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Health, Environment and Development Seminar Series - Michaelmas Term 2011
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held in Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House (QEH), Department of International Development, 5-6.30pm on Tuesdays, unless indicated otherwise below. For further information please contact Aisha Saad
Sponsored by the Dept. of International Development, the Dept. of Public Health and the School of Geography and Environment. Convened by Dr Proochista Ariana, Dr Anna Lora-Wainwright, Dr Laura Rival and Dr Peter Scarborough. Please note that QEH closes its doors at 5:15 so plan to arrive before this time. Lectures will run for 45 minutes, followed by discussion. A reception will follow the seminar to allow for informal discussions to continue.
Week 1: 5pm, Tuesday 11 October 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Series introduction and wine reception.
Week 2: 5pm, Tuesday 18 October 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Meat and health: the impact of achieving environmentally sustainable diets on deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer in the UK.
Dr Peter Scarborough, Department of Public Health, Oxford.
Week 3: 5pm, Tuesday 25 October 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
An ecological look at poverty and poverty mapping.
Dr David Rogers, Department of Zoology, Oxford
Week 4: 5pm, Tuesday 1 November 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
African knowledge: ideas about livestock diseases and treatments in contemporary South Africa.
Dr Karen Brown, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford.
Week 5: 5pm, Tuesday 8 November 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Public health services facing the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil.
Dr Giovanni Leonardi, Health Protection Agency.
Week 6: 5pm, Tuesday 15 November 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Why obesity is both simple and complex.
Prof. Stanley Ulijaszek, Inst. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford.
Week 7: 5pm, Tuesday 22 November 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
Food, climate change and health: exploring the connections
Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network.
Week 8: 5pm, Tuesday 29 November 2011, Seminar Room 2, QEH
What the poor eat? The challenges of measuring the effects of agriculture on health.
Dr Deborah Johnston, Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH).