How Can Sociology Disrupt the Status Quo in U.S. Health Policy?

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

Under the current presidential administration, we have seen significant threats to healthcare access, public health, and health promoting social policies in the U.S. Despite our discipline’s theoretical frameworks and methodological tools, sociologists have often ceded health policy leadership opportunities to adjacent fields. This session asks: How can sociologists more meaningfully impact health policy? What core sociological insights can animate research agendas to disrupt the status quo in health policy? How can we position existing scholarship and produce new knowledge to meet this political moment? This panel will feature scholars working across multiple areas to invite a conversation on how our discipline can catalyze change in health policy.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Emily Parker, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Panelists

• Tiffany D. Joseph, Northeastern University

• Jennifer Karas Montez, Syracuse University

• Josh Pacewicz, Brown University

• Megan M. Reynolds, University of Utah

Discussant

• Sorcha A. Brophy, Columbia University

Session Organizers

• Emily Parker, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

• Sorcha A. Brophy, Columbia University