Events

June 2010

Economic Crises and Health in Africa
8 June 2010, Cambridge
The meeting, organised jointly with the Centre of African Studies and the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, took place on 8 June 2010 in Cambridge and was the third in a series of workshops on the historical experience of economic crisis in relation to public health and health systems. Topics included health and the state in Africa, and information technology and health. Amongst participants were Ama de Graft Aikins, Thandika Mkandawire, Emma Rothschild, Amartya Sen, Sharath Srinivasan and Megan Vaughan. For further information, please visit the meeting website.
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May 2010

Crisis, Migration and Public Health
5 May 2010, Harvard
The Center for History and Economics, Harvard, held the second in a series of workshops on the historical experience of economic crisis in relation to public health and health systems. The meeting was made up of four sessions: an overview of migration and health in historical perspective; a session on the migration of health personnel; a panel discussion on the health of migrants; and a concluding roundtable discussion on economic crises, health and health policy.
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Crises and Health
4 May 2010, Harvard
This workshop was concerned with health and economic crises in Latin America and Lusophone countries, in the context of global trends. It included four sessions over one day and a concluding panel. The first session explored the impact of economic crises in the twentieth century on public health institutions in Brazil, and the second considered these themes in a broader context by looking at the work of international health organizations during past global economic crises, specifically the Great Depression and the oil crises of the 1970s. The third session focused more specifically on how Latin American countries have, in the recent past, attempted to reform their health systems and explore potential consequences of the present financial crisis for access to healthcare and health inequalities. The fourth session focused on the evolution of the welfare state from a Lusophone perspective, exploring the changing role of the state and its ability to guarantee health rights. The meeting was sponsored by the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, Joint Center for History and Economics, DRCLAS-Brazil Studies Program, Mexican Health Foundation, and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia).
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December 2009

Economic Crises and Public Health in Historical Perspective
15 December 2009, Cambridge
A one-day workshop was held in King's College, Cambridge on 15 December 2009 on the subject of Economic Crises and Public Health: Colonial and Post-Colonial Responses. This was the first in a series of workshops on the historical experience of economic crisis in relation to public health and health systems. This workshop was made up of three sessions on the topics of public health and histories of economic crisis, public health research and crisis, and public health professionals and crisis. Papers were presented and participants included Sunil Amrith, Lincoln Chen, Paul Wenzel Geissler, Tim Harper, Richard Horton, Emma Rothschild and Simon Szreter. For further information, please see the conference website.
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