Positive Change in Healthcare: Interventions for Sociology, Politics, and Policy

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel brings together scholars working on social problems in healthcare internationally and in the U.S. to discuss ways to reduce inequalities within the healthcare system. Panelists have expertise in racism in health, contemporary U.S. healthcare policy, global health, insurance policy and practices, trans rights, infertility, gender and sexuality in health, and aging and eldercare. Describing and theorizing inequality is often easier for scholars than outlining solutions. But positive social change is possible, and so we reflect on how it has happened and can happen again in organizations, through mobilization, in technologies, and politically.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Session

Presider

• Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Individual Presentations

• Reducing Inequalities in the U.S. Healthcare System through Policy and Practice Interventions - Denise L. Anthony, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Addressing Inequality in Data and Algorithms: Politics, Policies, and Practices - Taylor M Cruz, Northeastern University

• Human Rights Beyond Identity - Tara Marie Gonsalves, Columbia University

• Sticky Rights in Surprising Places: Holding on in Healthcare during Trump 2.0 - Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Equitable Aging in Health across the Life Course: Interventions for LGBTQIA+ Older Adults - Angela Perone, University of California-Berkeley

Session Organizer

• Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor