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Professor Daniel Wikler, Harvard University

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March 6, 2018

Visiting researchers presentation

Organizers:

Introduction:

9h30 : Traumatisme et Déperditions scolaires : Une approche clinique de l'impact du traumatisme sur des enfants scolarisés victimes d'abus sexuels.

ABOUDE Louis Serge - Doctorant - université de Lausanne, Switzerland - Psychology

9h50 : How do adolescent girls and young women understand and make decisions about female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS)? An interdisciplinary qualitative study.

Barnard Emma - PhD Candidate/Academic Associate - The University of Melbourne, Australia - Sociology

10h10 : The medical history of the refugee camp

Carr Jennifer - PhD Student - University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - History of Medicine

 

10h30 : Coffee Break

 

10h50 : Ethical and Philosophical Parameters for Management of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

O'Leary Diane - Visiting Researcher - Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, United States - Bioethics - Medical ethics

11h10 : The comparative political development of mental health policy

Perera Isabel - PhD Candidate - University of Pennsylvania - United States - Political Science

11h30 : Eloge de la Fragilité à l'ère de l'Homme augmenté

Roduit Johann - PhD / Managing Director - Center for Medical Humanities & Institute of Biomedical Ethics, Zürich, Switzerland - Bioethics - Medical ethics

11h50 : HPV vaccine introduction in Mozambique: Generating knowledge from the demonstration project for decision making and planning for national roll out

Soi Caroline -  PhD candidate - University of Washington, Kenya - Medicine

12h10 : Vulnerability, Migration and Access to Health – the moral, social and political implications of asylum

Straehle Christine - Full professor - University of Groningen, Netherlands - Philosophy

 

12h30 : Lunch

 

13h30 : Beyond Health Security

Gillespie James - Associate Professor in Health Policy - Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney,  Australia - Political Science

13h50 : Exploring labour migration experiences and forced labour among Nepali migrant workers who worked outside of Nepal

Joelle Mak - Research Fellow - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , United Kingdom - Sociology

14h10 : Faecal Microbiota Transplantation: Perspectives from the Laboratory, the Clinic, and the Community

McLeod Carmen - Postdoctoral Research Fellow -University of Nottingham, United Kingdom - Anthropology

 

14h30 : Coffee Break

 

14h50 : To Be Delivered: Pregnant and Born-Again in Southwest Nigeria

Oni-Orisan Adeola - PhD Candidate - University of California, United States - Anthropology

15h10 : Drug development for neglected tropical diseases and the rise of mass-drug administration: Ethics and clinical trials during the WHO-World Bank Onchocerciasis Control Programme

Winters Janelle - PhD Fellow - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom - History of Medicine