Please join us for the next London Medical Sociology Group seminar:
Wednesday 26 October, 6-7pm
Models, Mayhem and Charismatic facts: The making of a global health emergency
Ann H. Kelly, Kings College London
Global Health attention is intense, but fickle. An awkward compromise of economic interests and geopolitics, moral and epidemiological logics, global health 'emergencies' crystalize around distinct and often countervailing values. There are emerging threats and persistent plagues; examples of gross negligence and near-triumph-devastating illness that demand large-scale investment and mundane suffering that could be redressed with the application of minimal resources. But whether it is HIV, Guinea Worm or obesity, the ways in which a public health issue becomes a global concern depends on how its present danger is tied to our collective future. A global health emergency is built upon a vision; it is as much a matter of moral fervour and collective mobilisation, as of fact.
This paper analyses the modalities of evidentiary charisma at work in the 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak response. It contextualises the transmission models generated to Ebola's spread through an analysis of the Global Malaria Eradication campaign launched in the mid-1950s and the mathematical model of transmission upon which it was built. Drawing together these two occasions of global health acceleration-each in their own way 'races as against time'-this paper explores the peculiar power of evidentiary claims to marshal salience, mobilize resources and short-circuit any other possible future, than the one of its own making.
Venue: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH
Nearest train/tube stations: Russell Square, Euston and King's Cross
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This event is free to attend and open to all.
Dr Lorelei Jones
Senior Research Associate
Department of Applied Health Research, UCL
1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB
T. 07714687184
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