Officers:

• Pam Anzicek, Chair
• Andrea Agboka RN, MPH- Chair Elect
• Lynn McDaniels, Secretary
• Crystal Hepburn, Treasurer & Member –at- Large
• David Roth DrPH, BSN, RN- Member –at- Large
• Teresa Wehrwein PhD,RN, NEA-BC, ANEF- Member –at- Large
• Belinda Aberie MSN, RN-Member –at- Large
• Michelle Klein, MA, BSN, RN, PHC- Member –at- Large
• Jaclyn Badger RN, BSN-Member –at- Large
• Becky Johnson Himes DNP, RN- Nominations Commitee
• Naomi E. Ervin, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC-Retired, FNAP, FAAN- Nominations Commitee

2023-2024 PHN Section Committee Members

Program Committee Members: Joan Bickes, Crystal Hepburn, Lynn McDaniels, Sue Harrington, Sandy Walls, Judi Fouladbaksksh, Naomi Ervin, Pam Ancizek

Academic Partnership Committee Members: Suzanne Keep, Joanne Goldbort, Joanne Hogenson, Peggy Hamel

Membership Committee Members: Crystal Hepburn, Andrea Agboka, Lynn McDaniels

Awards Committee Members: Terry Wehrwein, Michelle Klein

Book Club Event(s)

The next PHN Section Book Discussion will be on Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Arline T. Geronimus on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 6-7pm.  

The MPHA PHN Section is now offering (free) one Continuing Education credit for participation on our Book Club Discussions. **In addition, the discussion meets state of Michigan content criteria for one contact hour of implicit bias credit** We hope to see you for the discussion of this wonderful book!  

The PHN Section can provide a limited number of copies of this acclaimed book to participants interested in joining us for this discussion.  If interested in obtaining a copy of this book and joining the online discussion, please respond to Lynn McDaniels (mcdanieLsL@hotmail.com) as requests will be honored as they are received. If you have received a free book from us in the past, we would still love for you to join us, but we would ask you to defer requesting a free book so we may provide this benefit to those who may be joining us and have not been able to receive a free book.

From the Amazon website:

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, “monumental” book (Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning) exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people.

America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic injustice takes a physical, too often deadly, toll on Black, brown, working class and poor communities, and any group who experiences systemic cultural oppression or economic exploitation. Marginalized Americans are disproportionately more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and to die at much younger ages than their middle- and upper-class white counterparts. Black mothers die during childbirth at a rate three times higher than white mothers. White kids in high-poverty Appalachian regions have a healthy life expectancy of 50 years old, while the vast majority of US youth can expect to both survive and be able-bodied at 50, with decades of healthy life expectancy ahead of them. In the face of such clear inequity, we must ask ourselves why this is, and what we can we do.
 
Dr. Arline T. Geronimus coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of systemic oppression—including racism and classism—on the body. In Weathering, based on more than 30 years of research, she argues that health and aging have more to do with how society treats us than how well we take care of ourselves. She explains what happens to human bodies as they attempt to withstand and overcome the challenges and insults that society leverages at them, and details how this process ravages their health. And she proposes solutions.
 
Until now, there has been little discussion about the insidious effects of social injustice on the body. Weathering shifts the paradigm, shining a light on the topic and offering a roadmap for hope.

You do NOT need to have read the book to join! FREE & ONLINE. No registration required!

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