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Call for Papers: “Genomics and Genetic Medicine: Pathways to Global Health” (Panel P16)
Panel proposal for joint conference “MAGic2015. Anthropology and Global Health: interrogating theory, policy, and practice” (EASA Medical Anthropology Network and RAI Medical Anthropology Committee).
University of Sussex, UK, 9-11 September 2015.
Convenors: Sahra Gibbon (University College London), Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner (Sussex University) and Susie Kilshaw (University College London)
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 27th April 2015
The increasing visibility of the meeting points between genomics and 'Global Health' reflect a dynamic terrain in which an emerging focus on public health and the complex inter-linkages between, epigenetics, environment and human biological variation are being configured across a wide variety of national and transnational contexts. Genomics is now tied to large-scale global epidemiological studies, seen as increasingly central to addressing not only infectious disease but also the growing economic and social burden of common chronic conditions in low and middle-income developing countries. The issue of genomics and health inequalities has also become part of the landscape in which these developments are unfolding with calls to bridge the so-called 'genomic health divide' through economic investment in research and expanding provision of genomic services and technologies in the global south. This panel will contribute to emerging anthropological examination of genomic research and medicine as both a product of and vector for globalisation. We welcome papers that explore the diverse expressions, dynamics, tensions and disjunctures in the way that genomics and genetic medicine are being configured as a pathway to 'Global Health'. Themes might include how different national histories of genetic medicine or community genetics (including newborn screening programs) interface with the globalisation of genomic research and health care, the competing agendas of transnational genomics research agendas and local or national health priorities relating to rare or neglected diseases, the complex entanglements of population genetic variation and 'race' and the (re)configuring of genetic counselling programs orientated to individual risk management.
 More information:
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/medical/events/magic2015/cfp.shtml
Abstract submission:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3610

Dr. Sahra Gibbon
Lecturer in Medical Anthropology

14 Taviton Street, Department of Anthropology,
UCL, London, WC1H OBW

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