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The mission of the Black Women\u2019s Health Conference Task Force at Tulane University is to raise health awareness and increase knowledge of health-related issues and concerns that disproportionately impact black women and girls. The Black Women\u2019s Health Conference provides a biennial forum for sharing, matching, and coordinating empirical evidence with praxis and experience to better understand and enrich health outcomes for black women and girls.<\/p>\n
The theme of the 4th Biennial Black Women\u2019s Health Conference at Tulane University is Prevention, Protection, & Proactiveness: Understanding, Confronting, and Negotiating STI\/STD Risks and Black Women\u2019s Health. We particularly seek proposals that conceptualize, interrogate, deconstruct, and report on issues of risk, protection, disparity, detection, treatment, costs, and consequences, in both conventional and emerging public health, social, political, legal, and historical contexts relevant to black women\u2019s health and wellness and sexually transmitted disease and infection. We invite panel, poster, and individual paper submissions on a wide range of topics that may include but are not limited to the following:<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\u2022 Access to Quality Healthcare
\n\u2022 Sex Work, Sex Trafficking
\n\u2022 Drug trafficking, Incarceration, & Re-Entry
\n\u2022 Drug and Alcohol Use Before & During Sex
\n\u2022 Sexuality and Identity Spectrums
\n\u2022 Monogamy and Concurrent Sexual Partnership
\n\u2022 Status, Dormancy, Active Transmission
\n\u2022 Geography and Risk[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]We encourage submissions in a variety of forms, including: traditional academic conference papers and posters, as well as proposals for panels, workshops, and roundtables from academics, independent scholars, practitioners, artists, activists, and community workers and organizers.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n