[Surveillance-Studies-l] Fwd: Call for Interest: Global Governance of Disease

[Nils Zurawski]

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>From: D F J Wood <d.f.j.wood at NEWCASTLE.AC.UK>
>Subject: Call for Interest: Global Governance of Disease
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>           EUROPEAN-SOCIOLOGIST at JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 
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>
>The Global Governance of Infectious Disease:
>Risk, Surveillance and Regulation
>
>Symposium
>
>10-11 September 2008
>Newcastle University, UK
>
>
>Expressions of interest for participation are 
>invited by 31st January, 2008.  Please send: 
>name, affiliation, suggested title of paper / 
>area of interest to: Andrew Donaldson 
><andrew.donaldson at ncl.ac.uk>  and David Murakami 
>Wood <d.f.j.wood at ncl.ac.uk>.
>
>
>The entanglement of infectious diseases (of both 
>humans and animals) with the material networks 
>of the globalizing is a matter of increasing 
>concern.  Foot and Mouth Disease has shown that 
>an animal disease can cause major disruption to 
>the normal social and economic workings of a 
>modern state.  SARS showed the speed with which 
>deadly disease could transcend national borders 
>in a connected world.  The threat of a new 
>global flu pandemic, and the linking of this to 
>avian influenza, has demonstrated that the 
>boundaries that might be transgressed are more 
>than just territorial.  How should we 
>understand, control or avoid the mobilities of 
>such diseases on a global scale?
>
>This symposium is targeted mainly at human 
>geographers and social scientists in cognate 
>areas of sociology, science studies, public 
>health and politics.  We will have participants 
>from relevant policy or regulatory bodies, but 
>aim to sketch a strategic and critical social 
>science agenda that is not driven by immediate 
>policy / applied concerns but which nevertheless 
>can contribute to improved wellbeing.
>
>The cost of the event will be no more than: £150 
>for full-time, £100 for postgraduates. This will 
>be a non-residential event, so you will need to 
>find your own accommodation (a full list of 
>options will be provided).
>
>
>There will be three sequential sessions focusing 
>on three types of site at which diseases are 
>constructed as issues, problems and objects of 
>knowledge in different ways, but with the themes 
>of regulation, risk and surveillance running 
>through all three. A central point of the 
>symposium is to identify the things 'in-between' 
>the various domains involved in disease, 
>including those things which bridge the 
>nonhuman/human divide.
>
>Farmyard, Clinic and Lab
>This session will focus on the activities which 
>occur at sites of direct interaction between 
>disease and healthcare professionals, and the 
>ways in local interactions connect with other 
>scales. Comparison between human and animal 
>medicine could provide useful insights in this 
>area. Possible topics will include:
>*	Diagnosis and disease surveillance
>*	Local knowledges
>*	Organisation and knowledge exchange
>
>Models
>This session will focus on the way in which 
>diseases are represented, simulated, predicted 
>and anticipated through the use of statistical 
>analysis, computer modelling, mapping and more 
>basic field surveillance techniques. 
>Increasingly advanced modelling techniques are 
>at the heart of disease prevention and control, 
>but in the words of statistician George Box "All 
>models are wrong" so we need to put them into 
>context.  Possible topics will include:
>*	Fieldwork vs models
>*	Data collection and coordination
>*	Communication and controversy
>
>Institutions and Circulations
>This session will focus on the interaction of 
>diseases and their representations with global 
>political and economic structures, organizations 
>and processes.  The maintenance and dismantling 
>of borders and bounded territories in the face 
>of multiple flows and mobilities is a concern in 
>many areas of strategic planning, policy making 
>and regulation.  When considering infectious 
>diseases the following are possible topics:
>*	Transnational organizations
>*	Trade and (making and unmaking) boundaries
>*	Measures for global surveillance and intervention
>*	Travel, consumption and risk
>
>
>Organising Committee:
>Andrew Donaldson, CRE, Newcastle
>David Murakami Wood, GURU, Newcastle
>Valerie November, EPFL, Switzerland
>Abigail Woods, Imperial College, London
>
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Dr. Nils Zurawski
Universität Hamburg
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