Measuring Global Health – An International Workshop on the Political, Social and Ethical Aspects of Metrics and Quantification in Global Health, King’s College London, 26 and 27 January 2017.
Metrics and quantification – from epidemiological surveillance to cost-effectiveness calculations – have become ubiquitous in the field of global health of late. A collaboration between King's College London, McGill University and Queen Mary University, this workshop will bring epidemiologists and global health practitioners together with social scientists and historians to discuss the political, social and ethical aspects of this recent development. It will explore the political discourses, institutional forms and statistical techniques that make these metrics possible. It will also examine what numerical evidence has more traction and what remains unaccounted for and why. And, it will look at how metrics transform the way global health advocacy, politics and management is done.
Participation to the workshop is free, but places are limited and prior registration is necessary. If interested, please email Dr. David Reubi ([log in to unmask])<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Places will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. For more information, see the following website: http://criticalglobalhealth.org/category/workshops/. Please feel free to share this information throughout your own networks.
Provisional Programme
Day One – Thursday 26 January 2017, 11 AM to 6 PM
Welcome
Prof. Nikolas Rose and Dr David Reubi (KCL)
Keynote Address I
* Making Health Measurement a Global Enterprise: Lessons from the Global Burden of Disease Study – Prof. Moshen Naghavi (IHME, University of Washington)
Chair – Prof. Barbara Prainsack (KCL)
Commentary – Prof. Tobias Rees (McGill)
Panel 1 – The Production of Global Health Metrics
* A Genealogy of Epidemiological Reason: Biopolitics, Lifestyles and Globalisation – Dr. David Reubi (KCL)
* Challenges in Metrics and Measurement: The Case of the Affordable Medicines Facility-Malaria – Prof. Kara Hanson (LSHTM)
* From Local Epidemiologies to Global Metrics: How World Mental Health has been Scaled Up, Watered Down and Reconstructed – Prof. Anne Lovell (Cermes3, Paris)
* On the Reliable Estimation of Causes of Death in Low- and Middle-Income Countries – Prof. Prabhat Jha (University of Toronto)
Chair-Discussant: Prof. Jean-Paul Gaudillière (Cermes3, Paris)
Panel 2 – The Politics of Global Health Metrics
* The Global Fund and the Measuring of Lives Saved – Dr. David McCoy (QMUL)
* The Gates Foundation, Data Worlds and Global Health – Prof. Manjari Mahajan (New School)
* The Politics of Death – Prof. Peter Byass (University of Umeå)
* The Challenges of Adding Precision to Public Health – Dr David Blazes (Gates Foundation)
Chair-Discussant: Mr William Heisel (IHME, University of Washington)
Day Two – Friday 27 January 2017, 9 AM to 3 PM
Keynote Address II
* A World that Counts? The Potential and Peril of Ruling the World by Numbers – Prof. Morten Jerven (NMBU, Oslo)
Chair – Prof. George Weisz (McGill)
Commentary – Dr. Ann Kelly (KCL)
Panel 3 – The Consumption of Global Health Metrics
* Missing Half the Sky? Gender and Global Health – Prof. Sarah Hawkes (UCL)
* Metrics and the Fate of Representational Politics: The Challenges for the Ugandan Parliament’s Health Select Committee – Dr. Kerry Holden (QMUL)
* The irrelevance of evidence in global health: the case of deworming in East Africa – Dr. Melissa Parker (LSHTM)
* Global Metrics in Health Professional Education in a Sub-Saharan Context: Barriers or Enablers? – Prof. Nelson Sewankambo (Makerere University)
Chair-Discussant: Prof. Marsha Rosengarten (Goldsmiths)
Round-table
* Prof. Marsha Rosengarten (Goldsmiths)
* Prof. Jean-Paul Gaudillière (Cermes3, Paris)
* Dr. Jocalyn Clark (Lancet)
* Prof. Nelson Sewankambo (Makerere University)
Chair-Discussant: Prof. George Weisz (McGill)
Dr David Reubi
Wellcome Trust Fellow
Deputy Director of Research
Department of Global Health & Social Medicine
School of Global Affairs
King's College London
Strand, East Building, Room 3.1
London WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
Phone: ++44 78 7516 4411
Website: criticalglobalhealth.org<http://www.criticalglobalhealth.org>
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