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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:27:26 This message was forwarded through MEDSOCNEWS. If you wish to make an announcement or publicise an event then please send the text to: [log in to unmask] You can follow us on twitter @MedSocNews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Situating Efficacy: Biomedicine, Interdisciplinarity, and the Politics of Intervention February 16 - 17, 2015 Fondation Brocher, Geneva, Switzerland Although the randomized control trial (RCT) is considered the gold standard for evidence-based research in medicine, its findings of biomedical 'efficacy' under isolated test conditions stand apart from what affects the successful implementation and take up of the intervention, that is, 'effectiveness' in real world conditions. In this symposium we consider the challenges that emerge through this distinction and what an interdisciplinary approach might offer to redressing the challenges now posed in the translation of 'efficacy' to 'effectiveness'. By discussing conceptual issues as well as recent findings of RCTs for HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis biomedical prevention, the broad aim of the symposium is to facilitate an interdisciplinary exchange on the implications of efficacy testing by RCTs for 'real world' implementation, and to provide a forum in which to 'test' a concept of 'situated efficacy and its potential as a basis for novel modes of interdisciplinary collaboration. At the centre of the development of a concept of 'situated efficacy' is an attempt to rethink the effects of biomedical interventions such that any clear-cut distinction between the controlled environment of the RCT (which the testing of conventional 'efficacy' requires) and the 'real world' (which concerns the question of 'effectiveness') is not presupposed but rather problematised. Bringing together participants from the natural and social sciences, speculative design, international policy and programming, non-government organization implementers, we will discuss and attempt to think collectively the potentials and limitations of experimenting with alternative forms of interdisciplinary interventions in complex natural cultural problems. Speakers: Dr Vera Ehrenstein, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom Prof. Robert Grant, Gladstone Institute, UCSF, United States Dr. Ann Kelly, Exeter University, United Kingdom Dr. Catherine Montgomery, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Prof. William Gaver, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom Prof. Ian Harper, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Dr. Dean Murphy, Curtain University and UNSW, Australia. Prof. Daniel Neyland, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom Ass. Prof. Kane Race, University of Sydney, Australia Prof. Marsha Rosengarten, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom Dr. Martin Savransky, Goldsmiths, University of London and UCL, United Kingdom For further information, please contact the organisers: Daniel Nelyand, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Marsha Rosengarten [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Martin Savransky, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Register for participation at http://www.brocher.ch/en/events/144/situated-efficacy-as-a-novel-approach-to-interdisciplinarity-in-the-devising-and-delivery-of-effective-medical-and-behavioural-interventions/ ********************************************************************** 1. For general enquires or problems with the list or to CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS send a message to: [log in to unmask] 2. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the following message: set medsocnews nomail 3. To resume email from the list, send the following message: set medsocnews mail 4. To leave MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): leave medsocnews 5. To join or subscribe to MedSocNews, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message (leave the subject line blank and do not include a signature): SUBSCRIBE medsocnews firstname lastname 6. Further information about the medsocnews discussion list (including list archive and how to subscribe to or leave the list) can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medsocnews.html **********************************************************************