CIVIL RIGHTS vs CONSUMER RIGHTS
IN HEALTH CARE ADVOCACY

Jeff Maskovsky, Queens College

Prevention Justice Seminar

October 20, 2004

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Jeff Maskovsky is an anthropologist whose research and writing focus on urban poverty, grassroots activism and political economic change in the United States. His recent publications include the co-edited volume, New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics and Impoverished People in the United States (NYU Press 2001), a co-edited special issue of the journal Urban Anthropology on globalization, neoliberal policy, and poverty in the United States and Mexico, and a chapter on neighborhood and global justice activism in Philadelphia for the volume, Reclaiming Cities, edited by Jane Schneider (Blackwell Press, in press).

Maskovsky has collaborated with community groups, non-profit organizations and health policy experts to found several innovative community health and HIV treatment education programs targeting youth, sexual minorities, low-income people, and people of color. He is a co-founder of Project TEACH in Philadelphia and is a member of the CHAMP Board of Directors.

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