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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Posted Wed, 5 Oct 2016 10:55:38 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 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please join us for the next London medical sociology group meeting 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 Contact: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> This event is free to attend and open to all. Dr Lorelei Jones UCL Department of Applied Health Research 1-19 Torrington Place, WC1E7HB T. 07714687184 E. [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ********************************************************************** 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 **********************************************************************