Interesting one day conference in NYC: Structural Competency, March 23rd
STRUCTURAL COMPETENCY: New Medicine for the Institutional Inequalities That Make Us Sick
A free one day conference by New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. For anyone who has the chance to travel to NYC on Friday, March 23rd, this seems like a great event to check out!
This one-day working conference will assemble multidisciplinary practitioners and theorists to explore a new paradigm, Structural Competency, that proposes that a host of clinical disorders (e.g. hypertension, obesity, smoking,medication “non-compliance,” post-traumatic syndromes, depression, psychosis) must be addressed as the downstream implications of upstream decisions (e.g. food delivery systems, housing discrimination, urban infrastructure failure, biocapitalism, diagnostic codes).
Structural competency extends beyond cultural competency to address the pathologies of institutions and policies that alter the behaviors and biologies of individuals.
