SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS: HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION NEWSLETTER FALL/WINTER 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS AND AWARD SUBMISSIONS Check out our proposed (co)sponsored sessions for SSSP 2024 in this newsletter! Submit your extended abstract. We are accepting submissions for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award and Outstanding Scholarship Award! MESSAGE FROM THE CO-CHAIRS: DR. YUYING SHEN As we near the end of 2023, we find ourselves on the cusp of a new year filled with hope and anticipation. The conclusion of this year also marks the completion of the planning and preparation for the SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting. Reflecting on the successes of our Division at the 2023 Annual Meeting, the invaluable connections established and knowledge shared, we are inspired to embark on the next steps in our collective project. With ten sessions already being proposed, I am excited about the potential for another triumphant chapter for our Division at the 2024 annual meeting. It is my heartfelt wish to meet each of you in Montreal, where we can further acquaint ourselves, learn from one another, and exchange our perspectives on various aspects of health and healthcare. MESSAGE FROM THE CO-CHAIRS: DR. VIRGINIA KUULEI BERNDT During my first year as Co-Chair of SSSP’s Division of Health, Health Services, and Health Policy, I’ve had the honor of corresponding with many stellar division members! SSSP 2023 was a resounding success! We sponsored and co-sponsored nine excellent sessions. Our proposed sessions for SSSP 2024 center on topics of mental health, medical violence, indigenous health, psychedelics, reproductive justice, and more. We also hope you will consider submitting a paper to our Graduate Student Paper competition or Outstanding Scholarship Award. Best wishes to all for a happy new year! HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION SESSIONS FOR THE 2024 ANNUAL MEETING SOLE SPONSORED SESSIONS 1. Psychedelics & Inequalities (Regular Paper Session) Session Organizers: Donalee Unal & Katherine Baltazar 2. Indigenous Health and Tribal Sovereignty (Critical Dialogue Session) Session Organizer: Donalee Unal 3. Bodily Autonomy and Health (Papers in the Round Session) Session Organizer: Virginia Kuulei Berndt CO-SPONSORED SESSIONS 1. Alternatives to Policing: Community-Based Responses to Behavioral Health, Substance Misuse, & Violence (Regular Paper Session) Session Organizers: Keisha Muia & Paul Draus 2. Reproductive Justice (Regular Paper Session) Session Organizer: Angie Mejia Medina 3. Bodies for Sale: Use of Humans and Animals for Entertainment (Regular Paper Session) Session Organizer: Michael O. Johnston 4. Global Health, Climate, Inequality, & Environment (Regular Paper Session) Session Organizer: Clare Cannon 5. Social Organization of Medical Violence (Regular Paper Session) Session Organizer: Kathryn Nowotny 6. Structural Determinants of Health & the Law (Regular Paper Session) Session Organizer: Clare Cannon 7. Changing Impact of Technologies on Mental Health (Critical Dialogue) Session Organizers: Yuying Shen & Doug Engelman THANK YOU TO OUR CO-SPONSORING DIVISIONS! SSSP'S DIVISION OF HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES THANKS THE DIVISIONS THAT ARE CO-SPONSORING SESSIONS FOR THE 2024 ANNUAL MEETING: Community Research & Development Drinking and Drugs Environment & Technology Gender Global Institutional Ethnography Law and Society Mental Health & Society Poverty, Class, & Inequality Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Sociology & Social Welfare Sport, Leisure, and the Body SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting Location: Le Centre Sheraton Montréal Hotel (Montréal, Canada) HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, & HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION MEMBERS ON THE JOB MARKET Sean M. Viña Sean M. Viña, PhD, is currently on the job market. Dr. Viña’s area of research is in health inequality and stigma. Sean’s current scholarship examines diminishing health returns and policy on psychedelics. He is building a project around this topic that seeks to understand and advocate a culturally centered approach to psychedelics, rather than the clinical psychiatry approach being monopolized by current research policy. Dr. Viña also recently published a book, “Health and Inequality in Standup Comedy: Stories that Challenge Stigma” (Lexington Press) and has had numerous academic journal publications in 2023. Maria O'Leary Maria O’Leary is ABD at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Maria is defending her dissertation, titled “What’s Choice Got to Do with It? An institutional Ethnography of Abortion Access in New Brunswick Canada” in January 2024. Maria’s dissertation uses a reproductive justice framework to understand how access to abortion is organized in a province that has some of the worst access to abortion in Canada. Maria is extremely interested in pursuing a post-doctoral fellowship in the United States, as part of her doctoral work examines the current state of access in the United States, and how there are similarities to the current legislation in Canada. Maria is extremely passionate about reproductive health and rights and wants to continue doing research that can positively impact access to reproductive healthcare. HEALTH, HEALTH POLICY, AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION MEMBER UPDATES Job Postings: Postdoctoral T32 Fellowship in Translational Science, HIV, and Sexual and Gender Minority Health at Northwestern University's Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Recruitment and Retention Core Director, Clinical Research Associate/Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Assistant/Associate Professor, Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health Program at Northwestern University in both the Department of Urology and the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. MEDIA APPEARANCES: Virginia Kuulei Berndt Discusses her new book, Body Art, on the New Books in Sociology podcast Discusses her new book, Body Art, with Texas A&M International University Sean Viña Interviewed by the TPR podcast about his book, Health & Inequality in Standup Comedy Has a forthcoming policy review piece in Contexts magazine on psychedelics, inequality, and social policy PUBLICATIONS: Virginia Kuulei Berndt Berndt, Virginia Kuulei and Ann V. Bell. 2023. “Beyond knowledge: Introducing Embodied Aversion through the case of contraception.” Online First at Social Science & Medicine. Neumann, Pamela, Virginia Kuulei Berndt, and Ashley Grajeda. 2023. “Shifting social support: Mexican-American women’s navigation of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Online First at Social Currents. Brown, Brian and Virginia Kuulei Berndt. 2023. Body Art (Arts for Health). Emerald Publishing Bill Cabin Cabin, William. 2023. "'They Are Measures Without Impact': Home Care Social Workers Criticize OASIS-E." Home Health Care Management and Practice 35(4): 271-276. Cabin, William. 2023. “’They Are Lost Souls’: Medicare Home Care Nurses’ Perceptions of Medicare’s Inadequate Coverage of Homebound Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease. Online First at Home Health Care Management and Practice Erica Jablonski Jablonski, Erica S., Chris R. Surfus, & Megan Henly. 2023. “Full-Time Caregiving During COVID-19 Based on Minority Identifications, Generation, and Vaccination Status.” In Social Factors, Health Care Inequities and Vaccination 40: 43-64. Elizabeth Joniak-Grant Joniak-Grant, Elizabeth, Natalie A. Blackburn, Nabarun Dasgupta, Maryalice Nocera, Samantha Wooten Dorris, Paul R. Chelminski, Timothy S. Carey, & Shabbar I. Ranapurwala. 2023. “‘Cookbook medicine’: Exploring the Impact of Opioid Prescribing Limits Legislation on Clinical Practice and Patient Experiences.” SSM- Qualitative Research in Health 3: 100273. Donalee Unal Unal, Donalee. 2023. “Indigenizing the Social Work Curriculum: Why It Matters and How to Start?” Pp. 87-107 in Indigenization Discourse in Social Work by Koustab Majumdar, Rajendra Maikady, and Ashok Antony D’Souza, eds. New York: Springer. Sean Viña Viña, Sean M. 2023. Heath and Inequality In Standup Comedy: Stories that Challenge Stigma. Lexington Press. Viña, Sean M. & Amanda L. Stephens. 2023. "Minorities’ Diminished Psychedelics Returns.” Drug Science, Policy and Law. 9(January-December). Viña, Sean & Amanda Stephens. 2023. "Psychedelics and Workplace Harm.” Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14: 1186541. Viña, Sean. Forthcoming. "Diminished Psychedelics Returns: Marital Status and Household Size” Accepted for Publication at Plos One. Viña, Sean. Forthcoming. “Minorities Diminished Psychedelic Returns: Cardio-Metabolic Health.” Journal of Drugs Science, Law, and Policy. alithia zamantakis zamantakis, alithia. 2023. Thinking Cis: Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence. Rowman & Littlefield. Mustanski, Brian, Artur Queiroz, James Merle, alithia zamantakis, Juan Pablo Zapata, Dennis H. Li, Nanette Benbow, Maria Pyra, & Justin D. Smith. 2023. “A Systematic Review of Implementation Research on Determinants and Strategies of Effective HIV Interventions for Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States.” Annual Review of Psychology. Zapata, Juan Pablo, alithia zamantakis, & Artur Acelino Francisco Luz Nunes Queiroz. 2023. “Identification of Determinants and Implementation Strategies to Increase Long-Acting Injectable PrEP for HIV Prevention Among Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM).” Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Zapata, Juan Pablo, Andrew E. Petroll, Katherine G. Quinn, alithia zamantakis, & Steven A. John. 2023. “Implementation determinants of HIV Self-Testing among young sexual minority men.” Archives of Public Health 81(1): 113. Queiroz, Artur Acelino Francisco Luz Nunes, Álvaro Francisco Lopesde Sousa, & Anderson Reis de Sousa. 2023. “Sexuality ‘in apps’? Older men who have sex with men and their use of dating apps in Brazil.” Po. 69-87 in Ageing, Men and Social Relations by Paul Willis, Ilkka Pietilä, and Marjaana Seppänen. Policy Press. RESEARCH Jason A. Smith Jason A. Smith, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, served as a member of the Health Equity Workgroup for the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) this past summer (May-July 2023). The workgroup focused on improving inclusivity measures for the Patient Assessment Survey – a patient experience survey tool delivered to over 100 healthcare provider organizations. Special attention centered on Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity (SOGI). WANT TO BE FEATURED IN OUR NEXT NEWSLETTER? EMAIL VIRGINIA KUULEI BERNDT WITH YOUR UPDATES! (VIRGINIA.BERNDT@TAMIU.EDU)