CONAA invites members and non-members to submit their abstracts for papers for CONAA sponsored sessions at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting 2024 https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting. CONAA welcomes submissions on a variety of topics of interest to our membership. For more information on CONAA’s mission, goals, and research interests, see https://www.conaa.org/. Contributors are invited to share their efforts and experiences to transform nursing, health care, or social science in relation to those historically excluded in terms of class, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual identity, and ability, among others. We invite submissions of 1) volunteered paper abstracts, 2) organized session abstracts, or, 3) paper abstracts fitting the following two planned sessions:
This session focuses on the intersections of social justice and health equity for diverse population groups facing structural barriers to health, well-being, and access to healthcare services. Examples include community-based practice, health promotion initiatives, and nursing interventions with diverse populations in rural or urban settings worldwide. Papers may address the experiences of vulnerable populations (also called equity-deserving groups) and people facing structural barriers. Papers on health promotion projects or nursing interventions involving populations or groups with limited access to resources and the social determinants of health that foster health and well-being are encouraged. Papers might explore issues of social justice and health equity related to health care systems and health care professionals.
This session focuses on the impacts and intersections of cultural contexts, identities, knowledge, and practices with health professional practice, education of health professionals, and healthcare systems. Papers will be of interest to nurses, nurse-anthropologists, physicians, allied health professionals, anthropologists and other health social scientists interested in scholarly and evidence-based practice initiatives. Example paper topics include, but are not limited to: cultural safety, humility, and/or competence; traditional methods of healing and health promotion; experiences of Indigenous patients or Indigenous health professionals with health care services and education; etc.
Papers that do not fit these two sessions are welcome and will be grouped together in additional themed sessions. Potential presenters might also be inspired by the SfAA 2024 Annual Meeting theme, “Enchantment and Transformation.”
Please send your abstracts to Dr. Elise Matthews for peer review by the program committee at:
CONAA appreciates all email inquiries and questions pertaining to submissions and communication regarding your plan to submit an abstract.