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18 April, 2007
NUI Maynooth Workshop on Global Health and “The Modern Plagues”
One-Day Workshop on Global Health and “The Modern Plagues”
The Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth is pleased to host a one-day workshop on 21 April 2007.
This workshop explores the interface between current research into, and attempts to control, infectious diseases (especially, the so-called ‘diseases of poverty’), in societies of the South.
The speakers have all been involved with on-the-ground programmes aimed at TB and HIV control in Africa and India. The day will conclude with a roundtable discussion involving a panel composed of anthropologists, immunologists, public health specialists and NGO members.
Provisional Schedule
9:30-9:55 Introduction
10:00-11:00 Karina Kielmann
11:05-11:45 Coffee
11:50-12:50 Breda Gahan
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:10-3:10 Adebola Adedimeji
3:15-4:00 Round Table Discussion
Venue: John Hume Building, North Campus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Open to the public without charge. Coffee and Lunch will be available for purchase at the venue.
For further information look at our website www.nuim.ie>, or contact anthropology.office@nuim.ie.
Karina Kielmann PhD is a medical anthropologist with a combined background in anthropology and public health, currently working with two DfID-funded research consortia in India: the Communicable Disease Control (TARGETS) programme and the HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care programme. She lectures in the Health Policy Unit of the London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Breda Gahan is the Global HIV&AIDS Programme Advisor, Concern Worldwide. She is a Nurse and Midwife with a Masters Degree in Public Health. She has worked and lived overseas since 1984 in Iraq, Sudan, Cambodia and Mozambique. For the past 18 years she has worked with Concern Worldwide. Since mid 2002, she supports Concern’s Overseas HIV&AIDS Programme in its 31 countries of operation, and is supporting Concern’s HIV&AIDS mainstreaming response to the pandemic globally.
Adebola Adedimeji has worked extensively in population, health and development activities. He has taught on, and conducted research in, social epidemiological issues relating to adolescents’ sexual health, gender issues, HIV/AIDS prevention, and in policy/advocacy. He presently teaches on (and co-ordinates) the Master of Science (MSc) in the Global Health programme at Trinity College.