News And Announcements

PHM USA Supports Occupy Wall Street Protests

People’s Health Movement (PHM) in the United States stands with the ongoing Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and related protests in New York  and cities around the world. We urge people affiliated with PHM to participate in this movement to overcome ill-health caused by social, political and economic systems that reproduce inequality and social injustice -  what we call the social determinants of health.

PHM EE.UU. Movilización por la Asamblea de la Salud del los Pueblos

PHM EE.UU. tiene una doble misión: trabajar para la salud para todos en los Estados Unidos, donde la gran desigualdad socioeconómica causa terribles disparidades en la salud y muchos otros problemas sociales; y al mismo tiempo abogar por justicia en las políticas del gobierno de EE.UU. y en las corporaciones multinacionales con sede en EE.UU., muchas de las cuales socavan la salud de todo el mundo. Algunos de los impactos más devastadores debido a:

First PHM USA national in-person meeting comes up with lots of work to do!

28 People’s Health Movement activists participated in the 1st PHM USA National Meeting held July 28th and 29th in Los Angeles. We discussed what PHM is and what it means to endorse the People’s Charter for Health and to be a part of the movement. Drawing upon the results of the membership survey conducted before the meeting, and attendees’ current political work, we developed four issue areas in which PHM US will focus its domestic movement building activities.
 

PHM USA Mobilization for the People's Health Assembly

PHM USA has a double mission: working for health for all in the United States, where great socioeconomic inequality causes terrible disparities in health status and many social problems; and at the same time advocating for fairness in the policies of the US government and US based multinational corporations, many of which undermine health around the world. Some of the most devastating impacts are due to:

Doctors for Global Health 16th Annual General Assembly, July 29-31, 2011

Dear friends of Doctors for Global Health,

Our 16th Annual General Assembly will be held this summer in sunny Los Angeles from July 29th to 31st!

Continuing Medical Education Credits (CME) available for physicians- see registration page for details.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

If you have not yet registered, click the link below:

http://www.dghonline.org/2011-ga-registration-application

COMMUNITY ACTION FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE:

Health Begins Where We Work, Live, and Play

Doctors for Global Health 16th Annual General Assembly

IPHU-Bronx, USA: "Movement Building through Action for Health", 4-12 June 2011

International People’s Health University (IPHU) of the People’s Health Movement (PHM) and Social Medicine Journal, PHM-USA Circle, Social Medicine Journal present "Movement Building through Action for Health", a short course for health activists June 4 – 12, 2011 in Bronx, NY, USA for English or Spanish speakers.

Register for PHM_USA First National Meeting, July 28-29, 2011

The first People’s Health Movement USA National Meeting will be held July 28-29, 2011, at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles CA, in conjunction with the annual assembly of Doctors for Global Health. We invite those who endorse the People’s Carter for Health to participate in identifying our medium-term goals and developing a plan to reach them. This is an opportunity for you to get more involved with the international movement that has set the people’s agenda for global health for the last 12 years.

PHM-US Update, February 2010

Save the Date: Doctors for Global Health General Assembly
Atlanta, GA, August 6-8
We are considering having a PHM meeting on the day before or after the DGH Assembly. If you would come to such an event, or would like to help organize it, please let us know at phm@hesperian.org.

Health and Human Rights Learning Circle

Health and Human Rights Learning Circle Launches in Bay Area

Inspired by the success of the First Annual South Los Angeles Health and Human Rights Conference last June, PHM-US  is helping to launch a Bay Area health and human rights learning circle. We will meet for several months to use articles, personal experience, and other forms of media to learn more about the health and human rights approach, hoping to build and strengthen a community of allies.

PHM-US Editorial featured on cover of The Lancet

Lancet journal coverThe latest issue of The Lancet features the editorial below, written by members of PHM-US.

People's Health Movement-USA Update

In this Update:

  1. PHM at the 1st Annual South Los Angeles Convention on Health and Human Rights
  2. Doctors for Global Health Annual Assembly
  3. Summit of Progressive Physicians Organizations  
  4. PHM Global news: PHA3 task force
  5. Upcoming International People’s Health University short courses
  6. DC Advocacy Circle
  7. New PHM USA Coordination group convenors and members
  8. American Public Health Association
  9. Trade and Health working group meets with US Trade Representative
  10. US Social Forum
  11. NEW PHM related publications, websites, media

Health and Human Rights Conference in South LA

The Crisis of Health and Human Rights in South L.A: Leveraging Lessons and Getting Results in South LA and Beyond

As the movement for health and human rights advances, its local, national, and international fronts have an unprecedented opportunity to share lessons and leverage resources towards a common purpose: marked and measurable improvements in the health and well-being of children, adolescents and families. In south Los Angeles and beyond, the challenge for health and human rights advocates is not about whether we work together to seize this opportunity to achieve results, but about how.

Moving Progressive NGO Advocacy to the Next Level

People’s Health Movement USA invites you to:

Moving Progressive NGO Advocacy to the Next Level
May 27, 2009, 6pm
Meet in the lobby off the main entrance the Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert St NW
Washington, DC 20008
The hotel is one block from Woodley Park/Zoo/Adams Morgan stop on the Metro Red Line

With the collapse of the neoliberal economic model, the new administration in Washington, and increase attention to comprehensive primary health care and the social determinants of health, progressive NGOs working on health issues must take advantage of the space for action.

Richmond, CA Activists meet Bhopal Survivors

On May 26, in the shadow of Chevron’s Richmond Refinery, survivors of the Union Carbide toxic disaster in Bhopal, India met with Richmond residents from the Laotian and African American communities. The People’s Health Movement (PHM-US) and Hesperian brought these geographically distant groups together to share experiences around their closely related struggles for health and justice against corporate pollution. 

 

Two DC Events on the Role of the Private Sector

DC Debate This past week, the People’s Health Movement and Oxfam International participated in two Washington, DC events focusing on how beltway institutions like the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank), USAID, etc., promote involvement of the private sector as the key to scaling up health care. The occasion was the release of the Oxfam briefing paper Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries and PHM’s Global Health Watch 2.

 

U.S.: Help Launch the Global Health Watch 2!

People’s Health Movement USA will be launching the Global Health Watch in several US cities this winter. Launches are currently being planned for Washington, D.C., Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Iowa City, and Madison, WI. GHW Launch at APHA