Social Science Symposium
Leacock 232 | 14:00 - 16:30 | Wednesday 27th
Duncan Pedersen, M.D. | Samia Constandi | Miriam Brouillet
GLOBALIZATION & THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTHGrowing and persistent social inequalities in the world generate more human suffering, disease and death on a global scale. The neglect of the social origins of health and disease often results in wrong and misleading claims of causality, diverting atention from the social origins of morbidity and mortality and impairing effective interventions. It is crucial to focus our attention in how large scale social forces, such as globalization and the market economy, come to have their effect on unequally positioned individuals in today's increasingly interconnected populations.
DUNCAN PEDERSEN, M.D.
Dr. Pedersen is currently Director of the Psychosocial Research Division at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre and Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is also Lecturer at the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and a member of the Montreal-WHO Collaborative Centre for Research and Training in Mental health. He is Senior Editor (Medical Anthropology) of Social Science & Medicine, an international journal.A physician (University of Buenos Aires), trained in public health (Johns Hopkins University), epidemiology and medical anthropology, has an extensive fieldwork research experience in Latin America -most importantly in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil- working amongst indigenous peoples and the urban poor. His main interest is centred on the social determinants of health and illness. More recently he has become involved in the field of trauma and social suffering and is focusing his research on the long-term impact and health outcomes of socio-political violence, terrorism and war.
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SAMIA COSTANDI
Samia Costandi is a Palestinian Canadian educator, doctoral cadidate,
writer, feminist, and activist who currently teaches as a part-time lecturer at McGill Faculty of Education as well as at Dawson College. In 1999, she obtained the Helen Prize for Women for using her strong voice to speak on behalf of her community on issues of justice, peace, and values. She has taken part in many conferences, workshops, and seminars the latest of which was a forum organized on Saturday March 9th for the International Women's Day by the Coordination and Action Committee of Women of Ethnic Diversity; the topic was Global Wars and Women. She has also written many articles on issues of concern always defending the defenseless, particularly women and children.
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MIRIAM BROUILLET
Making sense of human reproductive cloning.
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