Supporting a movement for health and health equity: Lessons from social movements: Workshop summary

The workshop opened with presentations from two scholars of social movements: Francesca Polletta, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer at Harvard University. Polletta shared insights from her work and from the sociology literature on the formation and dynamics of social movements, and she described circumstances, structures, and strategies that are associated with effective social movements (Polletta, 2008).
Ganz, who studies and teaches leadership, organization, and strategy in social movements and politics and who has worked as a community organizer, described lessons learned from his long experience in building successful social movements and in training change leaders (Ganz, 2010). (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarNovember2024