Encouraging cross-departmental teaching and inter-divisional research at the intersection of environmental change, international development, and public health

SEMINAR SERIES, MICHAELMAS TERM 2013

Tuesdays, 5-6:30pm, Department of International Development (QEH*), Seminar Room 2

15 October, Professor Charles Godfray, Zoology, Oxford: ‘The Challenge of Feeding ~10 Billion People Sustainably and Equitably’

 5 November, Dr Vanessa Grotti, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford: ‘Giving Birth in an Amazonian Gold Rush: Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, Migration and Healthcare Policy in Suriname and French Guiana’

12 November, Dr David Brown, Overseas Development Institute, London: ‘Health and Development Issues in the African Bushmeat Trade’

26 November, Professor Kate Hill, Oxford Brookes University: ‘Problem Animals Leave but the “Conflict” Persists: People-Wildlife Narratives and People-Wildlife Interactions’

3 December,  Dr Doreen Montag, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador: ‘Development Illusions: How Diseases are Used to Sell Oil Extraction in Yasuní-ITT’

SEMINAR SERIES, MICHAELMAS TERM 2012

Tuesdays, 5-6:30pm, Department of International Development (QEH*), Seminar Room 2

• 9 OCTOBER:   Open house, drinks, informal meeting
• 16 OCTOBER, Hein De Haas (ODID): The political ecology of desertification and migration in two Moroccan cases
• 23 OCTOBER, Peter Wynn Kirby (OUCE): High-Tech Trash, Low-Tech Treasure: Transnational Circuits of E-Waste between Japan, China, and the USA
• 30 OCTOBER, Tom Thornton (ECI): Corporate Sustainability, Indigeneity, and Wellbeing:  An Alaska Native Corporation's Redefinition of Values and Assets
• 6 NOVEMBER, Doug Gollin (ODID): Tracing the Impacts of Agricultural Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methodological Challenges and New Approaches
• 13 NOVEMBER, Andrew Ainslie (BROOKES): The socio-political and environmental implications of land-use change in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
• 20 NOVEMBER, Katherine Venables (Public Health): Investigating outbreaks of asthma
• 27 NOVEMBER, Roger Few (UEA): Health, environment, poverty and justice: how relevant is the ecosystem services approach?

SEMINAR SERIES, MICHAELMAS TERM 2011

Tuesdays, 5-6:30pm, Department of International Development (QEH*), Seminar Room 2

• 11 Oct SERIES INTRODUCTION AND WINE RECEPTION
• 18 Oct 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, University of Oxford
• 25 Oct AN ECOLOGICAL LOOK AT POVERTY AND POVERTY MAPPING Dr. David Rogers, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
• 1 Nov AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE: IDEAS ABOUT LIVESTOCK DISEASES AND TREATMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA Dr. Karen Brown, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford
• 8 Nov PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES FACING THE TWIN CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND PEAK OIL Dr. Giovanni Leonardi, Health Protection Agency
• 15 Nov WHY OBESITY IS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPLEX Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, Inst. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
• 22 Nov FOOD, CLIMATE CHANGE & HEALTH: EXPLORING THE CONNECTIONS Ms. Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network
• 29 Nov 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)

SEMINAR SERIES, HILARY TERM 2011

*Please note that QEH closes its doors at 5:15 so plan to arrive before this time*

Our starting point is that health, a measure of human development, is profoundly dependent on the environment. Our goal is to analyze the best ways of researching the linkages between health in human populations, wellbeing, and healthy ecosystems.

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