Dear Colleague,
International Conference - Anthropology and the Health of Populations 20-22
June 2002, Brunel University, West London
We are holding what will be the largest ever Conference in Europe on the cultural
aspects of public and community health towards the end of next week. We
think it very likely that you or one or more of your colleagues who are
concerned with health and health care issues, may wish to attend part of
this Conference - perhaps a morning or an afternoon session - even if you
cannot attend it all. It will be especially valuable for those who are:
* concerned with researching, managing, diagnosing or treating people from
different ethnic minorities, asylum seekers or refugees
* interested in the cultural aspects of the delivery of (public) health care
in community settings nationally and internationally
* concerned with managing, or teaching about public health policy or practice
in multi-cultural settings
Further details of registration and costs are on
www.brunel.ac.uk/research/cshsd The full programme will be on the web site
at the beginning of next week.
There will be:
* workshops {led by international scholars and practitioners} including: health
care in refugee and migrant populations; the cultural context of HIV and
AIDS (with special reference to Africa); maternal and family health (with
special reference to Latin America); medicine and the state (with special
reference to Nepal), all between 4.30 and 6.30 on Thursday 21st.
* AND further workshops including: anthropology in medical and nursing education;
cancer and the person; ethnicity, conflict and mental health (with
special reference to Latin America); European initiatives in medical
anthropology; multi-drug approaches to tuberculosis, all at 4.30 to 6.30
on Friday 21st, except for the TB workshop which will start at 3.30
* 150 presentations on national and international issues in streams throughout
the Conference, including a special stream on Latin America.
* plenary speakers: Mary Douglas, eminent anthropologist - 9am on Friday 21st;
Paul Farmer (Harvard) renowned scholar on international health - 2 pm on
Friday 21st; Robert Hahn (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta) eminent scholar on the cultural aspects of public health - 2
p.m. on Thursday 21st
For additional information please contact the Conference e-mail [log in to unmask],
or call +44 (0)1895-203306 during office hours.
With best wishes,
Professor Ian Robinson
Conference Organiser
Ian C Robinson
Brunel University, UK
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