Comparative Program on Health and Society
Seminar Series 2014-2015
We are pleased to invite you to our seminar series for the coming academic year. All seminars will be held from 10:00am
to 12:00pm in room 208N unless otherwise noted at the Munk School of Global Affairs at 1 Devonshire Place.
Date
Presenter
Title
26 November 2014
Professor Rebecca Cook
University of Toronto Faculty of
Law
Transnational Conversations about Abortion Stigma
3 December 2014,
held in 108N
Laura Bisaillon
Senior Academic Fellow
Receiving Health Care Services as an Afghan in Iran:
Reflections on Exploratory Fieldwork into the Ethics of
Care
14 January 2015
Michael Da Silva
Senior Doctoral Fellow
Realizing the Aspirations of the Right to Health Care in
Canada: A Comparative Assessment of Methods of
Implementing the Right
21 January 2015
Emily Scott
Lupina/OGS Doctoral Fellow
NGO Organizational Logistics and Shifting Aid
Mandates: The Field as Site of Authority and Power
11 February 2015
Sarah Williams
Lupina/OGS Doctoral Fellow
Birthing Culture: Indigeneity and Bio-medicalization of
Childbirth in Yucatan, Mexico
4 March 2015
Paola Sesia, CIESAS, Mexico;
Jeannie Samuel, the Dalla Lana
School of Public Health
Philip Baiden, Junior Doctoral
Fellow
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women’s Health and
Human Rights
18 March 2015
Sophie Nunnelley
Lupina/OGS Doctoral Fellow
1 April 2015
Faraz Vahid Shahidi
Lupina Research Associate
Examining the Independent Effect of Social Support on
Perceived Mental Health Care Needs Among
Canadians
The Justifications for Paternalism in Canadian Mental
Health Law: Examining Involuntary Measures through
an Autonomy Lens
Austerity as Epidemic: The New Political Economy of
Health
13 April 2015,
4-6 pm, University
College room 179;
Reception 6-8 pm
in University
College 183
Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social
Epidemiology at the Harvard
School of Public Health
Bending the Arc to Health Equity: Social Justice and the
People’s Health
(reception to follow the talk)
11 March 2015
14 April 2015,
12-3 pm, George
Ignatieff Theatre
29 April 2015
in 108N
Chair: Lisa Forman (Dalla Lana
School of Public Health)
Presenters:
Arjumand Siddiqi (Dalla Lana
School of Public Health);
Ruby Lam (Toronto Public Health)
Gary Bloch (Department of Family
and Community Medicine,
University of Toronto)
Discussants:
Anne-Emanuelle Birn (Dalla Lana
School of Public Health);
Faraz Vahid Shahidi (CPHS
Research Associate Fellow)
Max Smith
Lupina Research Associate
Roundtable: What Do We Mean By the Social
Determinants of Health? Theoretical and Practical
Challenges
Social Justice and Public Health: Policy-Maker
Perspectives