Institute for International Health and Development- IIHD

Forthcoming events

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IIHD Seminar Series 2012

IIHD at Queen Margaret University continues its informative series of 2012 Seminars with

-- 22nd February (16-17:30 GMT,QMU Room 0065 and online) Ian Harper (from Edinburgh University): TB Control and drug markets in India & Nepal.

Ian will show how, despite functioning DOTS programmes in the public sector, much access to TB medicines is dependent on private pharmaceutical markets. Based on research in India and Nepal, this presentation examines the role of pharmaceutical markets in the control of TB.
Ian Harper is trained in both medicine and anthropology, and has more than 20 years health and development experience both as a practitioner and researcher in Nepal and India. He is currently based at the University of Edinburgh, where he is Head of Subject in Social Anthropology.

If you're interested in tuning in ONLINE on the day simply click on: http://qmu.adobeconnect.com/r89717973/ .There will be an option to sign in as guest. Room will be open from 15:45- For any access questions, please contact Isa Uny at: iuny@qmu.ac.uk

The dates, speakers and themes of our subsequent seminars for 2012 are as follows, so mark your diaries! We look forward to seeing you there.

• 15 th March ( 16-17:30 GMT,QMU Room 0065 and online): Prof. Alan Whiteside (Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD)   :

"What is Realistic 'Sustainability' within the Context of a Multi-Country Regional HIV Response?: A Perspective from Southern Africa"

Alan will  outline the scale of the HIV epidemic in Southern Africa, the worst affected region in the world. He will look at where, in the populations, it is located, why the disease spread so rapidly there and  how the response is evolving.

Alan Whiteside Alan was a Commissioner on the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (2003 and 2006). He has a commitment to development, especially in Southern Africa. He is an elected member of Governing Council International AIDS Society; and a member of the Waterford Kamhlaba College Governing Council.

--28th March (4:15-5:45pm), Room 0065: Flora Cornish (London School of Economics) : " From brothel to boardroom: Prospects for community leadership of Indian HIV interventions in the context of global funding practices".

Flora will show how the  empowerment of marginalised communities to lead local responses to HIV/AIDS is a key strategy of funding agencies' globalised HIV/AIDS policies, given evidence that disempowerment is a root source of vulnerability to HIV.

Flora Cornish is a Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methodology at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on community mobilisation for health.She is Editor of the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.

-- 25th April (4-5:30pm), Room 2168: Karina Kielmann(IIHD) on " The Moral Economy of Home-Based Care for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in Zambia"

The paper draws on fieldwork undertaken in 2009 examining shifts in the role, scope, and sustainability of home-based care for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the context of wider access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Zambia.  As lay care-givers are increasingly being relied on to support formal sector delivery of ART, the scope of care they provide has become increasingly medicalised , this has met with considerable ambivalence in communities, whose ideas of 'good care' are rooted in notions of moral obligation, trust, and reciprocity

Karina Kielmann is a medical anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in IIHD.  She has worked on tuberculosis and HIV care since 2001, with a particular interest on the impact of reforms and new initiatives in service delivery on the dynamics of patient-provider interaction and quality of care

If you're interested in tuning in online on the day simply click on: http://qmu.adobeconnect.com/r89717973/ 

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Workshop Invitation
Managing adherence to anti-retroviral therapy: Learning from the analysis of interactions between health professionals and clients
18-19 January 2012
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

What this workshop is about

The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners who are practically concerned with adherence to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and academics who study interactions between health providers and clients. Practitioners can include health professionals (GPs, nurses, pharmacists) or those working in organizations engaged in advocacy and improvement of HIV services. We seek to gain insight into how communication between health professionals and clients can facilitate
adherence to ART. We will focus on provider-client interactions in resource-rich and resource-poor settings. We seek to share insights derived from practical experience and academic work in
conversation analysis and related analytical approaches and explore ways of translating insights into policy and practice.

To download full invitation details, click here

To download expression of interest, click here

For suggestions on accommodation in Edinburgh, click here

For travel info to Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, click here

Information on speakers click here

Full programme content click here

There's a workshop website, at which you find further background information about the speakers and workshop rationale:  https://sites.google.com/site/communicationandartadherence/

At this site we'll put up the link tot he virtual classroom for those attending online. You can leave messages and engage in discussions.