Evaluating obstacles to preparedness for climate change: The case of West Nile Virus.
American Public Health Association Meeting. 2011. Washington, D.C.
Technolegal Aspects of the British Petroleum Oil Spill: Risk Assessment, Citizen
Science and Disaster Recovery. Society for the Social Studies of Science. 2011. Cleveland,
OH.
Conference Presentations
2012.
White-Newsome, Jalonne, Marie S. O’Neill, Natalie R. Sampson, Sabrina McCormick,
Miatta A. Buxton and Melissa Stults. Understanding the perception, strategies
and challenges of communicating heat-related health risks to the public. American
Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. Vancouver, B.C.
2011.
Social Factors As Obstacles to Addressing Climate Change: The Case of West Nile
Virus. American Public Health Association. Washington, D.C.
Technolegal Aspects of the British Petroleum Oil Spill: Risk Assessment, Citizen
Science and Disaster Recovery. Society for the Social Studies of Science. Cleveland,
OH.
McCormick, Sabrina and Janet Gamble. Vulnerability of Older Adults to Climate
Change in the United States. Environmental Health Meeting. Salvador, Brazil.
McCormick, Sabrina, N.R. Sampson, E. Parker, J. White-Newsome, C. Gronlund, and
L. Catalano. Challenges to Preparedness for Extreme Heat in the Urban United
States. Environmental Health Meeting. Salvador, Brazil.
2010.
Sampson, Natalie, Edith Parker, Sabrina McCormick, Jalonne White-Newsome,
Carina Gronlund, Linda Catalano, and Marie S. O’Neill. Reducing Social Disparities
of Heatwave Impacts in a Changing Climate: A Qualitative Investigation of Heat
Planning in Four U.S. Cities. American Public Health Association Meeting. Denver,
CO.
Filling the Adaptation Gap: Understanding the Social Dimensions of Climate
Impacts and Responses. American Sociological Association Meeting. Atlanta, GA.
2009.
Maladaptation: The Unintended Consequences of Protection from Climate Change.
Thematic Session on Global Climate Change & Threatened Communities. American
Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
2008.
Hot or Not?: Recognizing and Preparing for Climate-Induced Illness. American
Sociological Association. Boston, MA.
Canaries in the Ice: The Politics, Science and Community of Climate Change in the
Arctic. American Sociological Association. Boston, MA.
Public Participation in Environmental Breast Cancer Research: A Progress Report.
Sabrina McCormick and Lori Baralt. American Academy of the Sciences. Boston,
MA.
2007.
U.S. Policies on Climate Change and Health: Environmental Justice Bridging Science
and Political Freeze. American Sociological Association. New York, New York.
Gender, Health, and the Environment. Session organizer (with Sara Shostak).
Medical
Sociology Section Session. American Sociological Association. New York, New York.
Globalizing Water: Debates and Development in the Brazilian Amazon. American
Association of Geographers. San Francisco, CA.
2006.
The Risky Business of Looking Pretty: Movements and Politics for Safe Cosmetics.
McCormick, Sabrina. Globalization, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice
conference, Michigan State University.
Anti-Scientization Movements: A New Framework for Understanding Mobilization
and Contestation. American Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada.
Conflicts over Privatization of Water in Brazil. Society for the Study of Social
Problems. Montreal, Canada
2006.
Social Movement Success?: The Breast Cancer Movement. McCormick, Sabrina and
Lori Baralt. Society for the Study of Social Problems. Montreal, Canada.
The Anti-Dam Movement in Brazil: Knowledge Contestation as Communicative
Action. Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2004.
The Brazilian Anti-Dam Movement: Constructing a New Arena of Communicative
Action. American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
Embodied Health Movements: Responses to a “Scientized” World. Morello-Frosch,
Rachel, Steve Zavestoski, Phil Brown, Brian Mayer, Sabrina McCormick and Rebecca
Gasior Altman. American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
2003.
Breast Cancer Science, Knowledge and Environmental Causation of Breast Cancer.
Brown, Phil, Sabrina McCormick, Brian Mayer, Stephen Zavestoski, Rachel Morello-
Frosch, Rebecca Gasior, and Pamela Webster. American Public Health Association.
San Francisco, CA.
Increasing Participation, Democratizing Knowledge: A Case Study of the Brazilian
Anti-Dam Movement. Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference.
Atlanta, GA.
Health Social Movements and Contested Illnesses. Brown, Phil, Brian Mayer, Rachel
Morello-Frosch, Rebecca Gasior, Sabrina McCormick, and Stephen Zavestoski. Society
for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA.
Social Movements and Democratizing Knowledge: A Case Study of the Brazilian Anti-
Dam Movement. American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA.
The Social Construction and Illness Experience of Fibromyalgia. McCormick, Sabrina
and Maryhelen D’Ottavi. American Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA.
Dams and Displacement in Brazil: Local Participation in Environmental Decision-
Making. Global Health Council Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.
Dams in Brazil: Ramifications of Neoliberal Development. World Social Forum,
International Sociological Association RC24 Meeting. Porto Alegre, Rio Gande do Sul,
Brazil.
2002.
Socioeconomic Status and Relative Breast Cancer Risk on Cape Cod, Massachusetts: A
Geographic Information Systems Analysis. Geographic Information Systems
Symposium. Brown University, Providence, RI.
2001.
Something in the Air: Citizen-Science Alliances and the Dispute Over Environmental
Factors in Asthma. Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Joshua Mandelbaum, Theo Luebke,
Sabrina McCormick, and Brian Mayer. Society for Social Studies of Science. Boston,
MA.
Public Involvement in Breast Cancer Research: An Analysis and Prototype. American
Public Health Association. Atlanta, GA. McCormick, Sabrina, Ruth Polk, Phil Brown,
and Julia Brody.
Gulf War Illnesses – Toxics, Stress, And Other Approaches To Mysterious Ailments.
Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, Theo Luebke, and Meadow
Linder. American Public Health Association. Atlanta, GA.
The Personal Is Scientific, The Scientific is Political: The Environmental Breast Cancer
Movement. American Sociological Association Presentation. Annaheim. CA.
Asthma and Breast Cancer Social Movements. American Sociological Association
Presentation, Annaheim. CA. Mandlebaum, Josh, Phil Brown, and Sabrina McCormick.
Contesting Paradigms of Illness and Epistemology: The Environmental Breast
Cancer Movement. International Sociological Association. Cambridge, England.
McCormick, Sabrina and Phil Brown.
The Enabling and Constraining Influences of Gender In Challenging Science, the
Biomedical Model, and Policy. International Sociological Association. Cambridge,
England. Zavestoski, Steve, Phil Brown, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian Mayer.
2000.
A Gulf of Difference: Disputes Over Gulf War-Related Illnesses. American
Sociological Association. Washington, D.C. Phil Brown, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina
McCormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, Aracely Alicea, and Theo Luebke.
Print Media Coverage of Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer. American
Sociological Association. Washington, D.C. Phil Brown, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina
McCormick, Joshua Mandelbaum, Aracely Alicea, and Theo Luebke.
Invited Presentations
2011.
Climate Change and the Health and Well-Being of Older Americans: Setting a
Research Agenda. Environmental Protection Agency. Potomac Yards, Crystal City,
VA.
Technolegal Aspects of the British Petroleum Oil Spill: Risk Assessment, Citizen
Science and Disaster Recovery. National Science Foundation Workshop on Sociolegal
Studies and Disaster. Onati Institute for the Sociology of Law & the National Science
Foundation. Onati, Spain.
Communicating for Climate Adaptation and Disaster Management. Climate Change
Adaptation and Emergency Management Workshop, RMIT University. Brisbane,
Australia.
2010.
Beyond a 1,000 Words: Catalyzing Climate Adaptation for Video. American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, DC.
Disaster Distrust: Risk Assessment and Citizen Science in the BP Oil Spill. National
Academies for Public Administration. Washington, DC.
Communicating Climate Science. Environmental Protection Agency. Potomac Yards,
Crystal City, VA.
2009.
West Nile Virus: The Social Challenges of Emergent Disease. Seminar for European
and America Research on Climate and Health, French Embassy; Washington, D.C.
Climate Change and Health: A Rising Tide. American Association for Retired People.
Washington, DC.
What’s behind the Breast Cancer Epidemic? Science on Tap; Philadelphia, PA.
No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer, University of
Pennsylvania Bookstore. Philadelphia, PA.
2008.
West Nile Virus: The Science and Politics of Crisis. University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Error! Contact not defined..
West Nile Virus: The Science and Politics of Crisis. University of British Columbia,
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Climate Change and Health. National Science Foundation Workshop on Sociological
Approaches to Climate Change. Washington, D.C.
Recognizing and Managing the Health Impacts of Climate Change. Robert Wood
Johnson Health & Society Scholars Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas.
Social Factors in Climate-Induced Illness. Global Health Program, New York
University. New York, New York.
Recognizing and Responding to the Health Impacts of Climate Change. Drexel
University. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2007.
Climate Change and Health: From Environmental to Health Social Movement.
Workshop on Social Movements and the Development of Health Institutions.
University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
From ‘Politico-Scientists’ to Democratizing Science Movements: The Changing
Climate of Citizens and Science. ASA Special Session: Science, Democracy, and the
Environment: Contributions of Barry Commoner. American Sociological
Association. New York, New York.
Moderator, The Public Health Impacts of Climate Change. Taking Action on Climate
Change and Global Warming. New Jersey Technical Institute. Newark, New Jersey.
Wet Dreams or Dry Realities?: Large Dams in the Brazilian Amazon. Women in
Development Colloquium Series. Michigan State University.
2006.
Contesting the Science of Brazilian Dam Planning. Bard College. Annandale-on-
Hudson, New York.
Contesting the Science of Brazilian Dam Planning. Department of Environmental
Science Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley,
California.
Breast Cancer and Environment. Great Issues in Medicine and Global Health
Symposium. Medical School, Dartmouth College. Hanover, New Hampshire.
Race and Environmental Preservation in the Amazon: Contesting Hydroelectric
Dams.
Conservation, Environmental Justice and Resource Rights Workshop, Harvard
University. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Governing Water in Brazil: Participatory Projects for Hydroelectric Dams. Workshop
on Politics and Society in Contemporary Latin America, Kellogg Institute for
International Studies. Notre Dame University. Notre Dame, IN.
Social Mobilization on Environmental Issues in Brazil. Charla Series Seminar, Center
for Latin America and Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI.
2005.
Breast Cancer and the Environment: New Movement, New Science. From
Environmental Inequality to Environmental Justice series. Lyman Briggs School,
Michigan State University. East Lansing, MI.
2002.
Breast Cancer Activism and the Environment. Salem State College. Marblehead, MA.
Working Group Leader for Health Care/Health Social Movements. Brown, Phil, Steve
Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick and Brian Mayer. Collective Behavior and Social
Movements Conference. Notre Dame, IN.
Health Social Movements. Collective Behavior and Social Movements Conference.
Notre Dame, IL. Brown, Phil, Steve Zavestoski, Sabrina McCormick, and Brian
Mayer.
2000.
Indigenous Peoples of Brazil: Ecological Environment as a Result of State Structure
and Development. Brown University. Providence, RI.