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Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies

 

 

Health and Social Justice

1-3 October 2002

 

List of Participants & Topics

 

(Selected articles and conference abstracts in  BRIIFS vol.5, no. 1)


1- Ms Mary Crewe 
University of Pretoria

South Africa  
Topic: AIDS and Health Care in South Africa
  
2- Professor Andrey K. Demin 
Russian Public Health Association

Russian Federation 
Topic: Social Aspects of Public Health Challenges in a Period of Globalization: The Case of Russia
  
3- Professor Maurice Eisenbruch 
Center for International and Multicultural Health 
University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia 
Topic: Khmer Rouge and Traditional Healers: Were They Medical Anthropologists? Retoolers of Health and Social Justice in Cambodia?
  
4- Dr Rune Flikke 
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Trondheim, Norway 
Topic: Imagining Race and Disease: Public Health and the Development of Racial Segregation in South Africa
  
5- Professor Eugene B. Gallagher 
University of Kentucky

Lexington, USA 
Topic: Arab Illustrations and Global Issues: Medicalization in Arab and Global Society
  
6- Dr. Paula Gutlove 
Institute for Resource and Security Studies

Cambridge, USA 
Topic: Health, Human Security and Social Justice
(This paper was co-authored by Gordon Thompson.) 
  
7- Dr. Zaid Hamzah 
Former Minister of Health, Oto-Laryngologist

Amman, Jordan 
Topic: Health Care in Jordan
  
8- Professor Thomas Leonard Holdstock 
Vrije University

Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Topic: Psychology Fails to Promote Global Public Health
  

9- Professor Michael Humphrey 
University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia 
Topic: Healing and Justice after Atrocity: Challenging Impunity
  
10- Professor Craig R. Janes 
University of Colorado

Denver, USA 
Topic: Market Fetishism, Post-Socialist Institutional Culture, and Attenuated Primary Care: Producing Poor Medicine for Poor People in Post-Transition Mongolia
  
11- Mr. A. K. Jeyanithe 
University of Peradeniya

Kandy, Sri Lanka 
Topic: Injury, Ill-Health, Collective Suffering and Ethnicity among Displaced War Victims in Sri Lanka
  
12- Professor Joop de Jong 
Topic: Transcultural Psychosocial Organization, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Social Justice, Human-made and Natural Disasters: Dilemmas for Public Health
  
13- Professor Bruce Kapferer 
University of Bergen, Norway 
Topic: Sorcery and the Shapes of Globalization: Disjunctions and Continuities: The Case of Sri Lanka
  
14- Professor Jihad Makhoul 
American University of Beirut, Lebanon 
Topic: A Structural Perspective on Poverty and Health Inequalities in Lebanon
  
15- Professor Hans Egil Offerdal 
Department of Communication

ITESM-CEM, Mexico City 
Topic: Restoring Human Dignity in a Sick World: Some Selected Interfaith Perspectives on Social Justice and Health
  
16- Professor Camilo Perez Bustillo 
The City University of New York, USA 
Topic: The Right to Have Rights: International Poverty Law as a New Paradigm in the Struggle for Global Justice 
  
17- Mr. Willem van de Put 
HealthNet International, Amsterdam

The Netherlands 
Topic: A Productive Relationship between Health and Social Justice in Crisis
  
18- Professor Jack Saul 
New York University, USA 
Topic: Promoting Community Recovery in Downtown Manhattan
  
19- Dr. Charles Surjadi 
Atma Jaya Catholic University

Jakarta, Indonesia 
Topic: Not to Provide Health and Basic Social Services to the Migrants: A Dilemma for Public Health Officials in Jakarta
  
20- Dr. Fernando Valadez 
Accion de los Cristianos para la Abolicion de la Tortura, Mexico City 
Topic: Beyond Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors in Mexico
  
21- Professor Stevan Weine 
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
Topic: Local and International Responses to the Public Mental Health Crisis in Post-War Kosova
(This paper was co-authored by Ferid Agani, Ralph Cintron and Elissa Dresden.) 
  
22- Professor Allan Young 
McGill University

Montreal, Canada 
Topic: Collective Trauma, Psychiatric Morbidity, and the Epidemiology of Dubious Knowledge
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

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