CFP Anthropology and Mediators in the Field of Health Policies

Seminar
CFP: ANTHROPOLOGY AND MEDIATORS IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH POLICIES
April 2 – 4/2014
University of Brasília, Brazil

This event, located within the field of anthropology of health and also the anthropology of the state and politics, has the main objective to think the different actors that are in the design, implementation and experiences of health policies. Such actors can be, for example, managers, health professionals and popular therapists, "patients", their families and communities, researchers and their teams, universities and funders. How these actors relate and which health policies are being undertaken? Do they act as mediators between knowledge and various belongings? What has been called "mediation" in the field of health policy?

The main idea of the event is to strengthen the important place of anthropology in thinking about healthcare policy. What issues related to these policies interest anthropology at the level of basic, secondary or tertiary healthcare, regarding the executive power, international cooperation, social movements, etc.? How have anthropologists done research in these areas and what have been their challenges? What contribution anthropology could offer to consolidate more sensitive and inclusive health policies in the country? Can the university also act as a mediator in these policies? The fact that the event will happen in Brasilia can foster dialogue with the different (non)governamental areas that exist in the city.

Schedule

April 2nd April 3rd April 4th

Opening Conference:
Claudia Fonseca (PPGAS/UFRGS)

• Roundtable 1: “Indigenous health and public policies”
• Working Groups
• Roundtable 2: “Sexual and Reproductive Health in Public Policies
• Roundtable 3: “Long-term relations with healthcare services”

Submission of abstracts: Up to 300 words abstracts are welcomed and should be sent to the e-mail antropologiaemediadores@hotmail.com until 03/10/2014. Undergraduates, graduate students and professionals are invited to submit abstracts.

Announcement of selected abstracts: 03/17/2014. The selected abstracts will comprise the Working Groups, whose topics will also be released that day.
Submission of papers that will be presented in the Working Groups: 03/24/2014.

Further information by e-mail: antropologiaemediadores@hotmail.com. We kindly ask for full disclosure of the event.

Organized by the Department of Anthropology and the Collective Health Course of the College of Ceilândia of University of  Brasília and the Department of Anthropology of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Supported Proex/Capes and PROCAD/Casadinho.