Health Care in Transition in South Asia ● September 28-29, 2007 ● Killian Room ● 500 Hall of Languages ● Syracuse University


Health Care in Transition in South Asia

 

The state of health and health care in South Asia has been going through a transformation in the last two decades in the wake of increasing liberalization and privatization of health care and in the context of globalization and its impact on disease, medicine, and health care delivery. This conference—organized by the Cornell and Syracuse University South Asia Consortium—aims to explore dimensions of this transformation. Key issues to be addressed include: the growth of the private sector and of NGOs in “social marketing” and provision of health care; the growth in the nursing and medical school industry; the emergence of South Asia as a destination for “medical tourism” and as a site for the increasing commodification of body parts through organ transplants; shifting political priorities in health care; the intersections of international aid and development discourses and programs for the provision of health care with state, and community discourses, policies, and practices surrounding medicine and the body; and the impact of transformations in patent laws for pharmaceuticals as South Asian governments adjust to World Trade Organization guidelines.

 

Friday, September 28th' 2007

4:15-5:30 pm: Keynote Address: Geeta Rao Gupta, Intimate Connections: Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in a Changing World

Saturday, September 29th' 2007

Welcome by Ann Gold

9:15- 10:30: Keynote Address: Lawrence Cohen, Exception and Commitment: Understanding Health in the Century of the Slum

10:45- 12:45 am: Session I: Transformations and Challenges to health care in South Asia

Maneesha Lal: From Apollo to Zen: Promoting Medical Tourism in Twenty-First Century India

Sajeda Amin: The Privatization of Family Planning in Bangladesh,

Jennifer Hyndman: Santé/Sanity: Creating Security in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka

2:00-3:00: Session II: Graduate Student  Research in Progress

Madhura Lohokare: Negotiating with Modernity: Indigenous Healing Practices in Maharashtra

Kasturi Gupta: HIV/AIDS: International and Corporate AID in India

Karen Mcnamara: Ayurveda, Unani and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Bangladesh

3:00-5.15pm: Session III: Healthcare policy and Practice at the intersections of globalization, the state. and community: Reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

Jeremy Shiffman: The State of Political Priority for Safe Motherhood in India

Alaka Basu: Modernization and Religious differences in Child Mortality in India: Some counter-intuitive findings

Cecilia Van Hollen: Health Care Transitions for HIV Transmission: Women's responses to the shifting policy terrain for HIV and infant feeding in India.

Stacy Pigg: Lessons from the Interface: Pioneering HIV/AIDS Awareness in 1990's Nepal

For details and timings please refer to the Speaker Section.
For abstracts, please refer to the Abstract Section.

Sponsored by: The South Asia Center ▪ Moynihan Institute ▪ Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs ▪ the College of Arts and Sciences