SSSP Health, Health Policy, & Health Services Division 
Agenda and Minutes for Informal, Virtual Division Meeting 
2:00 p.m. EST June 6, 2023
Zoom link: https://nsu-edu.zoom.us/j/91071963365?pwd=SFVjMG1XaHNoa0szS0ZmMVVNNHJtUT09
Meeting ID: 910 7196 3365 Passcode: 682344
In attendance: Yuying Shen, Virginia (Ginger) Berndt, Rebecca Amin, Barbara Katz-Rothman, Donalee Unal, Hannah (Jane Upson?)
Call to Order: 2:03pm EST

1) Announcements – no new announcements
2) Recognition of Division Members 
• Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, outgoing Division Co-Chair
• Virginia Kuulei Berndt, incoming Division Co-Chair (2023-2025) 
• William Cabin and Barbara Katz Rothman, 2023 Outstanding Scholarship Award Winners
• We recognized and congratulated these division members and award winners

3) Nominations for Division Positions 
• Graduate Student Paper Award Committee members 
• Outstanding Scholarship Award Committee members 
• Newsletter editor 
• Co-Chair to begin in August 2024 (2024-2026 term) – nominations accepted through November 2023
• Yuying and Ginger told attendees about these committees and the duties involved

4) 2023 Annual Meeting Updates 
* Shared information about (co)sponsored sessions and Division business meeting

5) 2024 Annual Meeting Planning 
• Discussion of sole- and co-sponsored sessions for 2024 meeting. We all discussed ideas for potential sessions for the 2024 meeting, including the following: 
o Constraints on bodily autonomy in health – the impacts of state and state agents (Ginger)
o Long-term consequences of COVID response (Barbara Katz-Rothman)
o Community participatory research in improving health and healthcare (Yuying)
o Leisure and health (Ginger)
o Mental health services and autonomy in the carceral state (Hannah)
o Psychedelics and inequalities (Donalee)
o Aging and migration (Rebecca)
• Call for volunteers to organize sessions 

6) Review of 2024 Division budget 
* An attendee suggested that we rethink awarding the honorarium for the Outstanding Scholarship Award, as this award is often given to senior academics who then give the honorarium back to SSSP. The attendee noted that if we forego the honorarium, we can use it elsewhere in a way that benefits the division (since, when donated back to SSSP, the Health division no longer has control over the funds). We briefly discussed the possibility of giving it to the Graduate Student Paper award honorarium or to the reception fund
7) Other Business
* Yuying encouraged members to consider self-nominating for the incoming Division Co-Chair position and to consider organizing a session for next year’s annual meeting
* Barbara encouraged attendees to respond to the Mentoring Committee request, as mentoring is one of the hallmarks of SSSP.
* Ginger briefly brought up participation in the upcoming resolutions on reaffirming our commitment to transgender and nonbinary healthcare. Since resolutions not yet approved, we told members to consider whether they would want to participate in emailing state legislators and other institutional representatives.
Meeting Adjourned: 2:55pm