History of the Social Determinants of Health
Organised by: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
in collaboration with Professor Bernardino Fantini and Professor Sir Michael
Marmot
Held at: Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, (G08) Roberts Building,
Torrington Place, London WC1E 6EQ
(Malet Place Entrance -- Opposite Waterstone's Bookshop)
Tuesday 19 September
History of the Social Determinants of Health: Regions
8.30 Registration and Refreshments
Chair: Professor Harold J. Cook (UCL, co-organiser)
9.00 Opening Remarks: Welcome by UCL Vice-Provost Michael Worton;
Introduction to the Commission on Social Determinants of Health and the UCL
International Institute for Society and Health by Professor Sir Michael
Marmot
9.20-10.00 Australia and Oceania: Professor Alison Bashford (University
of
Sydney)
10.00-10.40 Asia: Professor Paul Greenough (University of Iowa)
10.40 Refreshments
11.00-11.20 Discussant: Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL, WHO
Commission
on Social Determinants of Health)
11.20-11.45 Comments and questions
12.00 Lunch
Chair: Professor Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and
Tropical
Medicine)
1.00-1.40 Latin America: Professor Marcos Cueto (Peruvian University
Cayetano Heredia)
1.40-2.20 Africa: Professor Randall Packard (Director, Institute for
History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)
2.20-2.40 Discussant: Dr Hernan Sandoval (Chilean Ambassador to
France)
2.40-3.00 Comments and questions
3.00 Refreshments
3.30-4.10 North America: Dr Elizabeth Fee (United States National
Library
of Medicine)
4.10-4.50 Europe: Professor Bernardino Fantini (University of Geneva
and
the University of Lausanne) and Professor Jan Sundin (Linköping University)
4.50-5.10 Discussant: Professor Denny Vägerö (Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm)
5.10-6.00 Comments and questions
6.00-7.30 Reception : Roberts Foyer
Wednesday 20 September
History of the Social Determinants of Health: Topics
8.30 Registration & Refreshments
Chair: Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya (UCL, co-organiser)
9.00 Opening Remarks: Introduction to the Global Health Histories
initiative by Thomson Prentice (WHO)
9.20-10.40 Two papers on Race and Ethnicity, Gender, and Class:
Professor
Stephen Kunitz (University of Rochester, New York) and Dr Kasturi Sen
(Director of Research, INTRAC, Oxford)
10.40 Refreshments
11.00-11.20 Discussant: Giovanni Berlinguer (Member of the European
Parliament and The World Health Organization Commission on the Social
Determinants of Health)
11.20-11.45 Comments and questions
12.00 Lunch
Chair: Professor Bernardino Fantini (University of Geneva,
co-organiser)
1.00-2.20 Two papers on Social Policy and Social Context: Professor
Roderick Lawrence (University of Geneva) and Dr Anne-Emanuelle Birn
(University of Toronto)
2.20-2.40 Discussant: Dr Socrates Litsios (The World Health
Organization)
2.40-3.00 Comments and questions
3.00 Refreshments
3.30-4.50 Two papers on Economic and Political Development:
Professor Patrice Bourdelais (L'École de Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales) and Professor Imrana Qadeer (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
4.50-5.10 Discussant: Alex Irwin (Secretariat of the Commission on the
Social Determinants of Health)
5.10-6.00 Comments and questions
6.00-7.30 Reception: Roberts Foyer
Thursday 21 September
History of the Social Determinants of Health: Linking Local Histories
8.50 Registration & Refreshments
Chair: Professor Anne Hardy (UCL, co-organiser)
9.10-9.25 Opening Remarks: Introduction to the Phoenix Thematic
Network by
Professor Laurinda Abreu (University of Évora)
9.25-10.45 Two papers on History and the Contemporary Arena: Dr Simon
Szreter (University of Cambridge and www.historyandpolicy.org) and Dr Fiona
Godlee (Editor, British Medical Journal)
10.45 Refreshments
11.15-11.35 Discussant: Dr William Muraskin (Queens College, City
University of New York)
11.35-12.00 Comments and questions
12.15 Lunch
Chair: Thompson Prentice (WHO)
1.15-2.35 Two papers on 'Taking a History': Eliciting the Past from
the
Living: Dr Tilli Tansey (Wellcome Trust Centre), speaking about 'The Witness
Seminar' method; and Professor Tony Jefferson (Keele University), speaking
about the 'Free Association, Narrative and the Interview' method
2.35-3.00 Comments and Questions
Booking is essential. Please see Events at www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed for
details.
