What can health promotion learn from other social movements?

Objective:
To learn from the experiences of other social movements to enable health promoters to be more effective in affecting social and cultural change.

Key messages / key questions:
How have other social movements organized themselves effectively? What strategies have been useful? Panelists will discuss stories, examples and answer questions from their personal experience.

Specific questions:

• How did your social movement begin?
• How have you been able to affect change in relation to community development or public policy?
• How have you brought your work to the attention of policy makers?
• How is organizing people different in low-income versus high-income countries?
• What mistakes have you made that you have learned from?
• What is the best way for this audience to get involved?

Links to conference theme:
This topic connects many of the conference themes. The main question is most directly linked to the Social and Cultural Change theme: How have other social movements affected social and cultural change? However, it is also about capacity building among health promotion professionals; linking practice, research and policy; building partnerships: and participatory governance. 

Innovative Format:
Audience questions will be welcomed via in-person audience participation, twitter, text message and paper entries. ISECN committee members will read out questions submitted in any of the text formats in a rotation with verbal audience questions. 

Chair:

• Ms. Hope Corbin, Research Fellow, Research Centre for Health Promotion, Department of Education and Health Promotion University of Bergen, Norway

Moderator:

• Prof. Maurice Mittelmark, Institute for Education and Health Promotion, Bergen, Norway

Panel members:

• Mirai Chatterjee, Coordinator SEWA Social Society, Ahmedabad, India
• Prof. Fran Baum (People's Health Movement), Director Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia
• Dr. Erma Manoncourt, UNICEF, Cairo, Egypt
• Dr. Kalpana Sharma, Independent Journalist/Columnist, Board Member of the Society for Area Resource Centres (SPARC), India
• Prof. Lyuba Zarsky, Associate Professor, International Environmental Policy Program, Monterey Institute of International Studies. Berkeley, USA