila Xible, MALD: “Engaging Community Stakeholders to Address Racial and Ethnic Equity: Lessons from the COVID
experience”

Discussion toward respectful, effective Community Engagement

3:00 PM: Linneando en 2022 y 2023 (going forward)

3:30 PM: We Shall Overcome: “Calabaza, Calabaza, todas y todos vamos a nuestra casa (or to your next Social Justice Action Event!)”

6 November 2022, Sunday: 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM – Festival of DGH Muse Brunch

Child and Parent Friendly!
Home of Lanny Smith, DGH Founding President, in Jamaica Plain, MA
Food and Health Equity/Social Justice Conversation with friends, with special guests Joel Wennerstrom (fiddle, banjo) and friends
playing Old Time American and Irish Traditional Music
Please RSVP by writing dghinfo@dghonline.org to get address

November 7, 2022, Monday 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM – APHA National Meeting

Boston Seaport Conference Center, Westin Marina 1:
Session 3207, “IMMIGRANT WOMEN’S HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS,” Socialist Caucus of APHA (SCAPHA)
Moderators: Clyde Lanford Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H and Patty Medina, MPH

Abstract: With the Overturning of Roe vs. Wade, the specter of increasingly limited reproductive justice options has been magnified for
all women but especially undocumented immigrants, whose access to care has been up until now unstudied and undocumented. At the
same time, options for women domestic workers, including those instrumental to the health care industry and to caring for society’s
children, face new challenges and opportunities; and women survivors of Intimate Partner Violence find their way to safe healing
complicated by uncertainty at what might happen to them if they report abuse, including ignorance of their legal protections and other
jeopardy by health professionals. This session explores ways to both work with individual women and with our society to challenge and
change the systemic causes confronting immigrant women’s health and human rights.

2:30 PM: Introduction and Overview

2:35 PM: ‘I’m praying for freedom’: Labor exploitation of undocumented immigrants during pregnancy – Jaya Prakash, MPH, MD
candidate

2:55 PM: Community-driven solutions for health and human rights with domestic workers – Angella Foster and Juliana Morris, MD,
MEd

3:15 PM: Lessons on trauma-informed care for undocumented survivors of intimate partner violence: A liberation medicine approach
– Nisha Cirino, LCSW, MSW and Clyde Lanford Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H

3:25 PM – 4:00 PM: Discussion, Questions and Future Work Together

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Peri-Pandemic Meeting Safety:

In-person interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic implies risk of infection, a risk one must acknowledge and accept when meeting—a risk
we at DGH have finally decided to accept after more than two years meeting only virtually. Several members of our community have some
degree of immunocompromise. Because of that, we request that anyone participating in the above in-person sessions be fully vaccinated and
robustly boosted against COVID-19 (“The life you save might be your own,” by Flannery O’Conner) and—except when eating or when
outside—wear masks.

Connecting and Supporting:

Please connect via the following:

https://www.facebook.com/DoctorsForGlobalHealth/about_details

We welcome your tax-deductible support! Donate to DGH and support our health equity work here:

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Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is a private, not-for-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. DGH is comprised of hundreds of health professionals, students, educators, artists, attorneys, engineers, retirees and others. Together we build long-term relationships between people and communities around the world to find effective solutions to social justice issues. DGH has a unique way of carrying out its mission, focusing on helping to make underserved communities healthy but in the broadest definition of health possible. DGH helps bring Community-Oriented Primary Care to the communities where it works, providing basic health services. DGH believes education is essential to a community’s health, as is economic wellbeing and environmental safety. DGH also promotes human rights, which leads to self-determination, as a fundamental component of health. DGH interweaves the arts into its work, believing the soul
needs nourishing as much as the body. DGH works closely with the communities it accompanies in Participatory Investigation: being invited by the community, working with it to explore its strengths and weaknesses in health, establishing priorities toward better health, developing initiatives to address the chosen priorities and evaluating their success. DGH works side-by-side with community members as partners rather than clients or victims.

Linnea Capps, MD, MPH, [June 19th, 1950- April 19th, 2021] lived a life of humble, fiercely engaged activism, advocacy and service. She lived in Chalatenango, El Salvador, during part of the most violent period [1980’s] of the Armed Civil Conflict and was a long-term member of the War Resisters League (https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-activist-update-linnea-capps-md). She directed the internal medicine residency program of Harlem Hospital (where she had trained) and later the Residency Programs in Primary Care and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Among her many service activities, she served many years as President of Doctors for Global Health, as well as actively volunteering a month yearly for more than a decade in both Chiapas and Uganda. To celebrate and remember her inspiring life, we have a new word: to linnea (a linnear), and we are linneando on 4567 November 2022.

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