Structural Competency: New Responses To Inequity And Discrimination In Health And Welfare
On November 4, 2016, The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine and members of our Diversity and Health Disparities research cluster hosted a conference in downtown Berkeley. Structural competency is a new framework for understanding and responding to the inequalities that make individuals and populations sick. This framework analyzes institutional and structural hierarchies and discrimination in order to confront the ways these lead to sickness and disease. This conference, the first focused on structural competency in the contexts of public health and social welfare, will bring together national experts and local community organizations to imagine paths toward a more equal and healthy future.
Photos of the conference are available here.
Videos of the conference are available here.
12 – 1:00PM: Structural Competency: Undoing Inequity and Discrimination in Health and Welfare
Introduction: Seth M. Holmes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology and Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC Berkeley
Welcome: Stef Bertozzi, Dean, School of Public Health
Keynote: Helena Hansen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology, New York University. “Structural Competency: Medicine for the Inequalities that Make Us Sick.” www.structuralcompetency.org
1:15 – 2:30PM: Structural Competency for Health Justice
Bruce Link, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, UC Riverside: "Fundamental Causes and Fundamental Interventions for Health"
James Quesada, PhD, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, San Francisco State University: "Structural Vulnerability as a Tool for Health Justice"
Moderator: Denise Herd, PhD, Professor of Public Health and Program Director of Health and Social Behavior, UC Berkeley
2:45 – 3:45PM: Structural Competency for the Future of the Bay Area: Developing structural competency and structural humility trainings
Rad-Med (Critical Social Medicine Working Group). The structural competency training packet is available for a free download at this link.
Kelly Knight, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco; and Faculty Representative, Bridges Curriculum (Social and Behavioral Sciences), UCSF School of Medicine
Nick Nelson, MD, Department of Medicine, Highland Hospital
Shirley Strong, MEd, Chief Diversity Officer, Samuel Merritt University
Moderator: Seth M. Holmes, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology and Co-Chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC Berkeley
4-5:30PM: Structural Humility and Community Justice: Building Solidarity and Engagement
Woods Ervin, Program and Policy Director, TGI Justice Project, a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people—inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom
Solange Gould, MPH, DrPH, Policy Unit Chief, Office of Health Equity, California Department of Public Health
Rupa Marya MD, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine, and Faculty Director, Do No Harm Coalition, a group of over 300 doctors, nurses, faculty, students and staff at UCSF committed to ending racism and state-sanctioned violence.
Chris Nielsen, National Nurses United
Megan Rees, LPCC, Member, Oakland Power Projects; Behavioral Health Clinical Trainer and Volunteer, Anti Police-Terror Project First Responders
Katherine Schaff, MPH, DrPh, Health Equity Coordinator, Alameda County Public Health Department
Moderator: Kurt Organista, PhD, Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
5:30 PM: Thank You: DICE (Diversity, Inclusion, Community, Equity), School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
John Balmes, MD, Director, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
5:30-6:00PM: Networking
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[First Image: Seth Holmes, at a podium at the conference; Second Image: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, at a podium at the conference; Third Image: Audience members during the conference.]
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, School of Public Health, and Samuel Merritt University
Co-sponsored by DICE; Rad Med; Students for Racial justice, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (STRIDE); UCSF Global Health Sciences; School of Social Welfare; Health Equity and Diversity Cluster of the Haas institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
This event is funded by the UCB Graduate Assembly. Open to all and free of charge. Event is ADA accessible. For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact Disability Access Services by phone at 510.643.6456 (voice) or 510.642.6376 (TTY) or by email at accessibility@berkeley.edu.
