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2011    
September 20, 2011  

Bioethics in the City:

The "Privatization of Everything"

Bioethics in the City:

"The Privatization of Everything"

 

Presenters: Matthew Herder, Janice Graham & Nuala Kenny

 

Where: Outdoor Ampitheatre, Student Union Building, Dalhousie

 

This presentation will be addressing the issue of Privatization- its affects on our health and education. Click Here for more information.

 

April

11-12, 2011

16th Annual Infectious Diseases Research Day & 3rd Annual Canadian Center for Vaccinology Symposium (CCfV)

Dr. Janice Graham gave the Keynote Address, All hands on deck: regulating the risk of biologics and vaccines.

April

1-3, 2011

NYAS 6th International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, New York Academy of Sciences, New York

Dr. Janice Graham gave a Keynote Address, All hands on Deck: Regulating the  Risk of Emerging Biotechnologies.

 

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March

19, 2011

Conference-

On the Edge: Breakthroughs and Barriers in Global Health. Mt Allison University, NB, Canada

Dr. Amrita Mishra was a presenting speaker: From Innovation to Equity: Vaccines and Global Health’

March

6, 2011

25th Anniversary Celebration of the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, N.S.

Sharon Batt was an invited presenter, On Being the 7th Nancy’s Chair.

2010    

December 1-5, 2010

Thirteenth Berlin Roundtable on Transnationality: Health Politics in an Interconnected World, Berlin, Germany

Sharon Batt-Patients’ Groups, Pharmaceutical Company Partnerships and the Negotiated Meanings of ‘What Patients Need’ in Canada.”

Novermber 20, 2010

Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans

The Marketplace of Memory: Hopes & False Profits”. Dr. Janice Graham was an Invited Discussant for symposium organized by Anne Basting “The Marketplace of Memory

November 18, 2010 American Anthropological Association annual meeting, New Orleans

Towards an Anthropology of Care and Caring: Building care into a new world becoming”. Dr. Janice Graham was an invited discussant for AAA Invited session “Circulating the Life Course: Towards an Anthropology of Care and Care Giving

August

2010

European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) annual conference, Maynooth, Ireland

Diverse anthropologies dealing with fickle funders: cleaving ‘health’ from the funding priorities of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council in Canada”. Dr. Janice Graham sat on the WCAA Panel on “Diverse anthropologies with multiple publics: Crisis or imaginative responses?”

June

1-3, 2010

CASCA Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QB, Canada

Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez was a presenter: The role of charitable organizations and donor countries in the development of vaccines.

June

3, 2010

CASCA 2010: Anthropological Connections’ in Montreal, Canada

Dr. Amrita Mishra, The Administration of a Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine for Minors in Nova Scotia.’

June

3, 2010

Canadian Anthropological Society Conference, Montreal, Canada

Dr. Janice Graham- Panel Discussant: “Introducing the Actors: Development and Rollout of a Conjugate Meningitis A Vaccine in Sub Saharan Africa"

June

2, 2010

Canadian Anthropological Society Conference, Montreal, Canada

Dr. Janice Graham- Roundtable Discussant: Anthropological Connections: Networking Practicing Anthropologists in Canada

May

31, 2010

CASCA Conference, Montreal, QB, Canada

Dr. Farah Huzair- “Governance and policy learning during the H1N1 pandemic in Canada” Anthropological Connections

May

13-16, 2010

Historical Materialism International Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez was a presenter: The Political Economy of Knowledge for Development: The Case of South America.  "World Economic Crisis of 2008 and its Impact on Latin America"

April

22, 2010

The Canadian Centre for Vaccinology (CCfV) Symposium, Halifax, Canada

Dr. Janice Graham. 21st Century Vaccines- Poster

April

18, 2010

The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) Symposium, Halifax, Canada.

Dr. Janice Graham. “Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge Translation in Canada during the H1N1 Pandemic”. Poster

April

19, 2010

The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) Symposium, Halifax, Canada

Dr. Janice Graham. “Ethics” Session Moderator

April

2010

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Symposium, Halifax, Canada Dr. Alex Borda-Rodriguez- The development of dynamic capabilities and knowledge translation: case studies from the H1N1 pandemic in Canada

March

30, 2010

Seminar / Web Cast for the Canadian Agency for Drug and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, Ontario

 Dr. Janice Graham- Discussant: Health Information - Is It A Public Good?

March

22, 2010

Anthropology Colloquium Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Dr. Janice Graham- Invited Speaker: Research, Development & Innovation: Who gets what and who doesn't?

Anthropology Colloquium 2010 Poster for Dr. Janice Graham

 

March

18, 2010

Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

Dr. Janice Graham- Invited Lecturer:

Public Lecture: Safer, Better, Faster: Will Drugs and Vaccines Be Safer or Just Easier to Get?

March

5, 2010

Global Health Conference 2010: "The Spread of Disease", Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Dr. Janice Graham- Invited speaker:

Health Inequities: A Vaccine for Meningitis in A sub Saharan Africa

February

2010

Situating Science Seminar Series, Kings College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr. Farah Huzair- Invited speaker:

H1N1: Promises and Challenges for the Vaccine Industry.

January

28, 2010

Situating Science WIP Series, Halifax, NS

Dr. Farah Huzair- Invited Speaker: “H1N1 Vaccine Innovation and Networks

January

15, 2010

International Development Studies Visiting Speakers Program, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez- Invited speaker: Knowledge for Development:Theoretical Perspectives and Current Debates.

January

15, 2010

International Development Studies Visiting Speakers Program, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez- Invited speaker:Politics of Knowledge for Development.  Global Development Series

December

2-6, 2009

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dr. Emma Varley- Pregnant? Project of Identity: Prophetic Medicine, Secular Biomedicine & Conflict in Pakistan's Northern Areas. Medical Pluralism: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Imagination of Healing session

 

 

 

Past Presentations

2009

 

November 2009

  • Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez,Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Synergies and Tensions between Rural Social Movements and Professional Researchers. Surendra Patel Memorial Lecture Series, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, November 20
  • Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
As'Sihr, Kala Jadu, Badal (Islamic Socery, Black Magic, Revenge): Woman-Centered Ritual Practice and Subversive Social Agency in Pakistan's Northern Areas. Ethnographies of Islam Workshop, Aga Khan University, London, UK, November 5
 
 
October 2009
  • Dr. Farah Huzair, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Innovation, Production and Regulation of the H5N1 Vaccine in Canada. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, October 28-31
  • Dr. Mavis Jones, CIT-PART Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Optics and opacity: The politics of transparency in the modernization of drug regulation. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, October 28-31
  • Dr. Amrita Mishra, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
From Pap Classification to Bethesda 2001: Relating to the Development of a Diagnostic Lexicon to Triage Systems. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, October 28-31 
  • Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Tied in Knots: Afflictive Magic and Maternal Mortality in Northern Pakistan. Works in Progress Session, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 19
  • Dr. Alexander Borda-Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Reorganizing the Pluri-National State in Bolivia. Invited speaker, Transformation: Latin American on the Move, International Development Series International Symposium, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 2-3
Dr. Borda-rodriguez presenting at "Transformation, Latin America on the Move, 2009
Dr. Borda-Rodriguez (center), presenting at Transformation: Latin American on the Move, International Development Series International Symposium at Saint Mary's University, Halifax [Canada], 2009
 
 
September 2009
  • Sharon Batt, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 
Triple Helix Redux: Canada's Neo-Liberal Policy Regime as Shadow Co-constructor in "Pharma'" Partnerships with Canadian Breast Cancer Patient Groups. Society for Medical Anthropology Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-28
  • Dr. Janice Graham, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 
Politics in the Guise of Deliberative Democracy: Regulating Private Goods for the Public's Health. Working with Policy Wonks: Undisciplined Perspectives on Health Policy session. Session organizers: Sylvia Abonyi, Janice Graham, James Waldram. Society for Medical Anthropology Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-28. 
  • Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Targated Doctors, Missing Patients: Obstetric Health Services and Sectarian Conflict on Northern Pakistan. Medical Anthropology and Conflict Double-Length Workshop organizer for the Society for Medical Anthropology Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, September 24-27
 
 
 August 2009
  • Dr. Emma Varley, Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Culture and the Illness Experience: Cultural Competency from an Anthropological Perspective. Culturally Competent care: Clinical Skills and Research Base. Family Medicine residents, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, August 27

January 2009 
  • Dr. Barbara Mintzes, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs: Can evidence inform policy? [abstract]
  • Dr. Georges Menahem, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Paris 13 University
How can the Decommodified Security Ratio assess the economic security provided by healthcare and disability benefits? [abstract]
 
 October 2008[Junior Scholar Lecture Series]
  • Dr. Alexandra Widmer, Assistant Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada
     
     
    Citizen, Consumers and Bio-political Forms of Power: Thinking about Health, Responsibility and Entitlement from Vanuatu to Canada
  • Dr. Amrita Mishra, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
     
    From Pap Classification to Bethesda 2001—Relating the development of a Diagnostic lexicon to Triage systems
  • Dr. Farah Huzair, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Technoscience and Research Regulation Research Unit (TRRU), Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada 
     
    Exploring Innovative Capabilities; the Case of the Hungarian Agri-Biotech Sector
  • Dr. Michael Reinsborough, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
     

    Governance and the power to manipulate unknown materials

     

2007

 

January 25th, 2007

Janice GrahamInside Out: From the Test Tube to the Dinner Table

 

Trust in Sceince Lecture Series- Situating Science

 

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