2026 AAHM + AAHN Annual Meeting: Full Schedule

3:00pm EDT

Sigerist Circle Panel: From Communities of Care to Health Equity in Local Communities of Need: Igniting Activist Practices for Change

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Grand Ballroom E

The Communities of Care project focuses on communities of care in Buffalo to think with study participants about the everyday ways that those impacted by disability, both caregivers and those receiving care, including poor, racialized, and disabled people, navigate and negotiate living, working, and accessing vital healthcare and other needs. The project uses “communities of care” to extend its understanding of care networks beyond formalized healthcare settings to include the vital care that takes place in the home, in neighborhoods, and in other settings. It also considers care as work – both in its more formal settings and in the informal spaces in which it most often occurs. The Communities of Care project explores the ways in which this work has been/is gendered and racialized and the implications that this has for the formation of caregiving/receiving relationships and worker organizing. At the center of the project is the creation of a permanent digital community archive, gallery and exhibition space, and research guide made available to community members, students, and researchers of all levels. In this roundtable conversation, the Communities of Care project will be put into dialogue with the innovative work being done through the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute, which focuses on abolishing health inequities.

1. Michael Rembis, Introduction and Co-Creating Stories
2. Steve Peraza, Care Doesn’t Provide Itself
3. Tabby Violet, Stories We Can't Tell: Reflections on Refusal and Possibility
4. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Unnecessary Deaths, Sacrifice Zones, and Underdeveloped Neighborhoods: How to Abolish Health Inequities

Moderators

Jim Bono

Associate Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Speakers

Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, in the School of Architecture and Planning, Clinical Professor, in the Department of Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, founding director of the U.B. Center for Urban Studies, and associate director of the U.B. Community Health Equity Research Institute at the University at Buffalo., University at Buffalo

Steve Peraza

Community Fellow, Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Michael Rembis

Professor, Department of History Director, Center for Disability Studies Co-PI Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo

Tabby Violet

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Mellon Communities of Care, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom E Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Special Session, AAHM Panel

8:00am EDT

Presidential Address

Friday June 5, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT

Grand Ballroom ABC

Friday June 5, 2026 8:00am - 9:15am EDT
Grand Ballroom ABC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Special Session

11:15am EDT

American Association for the History of Nursing Keynote

Friday June 5, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm EDT

Grand Ballroom ABC

Molly Ladd-Taylor will deliver the American Association for the History of Nursing Keynote Address titled "Nurses, Mothers & Others: Baby-Saving and its Legacy in American History"

Speakers

Molly Ladd-Taylor

2026 AAHN Keynote Speaker, York University

Friday June 5, 2026 11:15am - 12:15pm EDT
Grand Ballroom ABC Hyatt, Mezzanine Level

Special Session

6:00pm EDT

AAHM Garrison Lecture delivered by Monica Green

Friday June 5, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Sciences (JSMBS)

Dr. Monica H. Green will deliver the 2026 AAHM Garrison Lecture entitled "Straining the History of Infectious Diseases: Europe’s Two Black Deaths."

The Garrison lecture will be held at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biological Science (JSMBS) in room 2120A. JSMBS is located at 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203.

JSMBS is a 20-minute walk from the Hyatt. Exit the north side of the hotel and walk north on Main Street or Washington Street until you reach High Street. JSMBS can be accessed through the entrance on High Street. Volunteers will be there to guide you.

Buffalo’s Metro Rail can also take you to JSMBS. From the Hyatt, board the Metro Rail at Fountain Plaza heading outbound. Take the train to the next stop (Allen–Medical Campus). Volunteers will be there to guide you to the medical school.

Speakers