Virtual Conference
Healthcare History, Policy, and Equity

A Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers
February 28-March 1, 2025, via Zoom

The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) invites you to register for an engaging virtual conference focused on healthcare history, policy, and equity.

Contemporary discussions on healthcare policy and equity often overlook the historical events that continue to shape today’s challenges. This conference provides a platform for early-career individuals to explore and showcase the value of historical perspectives in addressing modern healthcare issues.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and contribute to meaningful conversations!

Date: February 28 & March 1
Times: 11:00 am - 3:30 pm ET Friday; 9:00 am - 1:45 pm ET Saturday
Cost: $10 Student Members; $20 Members; $50 Non-members

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Friday, February 28, 2025
11:00 Welcome
Dr. Erin Spinney

11:00-12:00 Panel 1: Nurse Training
Chair: Erin Spinney

Approach to Nursing Training, Recruitment and Service in Colonial Ghana, 1878 to 1944
Justina Akansor, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and University of Ghana

“It was difficult for them; it was difficult for us”: The transition of registered nursing education from hospital training to the higher education sector in Australia.
Dr. Penelope Harrison, University of the Sunshine Coast, Caboolture, Australia

12:00-1:00 Turning your Dissertation into a Book Workshop
Workshop with Manchester University Press Editor Meredith Carol and Nursing History and Humanities Series Editor Dr. Alannah Tomkins

1:00-1:15 Break

1:15-2:15 Panel 2: Responses to Diseases
Chair: Erin Spinney

Concerns, Contaminations, and Containments: Responses to AIDS in Saskatoon, 1983-1995
Dasha Guliak, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

“A City Disease”: Venereal Diseases, Colonization and Health Policy in Twentieth Century Ghana
Benjamin Darkwa, University of Alberta, Canada

2:15-2:30 Break

2:30-3:30 Panel 3: Perceptions of Nursing and Medicine
Chair: Erin Spinney

Guardians of Honor: Celebrating Nursing Honor Guards as Leaders in Legacy and Historical Preservation
C. Nikol Hamilton, Arkansas State University

Medicine or Miracle?: Deaf Therapy and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China
Shu Wan, University of Buffalo

Saturday, March 1, 2025

9:00-10:00 Panel 4: Black Nursing and Black Health
Chair: Jane Brooks

Resilience and Progress: Black Nurses in 20th-Century U.S. Healthcare History
Mosunmola Ogunmolaji, University of Florida

The making of Blackness through global hierarchies of race, gender, and medicine in the Black Atlantic
Octavia Vogel, Emory University

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-11:45 Panel 5: Lessons from the 20^th Century
Chair: Mary Gibson

Crisis and Reform: Workforce Vulnerabilities from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic to Modern Healthcare Policy
Elizabeth Ahern, University of Texas Health Science Center (Presenting)
Dr. Emily Barr, University of Texas Health Science Center

"Looking After Men Who were Hit”: Nursing and Caregiving during the Irish War of Independence
Julie Crowley, South East Technological University, Ireland

Prescient Parallels in Healthcare History: Case Study of the Commonalities in Nurses' Experiences during COVID-19 and the Second World War
Dr. Katherine Roberts, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

11:45-12:30 Virtual Lunch and Mentoring Opportunity

12:30-1:30 Panel 6: International Nurse Leadership and Professionalization
Chair: Lydia Wytenbroek

The Rise of the First Iranian Nursing Leaders: From American Education to Iranian Leadership,1950s-1960s
Mohadeseh Saki, University of British Columbia, Canada

The emergence and professional realisation of rural and remote nursing in North Queensland in the early-to-mid 1900s.
Sandra Dash, James Cook University, Australia

1:30-1:45 Closing
Dr. Erin Spinney