tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60272816291079009522024-03-13T21:12:31.891+00:00Health and global social justicecrossing national and disciplinary borders.
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sridhartesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17420576752143250106noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027281629107900952.post-11030365437435116162020-07-02T19:18:00.001+01:002020-07-02T19:18:02.509+01:00Taking a break from the blog<br />
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As you may noticed, I have taken a break from posting on this blog. Academic teaching and research duties have taken over my life.<br />
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I will likely return. Hopefully as COVID-19 pandemic becomes normalized.<br />
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You can follow me on twitter @sridhartweet.<br />
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And if you are interested in my academic research, you can find more info on my activities and research outputs here: <a href="https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/sridhar-venkatapuram(4fa7a876-d243-494d-81c8-d61788e5c5e2)/biography.html" target="_blank">King's College London biography page</a><br />
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If you are an academic teaching courses on bioethics, public health ethics, social justice, global justice or COVID-19, I hope that you take the time to read the book. Based on the experience of HIV/AIDS epidemic, it argues for how we should be focusing on the capabilities of people to be health, and the injustice of preventable health inequalities due to social / structural inequities.<br />
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and partner organizations seek motivated and skilled professionals
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">J-PAL was established
in 2003 as a research center at the Economics Department at MIT.
Since then, it has grown into a global network of researchers who use
randomized evaluations to answer critical policy questions in the
fight against poverty. J-PAL is propelled by a first-rate team
dedicated to research, policy, training, and other vital work,
supporting J-PAL's mission to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy
is informed by scientific evidence.</span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">Research staff
manage survey teams, perform data analysis, and support the research
activities that test and improve the effectiveness of programs
and policies aimed at reducing poverty. The bulk of positions we're
hiring for are research opportunities.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">Training staff run
Executive Education classes, custom courses, online courses, and
build capacity for monitoring and evaluation; we train implementers
and policymakers on how to become better producers and users of
evidence from impact evaluations. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">Policy staff take
the highest quality of academic research and translate it into action
on the ground by working with policymakers around the world.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;">Finance and
Administration staff are the backbone of an organization, providing
finance, IT, human resources and general administrative support and
guidance to the organization.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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(J-PAL)</span></span></a> is a center at the MIT Department of
Economics, with regional offices in Africa, Europe, Latin America
& the Caribbean, North America, South Asia, and Southeast
Asia. J-PAL's mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that
policy is informed by scientific evidence. J-PAL works to achieve
this by conducting rigorous impact evaluations, building
capacity, and informing policy.</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sridhartesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17420576752143250106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027281629107900952.post-195270162434649032016-05-27T10:17:00.001+01:002016-05-27T10:17:38.786+01:00Top 10 Prestigious Scholarships for the Best International StudentsAmazing resource: Scholarships for Development. http://www.scholars4dev.com/<br />
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If you are a bright, talented, or motivated international student, the best scholarships are for your taking. <a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/" style="background: transparent; color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">scholars4dev.com</a> lists the ten most prestigious international scholarship programs out there for the brightest international students from around the world. If you are from a developing country, also see <a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/6230/popular-scholarships-for-developing-country-students/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Popular Scholarships for Developing Country Students">top 10 scholarships for developing country students</a>.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/2876/usa-fulbright-scholarships-for-international-students/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Fulbright Scholarships">Fulbright Scholarships</a> (USA)</strong><br />The Fulbright Scholarship Program is the flagship international exchange scholarship program between the U.S. Government and 155 countries. Each year, approximately 1,800 Fulbright scholarships are awarded to excellent foreign students who wish to pursue a Masters or PhD Degree in the United States. The Fulbright Scholarship Program provides full funding for the duration of the study which includes tuition, textbooks, airfare, a living stipend, and health insurance.</div>
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See also <a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/2887/hubert-humphrey-fellowships-for-international-students/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program">Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program</a> which provides a year of professional enrichment in the United States for experienced professionals from designated countries throughout the world.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/3299/british-chevening-scholarships/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Chevening Scholarships">Chevening Scholarships</a> (UK)</strong><br />The Chevening Scholarships is the flagship global scholarship program of the British Government. Every year, it provides scholarships to around 1000 outstanding students from over 130 countries who wish to pursue postgraduate study in the UK. Chevening Scholarships are full scholarships which cover tuition fees, monthly stipend and various one-off allowances as well as international travel to and from UK.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/3710/endeavour-postgraduate-scholarship-awards/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Endeavour Awards">Endeavour Postgraduate Awards</a> (Australia)</strong><br />The Endeavour Postgraduate Awards provide full financial support for international students from Americas, Europe, The Caribbean, Middle East, Asia and the Pacific to undertake a postgraduate qualification at a Masters (up to 2 years) or PhD level (up to 4 years) either by coursework or research in any field of study in Australia. The scholarships includes tuition fees, travel allowance, establishment allowance, monthly stipend, health insurance, and travel insurance.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/2282/eiffel-scholarships-for-international-students/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Eiffel Scholarships">Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Programme</a> (France)</strong><br />The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Programme aims to attract the best foreign students for master’s and PhD degree programs at participating French Universities. Eiffel scholarship-holders receive a monthly allowance; it does not cover tuition fees. In addition, the scholarship covers various other expenses including return trip, health insurance and cultural activities.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/3543/swiss-government-scholarships-for-foreign-students/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Swiss Government Scholarships">Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships</a> (Switzerland)</strong><br />The Swiss Government, through the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS), awards various postgraduate scholarships to foreign scholars and researchers. These scholarships provide graduates from all fields with the opportunity to pursue doctoral or postdoctoral research at one of the public funded university or recognized institution in Switzerland. The scholarship covers a monthly payment, exemption of tuition fees, health insurance, air fare, special lodging allowance, etc.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/2043/gates-scholarships-for-international-students-at-university-of-cambridge/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;" title="Gates Cambridge Scholarship">Gates Cambridge Scholarships</a> (UK)</strong><br />The Gates Cambridge Scholarships are one of the most prestigious international scholarships which are open to all international students from all over the world. The scholarships are full-cost awards for graduate study and research in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. The scholarship covers the university fees, maintenance allowances, airfare, etc. About 100 new Gates Scholars are awarded annually.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/2269/clarendon-scholarships-at-university-of-oxford/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;">Clarendon Scholarships at University of Oxford</a> (UK)</strong><br />The Clarendon Scholarship Fund is a prestigious graduate scholarship scheme offering around 140 new scholarships every year to eligible graduate applicants (including international students) at the University of Oxford. Clarendon Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence and potential across all degree-bearing subjects at graduate level at the University of Oxford. The scholarships cover tuition and college fees in full and a generous grant for living expenses.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/15830/schwarzman-scholars-program-at-tsinghua-university/" style="background: transparent; color: #003366; text-decoration: none;">Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University</a> (China)</strong><br />Designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders, Schwarzman Scholars is the first scholarship created to respond to the geopolitical landscape of the 21st Century. The program will give the world’s best and brightest students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and professional networks through a one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University. The scholarship covers tuition and fees, room and board, travel to and from Beijing at the beginning and end of the academic year, an in-country study tour, required course books and supplies, lenovo laptop and smartphone, health insurance, and a modest personal stipend.</div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #555555;">We are pleased to announce the launch of the BIT PhD Scholarships Programme, a collaboration between the </span><a href="http://www.behaviouralinsights.co.uk/" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Behavioural Insights Team</a> <span style="color: #555555;">and the</span> <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">School of Public Policy, University College London (UCL)</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #555555;">These three-year scholarships will run from autumn 2016. The scholarships can be on any area of behavioural science and public policy, but strong links between the work of BIT and the research interests of staff at the School of Public Policy or other parts of UCL are preferred.<br /><br />While completing their PhD, scholarship students will work part-time at BIT, embedded within one of the relevant policy teams. Students will receive a research allowance as well as a stipend, with fees covered by BIT. Students will be supervised by</span> <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/people/academic/peter-john" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Professor Peter John at UCL</a> <span style="color: #555555;">and </span><a href="http://www.behaviouralinsights.co.uk/people/michael-sanders/" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Dr Michael Sanders</a> <span style="color: #555555;">from BIT, as well as any other relevant academics.<br /><br />UCL has considerable academic expertise in behavioural science, with members of the School of Public Policy, Economics Department, Centre for Behavioural Change, Energy Institute, and the UCL Transport Institute all conducting research in the area.<br /><br />We are very excited to announce this programme, which we hope will help to continue BIT’s strong relationship with academia. It will help us to continue our work in both creating new behavioural insights as well as translating these insights into initiatives with policy impact.<br /><br />Prospective students should submit their CV, as well as a two-page research proposal, to</span> <a href="http://www.behaviouralinsights.co.uk/wp-admin/Jacqui.Charlesworth@behaviouralinsights.co.uk" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Jacqui.Charlesworth@behaviouralinsights.co.uk</a><span style="color: #555555;">, by midnight on the 2nd of May 2016. Research proposals should make clear the specific policy problem(s) to which their research will be applied.<br /><br />For more information, please contact</span> <a href="mailto:michael.sanders@behaviouralinsights.co.uk" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">michael.sanders@behaviouralinsights.co.uk</a><span style="color: #555555;">. Informal enquiries can also directed to Peter John</span> (<a href="mailto:peter.john@ucl.ac.uk%29" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">peter.john@ucl.ac.uk</a>).<br /><br /><span style="color: #555555;">Successful applicants will be expected to complete an application process to UCL and to satisfy UCL’s entry requirements<br /><br /><strong>Job Description:</strong><br /><br />The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and University College London (UCL) are seeking to appoint two PhD students in Behavioural Science and Policy.<br /><br />Successful applicants will work on their PhD at UCL, supervised by Professor Peter John, as well as working at BIT.<br /><br />They will receive:</span></span></h4>
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<br /><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #555555;">Applicants should have a good Undergraduate degree and Masters degree in a related discipline, for example Economics, Psychology, Anthropology, or Political Science. Knowledge of statistics or econometrics, particularly the use of Stata, is desirable but not essential.</span><br /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #555555;"><strong>How to apply:</strong> Please submit a CV, a statement of interest in working for BIT and a research proposal (each to be no longer than two pages) to:</span><a href="mailto:Jacqui.Charlesworth@behaviouralinsights.co.uk" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Jacqui.Charlesworth@behaviouralinsights.co.uk</a> <span style="color: #555555;">before midnight on Monday 2<sup>nd</sup> of May.<br /><br /><strong>Date of posting: 24th March 2016</strong><br /><br /><strong>Interviews will take place w/c Monday 9<sup>th</sup> May 2016</strong><br /><br />Please note:</span></span></h4>
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We invite applications for a post of Research Associate to participate in the Wellcome Trust funded project “Towards a Humanitarian Research Ethics”. The project aims to contribute to developing a robust humanitarian health research ethics, by 1) systematically reviewing the existing literature on the ethics of conducting clinical and public health research in humanitarian emergencies; 2) identifying and interviewing key stakeholders about the unsolved ethical challenges in conducting such research; and 3) developing a larger empirical bioethics project on humanitarian health research ethics.<br /><br />The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the further development, design and implementation of the programme of research on this project, under the guidance and supervision of the Principal Investigator, Dr Annette Rid. The post holder will undertake interdisciplinary bioethics research utilising concepts and methods from bioethics, philosophy, the social sciences, and policy research. He or she will contribute to disseminating the project results, by 1) communicating to multi- and interdisciplinary audiences at seminars, workshops, conferences and public outreach events and 2) publishing peer-reviewed academic papers in high-impact bioethics, social science or other journals.<br /><br />The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualifications, within the Grade 6 scale, currently £32,600 to £38,896, per annum plus £2,323 per annum London Allowance.<br /><br />This post is offered on a fixed term contract for 12 months.<br /><br />The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 April 2016.<br /><br />Interviews will be held 12 April 2016.<br /><br />Equality of opportunity is College policy.<br /><br />To apply for this post, you will need to register with the HireWire system first to download and submit the application form. Please note, should you wish to submit a CV and/or a short statement, you will need to copy & paste these at the end of the application form as the system will only allow one document to be uploaded.</div>
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<span class="s1">The new millennium opened with much activity in global justice philosophy. The initial debates about cosmopolitanism versus nationalism have now largely died down without it being clear which side won. Some global justice scholars say the way forward is more engagement with empirical evidence and methods (Blake & Taylor Smith, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Others argue that the recognition of a plurality of contexts of justice within and beyond the state will be the distinctive mark of future global justice theorizing. There is even the further argument that while philosophers should attend to the best science of our day, philosophers should be more ambitious and frame theories about the world that the social scientists have not tested and, perhaps, cannot yet test.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Blood Oil: Tyranny, Resources, and the Rules That Run the World (2016)</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">' Tyranny, war, corruption and terrorism follow oil and other natural resources—because of the same law that once allowed the slave trade and genocide, conquest and apartheid. The West can lead the world beyond blood oil and conflict minerals to a more united, enlightened future. '</span></div>
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‘In Distant Strangers Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories and with the concepts of duty and obligation have led philosophers astray. She argues that there are serious limits to what can be demanded of ordinary human beings, but this does not mean we must abandon the moral imperative to reduce poverty.’</div>
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sridhartesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17420576752143250106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027281629107900952.post-13189021541919391732015-07-21T16:39:00.000+01:002015-07-21T17:17:39.915+01:00Visiting Ethics Fellowship - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 31 August 2015<br />
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Recognizing the struggle scientists in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can face in carving out time to gain research experience and skills, Fogarty has launched a new mentored junior faculty career development award, called the <a href="http://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/Pages/emerging-global-leader.aspx" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">Emerging Global Leader</a> program. The initiative's overarching goal is to build research capacity at foreign institutions and foster long-lasting collaborations to benefit science.</div>
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To be eligible, applicants from LMICs are required to have worked at least a year at an LMIC institution, which must be willing to release the faculty member for three-quarters of their work time, so they can pursue mentored career development activities and a research project that both addresses a health priority in their country and has potential to garner further grant support.</div>
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Grants will provide up to five years of funding and require input from mentors from both the U.S. and the LMIC, who each are accomplished investigators in the proposed research area and experienced in guiding independent investigators. In addition to Fogarty, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) are also participating in the program, and additional partners may join.</div>
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The new award, using the K43 mechanism, is similar to Fogarty's existing career development award targeted at U.S. scientists interested in global health, the <a href="http://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/Pages/research-scientists.aspx" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none;">International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) (K01)</a>. Fogarty has also reissued the IRSDA program, a longstanding program that provides protected time for global health research and career development activities. The program requires grantees to spend half their award period conducting research in an LMIC.</div>
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On 5 June 1919, John Maynard Keynes wrote to the prime minister of Britain, David Lloyd George, “I ought to let you know that on Saturday I am slipping away from this scene of nightmare. I can do no more good here.” Thus ended Keynes’s role as the official representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference. It liberated Keynes from complicity in the Treaty of Versailles (to be signed later that month), which he detested.<br />
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Why did Keynes dislike a treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers (surely a good thing)?<br />
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Keynes was not, of course, complaining about the end of the world war, nor about the need for a treaty to end it, but about the terms of the treaty – and in particular the suffering and the economic turmoil forced on the defeated enemy, the Germans, through imposed austerity. Austerity is a subject of much contemporary interest in Europe – I would like to add the word “unfortunately” somewhere in the sentence. Actually, the book that Keynes wrote attacking the treaty, <em>The Economic Consequences of the Peace</em>, was very substantially about the economic consequences of “imposed austerity”. Germany had lost the battle already, and the treaty was about what the defeated enemy would be required to do, including what it should have to pay to the victors. The terms of this Carthaginian peace, as Keynes saw it (recollecting the Roman treatment of the defeated Carthage following the Punic wars), included the imposition of an unrealistically huge burden of reparation on Germany – a task that Germany could not carry out without ruining its economy. As the terms also had the effect of fostering animosity between the victors and the vanquished and, in addition, would economically do no good to the rest of Europe, Keynes had nothing but contempt for the decision of the victorious four (Britain, France, Italy and the United States) to demand something from Germany that was hurtful for the vanquished and unhelpful for all.<br />
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The high-minded moral rhetoric in favour of the harsh imposition of austerity on Germany that Keynes complained about came particularly from Lord Cunliffe and Lord Sumner, representing Britain on the Reparation Commission, whom Keynes liked to call “the Heavenly Twins”. In his parting letter to Lloyd George, Keynes added, “I leave the Twins to gloat over the devastation of Europe.” Grand rhetoric on the necessity of imposing austerity, to remove economic and moral impropriety in Greece and elsewhere, may come more frequently these days from Berlin itself, with the changed role of Germany in today’s world. But the unfavourable consequences that Keynes feared would follow from severe – and in his judgement unreasoned – imposition of austerity remain relevant today (with an altered geography of the morally upright discipliner and the errant to be disciplined).<br />
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Aside from Keynes’s fear of economic ruin of a country, in this case Germany, through the merciless scheduling of demanded payments, he also analysed the bad consequences on other countries in Europe of the economic collapse of one of their partners. The thesis of economic interdependence, which Keynes would pursue more fully later (including in his most famous book, <em>The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money</em>, to be published in 1936), makes an early appearance in this book, in the context of his critique of the Versailles Treaty.<br />
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“An inefficient, unemployed, disorganised Europe faces us,” says Keynes, “torn by internal strife and international hate, fighting, starving, pillaging, and lying.” If some of these problems are visible in Europe today (as I believe to some extent they are), we have to ask: why is this so? After all, 2015 is not really anything like 1919, and yet why do the same words, taken quite out of context, look as if there is a fitting context for at least a part of them right now?<br />
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If austerity is as counterproductive as Keynes thought, how come it seems to deliver electoral victories, at least in Britain? Indeed, what truth is there in the explanatory statement in the <em>Financial Times</em>, aired shortly after the Conservative victory in the general election, and coming from a leading historian, Niall Ferguson (who, I should explain, is a close friend – our friendship seems to thrive on our persistent disagreement): “Labour should blame Keynes for their election defeat.”<br />
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If the point of view that Ferguson airs is basically right (and that reading is shared by several other commentators as well), the imposed austerity we are going through is not a useless nightmare (as Keynes’s analysis would make us believe), but more like a strenuous workout for a healthier future, as the champions of austerity have always claimed. And it is, in this view, a future that is beginning to unfold already in our time, at least in Britain, appreciated by grateful voters. Is that the real story now? And more generally, could “the Heavenly Twins” have been right all along?<br />
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There are many odd features of the experience of the world since the crisis of 2008, beginning in the United States. One of them is that what began as a clear failure of the market economy (particularly fed by misbehaving financial institutions) soon looked like a problem of the overstretched role of the state. The crisis, when it came, was seen – rightly, I believe – as a failure of the operation of the private financial institutions, and led to a huge demand for reinstating some of the state regulations, particularly of the financial markets, that had been gradually eliminated in the US economy through piecemeal eradication (beginning in the Reagan presidency but continuing through Democratic administrations). However, after the massive decline in 2008 of financial markets and of business confidence had been halted and to some extent reversed through the intervention of the state, especially through stimulating the economy, often paid for by heavy public borrowing, the state had large debts to deal with. The demand for a smaller government which had begun earlier, led by those who were sceptical of extensive public services and state provision, now became a loud chorus, with political leaders competing with each other in frightening people with the idea that the economy could not but collapse under the burden of public debt.<br />
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Similarly, at the international level, the global free fall following the 2008 crisis was largely halted by the move, under the visionary leadership of Gordon Brown, for a meeting of the governments of the newly formed G20 in April 2009 in London, each promising to do its best not to feed the downward spiral by domestic complicity. This turned a page in the history of the crisis successfully, but soon the story changed, with the governments being asked to get out of the way before they ruined healthy business activities.<br />
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Turning to the management of debts, suddenly the idea of austerity as a way out for the depressed and heavily indebted economies became the dominant priority of the financial leaders of Europe. Those with an interest in history could easily see in this a reminder of the days of the Great Depression of the 1930s when cutting public expenditure seemed like a solution, rather than a problem. This is, of course, where Keynes made his definitive contribution in his classic book, the <em>General Theory</em>, in 1936. Keynes ushered in the basic understanding that demand is important as a determinant of economic activity, and that expanding rather than cutting public expenditure may do a much better job of expanding employment and activity in an economy with unused capacity and idle labour. Austerity could do little, since a reduction of public expenditure adds to the inadequacy of private incomes and market demands, thereby tending to put even more people out of work. There is, of course, more to Keynes’s full theory than that, but the common-sense summary just presented is gist enough.<br />
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However, the financial leaders of Europe had a different reading – from Keynes and from a great many mainstream economists – of what was needed, and they were not going to budge from their understanding. As it is quite common these days to blame economists for failing to see the real world, I take this opportunity to note that very few professionally trained economists were persuaded by the direction in which those in charge of European finances decided to take Europe. The European debacle demonstrated, in effect, that you do not need economists to generate a holy mess: the financial sector can generate its own gory calamity with the greatest of elegance and ease. Further, if the policy of austerity deepened Europe’s economic problems, it did not help in the aimed objective of reducing the ratio of debt to GDP to any significant extent – in fact, sometimes quite the contrary. If things have started changing, over the past few years, even if quite slowly, it is mainly because Europe has now started to pursue a hybrid policy of somewhat weakened fiscal austerity with monetary expansion. If that is a half-hearted gesture towards Keynes, the results are half-hearted, too.<br />
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There is, in fact, plenty of evidence in the history of the world that indicates that the most effective way of cutting deficits is to resist recession and to combine deficit reduction with rapid economic growth. The huge deficits after the Second World War were easily tamed with fast economic growth in the postwar years (I will come back to this issue later). Something similar happened during the eight years of Bill Clinton’s presidency of the United States, when Clinton began with a huge deficit and ended with none, thanks largely to rapid economic growth. Again, the much-praised reduction of the Swedish budget deficit during 1994-98 occurred in a period of fairly fast growth of GDP. Despite political deadlocks and a largely non-functional Congress, the United States has been much smarter than Europe, on this occasion, in making use of this central understanding. The ratio of deficit to GDP has fallen in the US thanks to economic growth, which – rather than austerity – is of course the well-tried way of achieving the desired result.<br />
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Had the policy leaders of Europe (adherents of a peculiarly narrow view of financial priority) allowed more public discussion, rather than taking unilateral decisions in secluded financial corridors – encouraging no public discussion – it is possible that the policy errors could have been prevented, through the standard procedures of deliberation, scrutiny and critique. It is remarkable that this has not happened in the continent that gave the world the basic ideas of institutional democracy. The big epistemic failure in missing the lessons of the past on revival, deficit reduction and economic growth is not only a matter of wrong turns taken by the financial leaders, including the European Central Bank, but also of the democratic deficit in Europe today. It is no consolation that most of the governments in the eurozone that deployed the strategy of austerity lost office in public elections that followed. Democracy should be about preventing mistakes through participatory deliberations, rather than about making heads roll after mistakes have been made. This is one of the reasons why John Stuart Mill saw democracy as “government by discussion” (a phrase coined, along Millian lines, by Walter Bagehot), and this demands discussion preceding public decisions, rather than following them.<br />
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How was it possible, it has to be asked, for the basic Keynesian insights and analyses to be so badly lost in the making of European economic policies that imposed austerity? Some of the dominant figures in the financial world have had a long-standing scepticism of the economic relations on which Keynes focused which is being emended only now, with reality checks being made in observations of the penalty of the neglect of Keynesian relations. The bold plan by the new president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, which we have every reason to welcome, to deliver a trillion euros of “quantitative easing” (not unlike expanding the money supply) – with decisive expansionary effect – is a result of that belated recognition which is slowly changing the European Central Bank: that expansion rather than contraction is what the economy needs.<br />
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If failing to understand some basic Keynesian relations is a part of the explanation of what happened, there was also another, and more subtle, story behind the confounded economics of austerity. There was an odd confusion in policy thinking between the real need for institutional reform in Europe and the imagined need for austerity – two quite different things. There can be little doubt that Europe has needed, for quite some time, many serious institutional reforms – from the avoidance of tax evasion and the fixing of more reasonable retiring ages to sensible working hours and the elimination of institutional rigidities, including those in the labour markets. But the real (and strong) case for institutional reform has to be distinguished from an imagined case for indiscriminate austerity, which does not do anything to change a system while hugely inflicting pain. Through the bundling of the two together as a kind of chemical compound, it became very difficult to advocate reform without simultaneously cutting public expenditure all around. And this did not serve the cause of reform at all.<br />
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This is a simple enough point, and it is surprising how difficult it has proved to be to get this across. I have to confess to humbling failure in making an impact on the policymakers through my efforts on this by addressing the European Commission, the IMF, the Bank for International Settlements, and joint meetings of the World Bank and the OECD, starting in the summer of 2009.<br />
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An analogy can help to make the point clearer: it is as if a person had asked for an antibiotic for his fever, and been given a mixed tablet with antibiotic and rat poison. You cannot have the antibiotic without also having the rat poison. We were in effect being told that if you want economic reform then you must also have, along with it, economic austerity, although there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why the two must be put together as a chemical compound. For example, having sensible retiring ages, which many European countries do not (a much-needed institutional reform), is not similar to cutting severely the pensions on which the lives of the working poor may depend (a favourite of austeritarians). The compounding of the two – not least in the demands made on Greece – has made it much harder to pursue institutional reforms. And the shrinking of the Greek economy under the influence mainly of austerity has created the most unfavourable circumstances possible for bold institutional reforms.<br />
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Another counterproductive consequence of the policy of imposed austerity and the resulting joblessness, for Keynesian reasons, has been the loss of productive power – and over time the loss of skill as well – resulting from continued unemployment of the young. The rate of youth unemployment is astonishingly high in many European countries today; more than half the young people in Greece have never experienced having a job. The very process of the formation of human capability, on which Adam Smith put emphasis as the real engine of economic success and human progress, has been quite badly mishandled through the tying together of uncalled-for austerity (which no country really needed) with necessary reform (which many European countries did need).<br />
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More than 200 years ago, Adam Smith specified with much clarity in <em>The Wealth of Nations</em> how to judge the good functioning of a well-run economy. Good political economy, Smith argued, has to have “two distinct objects”: “first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or more properly to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the publick services”.<br />
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The father of modern economics, and the pioneering champion of the market system, did not have any doubt why the role of the state fits integrally into the demands of a good society. Public reasoning over generations has increasingly vindicated and supported Adam Smith’s broad vision. There are good reasons to think that it would have done the same today had open and informed public dialogue been given a proper chance, rather than being ruled out by the alleged superiority of the judgements of financial leaders, with their breathtakingly narrow view of human society and a basic lack of interest in the demands of a deliberative democracy.<br />
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It is certainly true that the policy of austerity has been advertised as the reason behind the comparative success of the British economy. This comparison is, however, with Europe, which has been in a bigger hole than Britain, with a more vigorous imposition of austerity, particularly in some countries (Greece is of course the extreme example of that – with the big shrinking of its economy, rather than having economic growth). The relatively positive growth in recent years does not make Britain’s overall experience of growth over the period of austerity particularly impressive, if we look beyond Europe. Not only is the price-adjusted GDP per capita in Britain today still lower than what it was before the crisis in 2008, but also, in the period of recovery from the low of 2009, GDP per capita has risen far more slowly in the UK than in the US and Japan (not to mention some of the faster-growing Asian economies).<br />
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Could the British voters, then, have missed the real story? That is possible, and I shall come to that possibility presently, but the voting figures do not quite bring out a groundswell of approval in favour of austerity. There is no question that Labour had a severely bad election, and has lost ground, not just in Scotland, and must rethink its priorities as well as strategies quite radically. But the parties forming the coalition government – the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats – had support from more than 59 per cent of the total vote in the election before last in 2010 (that is, before they sprang the surprise of austerity on the British public); yet the coalition parties together have managed to get only around 45 per cent in this election – after the experience of austerity. Not quite a heady success for the vote-getting ability of austerity. The Tories did get a clear majority of seats on their own (and have good reason to celebrate that outcome), but this achievement came with only 37 per cent of the votes. The success here is just like that of the Hindutva-oriented BJP in India in the elections last year, when it got 31 per cent of the ballots cast but a substantial majority of parliamentary seats. Before we start getting our economic theories from the reading of election results, we have to scrutinise a bit more the message that comes through from the votes and the seats in the constituency-based electoral systems that the UK and, following it, India happen to have.<br />
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What is not in doubt, however, is that the general public in the UK, following the crisis of 2008, has become increasingly nervous about the size of the public debt and also about the ratio of public debt to GDP. What is overlooked here is that while a national debt may have many costs (and it is not paranoiac to keep tracking it), it is not quite like an individual person’s debt, which is owed to someone else (someone quite different). An internal national debt is mainly owed to another person in the same economy. Figures of seemingly large public debt may be handy enough to frighten a population with imagined stories of ruining the future generations, but the analysis of public debt demands more critical thinking than that, rather than drawing on a misleading analogy with private indebtedness.<br />
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There are two distinct issues here. First, even if we want to reduce public debt quickly, austerity is not a particularly effective way of achieving this (which the European and British experiences confirm). For that, we need economic growth; and austerity, as Keynes noted, is essentially anti-growth. Second, what is also important to note is that while panic may be easy to generate, the existence of panic does not show that there is reason for panic. No less importantly, the public has not always been scared stiff by the size of the public debt. The public debt-to-GDP ratio was very considerably larger in Britain in every year for two decades, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, than it has been at any time since the crisis of 2008. And yet there was no panic then (when Britain was confidently establishing the welfare state), in contrast to the confused anxiety, not to mention the orchestrated fear, that seems to run down the spine of the terrorised British today, making austerity look like a fitting response.<br />
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When Britain went for pioneering the welfare state and established the National Health Service, among other ways of expanding the public services, with Aneurin Bevan inaugurating the Park Hospital in Manchester on 5 July 1948, the ratio of debt to GDP was larger than 200 per cent, much more than twice what it has been at any point in recent years. Had the British public been as successfully frightened about the debt ratio in those days, the NHS would never have been born, and the great experiment of having a welfare state in Europe (from which the whole world from China, Korea and Singapore to Brazil and Mexico would learn) would not have found a foothold. A decade later, when Harold Macmillan, as a buoyant new prime minister, told the British people in July 1957 that they had “never had it so good”, the size of government debt was more than 120 per cent of GDP – immensely higher than the ratio of roughly 70 per cent in 2010 when Gordon Brown was accused of mortgaging Britain’s future by profligacy.<br />
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The scare was not there from the late 1940s through the 1960s, with Labour as well as Conservative governments in office, perhaps because the scarers were more scarce then. And armed with good public services and a flourishing market economy, Britain steadily reduced its debt-to-GDP ratio through economic growth, while establishing the welfare state and a huge array of new public services.<br />
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Public knowledge and understanding are indeed central to the ability of a democratic government to make good policies. <em>The Economic Consequences of the Peace</em> ends by pointing to the connection between epistemology and politics, and arguing that we can make a difference to the world only by (in Keynes’s words) “setting in motion those forces of instruction and imagination which change <em>opinion</em>”. The last sentence in the book affirmed his hope: “To the formation of the general opinion of the future I dedicate this book.” In that dedication, there is enlightenment as well as optimism, both of which we strongly need today.<br />
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<em>This is an edited version of a lecture delivered by Amartya Sen at the Charleston Festival in Firle, East Sussex, on 23 May</em><br />
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<em>Amartya Sen is professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard and won the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics. He is the inaugural winner of the Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize and the author of many books, including “The Idea of Justice” (Penguin)</em></div>
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Global Health NGN Conference - website <a href="http://www.globalhealthngn.org/#!conference/cut9">here</a><br />
"Ensure the Voice"<br />
Barcelona 2015<br />
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Day 1 - Thursday 25 June<br />
08.00 - 09.00 <br />
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Registration Handout of conference material, guides and schedule. <br />
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09.00 - 09.30 <br />
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Opening ceremony Welcome by GHNGN board, introduction of the conference by the representatives of the organizing committee and conference inauguration.<br />
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09.30 - 10.30<br />
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Plenary Session I: Global Cooperation in Global Challenges Chaired by a young professional in Global health, this session will discuss the main challenges in global cooperation and the role of young professionals in overcoming these challenges. The senior professionals represent the areas of politics, academia, research and fieldwork in global health. Prior to the conference, Professor Jeffrey Lazarus will engage with the participants through Twitter on a conversation on this subject and bring up your opinions and tweets to the other panelists, Ms. Leire Pajín, Dr. Oriol Mitjá and Ms. Elena Urdaneta. Chair: Dr. Vânia de la Fuente-Nuñez.<br />
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Click here to see the biographies of all the speakers<br />
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10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break<br />
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11.00 - 14.00 <br />
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Lectures: The Grand Global Health Challenge: In these lectures, our panelists and other invited senior professionals will give individual talks on the main challenges in global health<br />
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L1: Open access to information in Global Health by ScienceOpen<br />
Communication is essential to science. The standard way of sharing ideas and experimental results is to publish them in the form of a research article in a scientific journal. This workshop will give an overview of several important aspects of the publishing process. How to choose a journal? What are the advantages of Open Access over pay-walled journals? What does it mean to transfer “Copyright” to a publisher? What are the alternative Creative Commons licenses? How does peer review work and what are alternatives? The scholarly publishing paradigm is changing fast with the digital generation introducing new forms of sharing and setting new standards. It is therefore essential for the next generation of young scientists to have a good overview of the evolving publishing landscape and make informed decisions. At ScienceOpen we strongly believe that scholarly publishing is not an end in itself, but the beginning of a dialogue to move the whole scientific venture forward.<br />
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Click here to visit ScienceOpen oficial website. <br />
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L2: One step closer to the eradication of a human disease <br />
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L3: A New look at Global Health by Elena Urdaneta.<br />
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L4: Climate Change and Health (TBA)<br />
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L5: LivingNepal response to emergencies (TBC)<br />
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Click here to see the biographies of all the speakers<br />
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14:00-16:00 Lunch Break<br />
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16:00-18:00 <br />
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Global Health Skill Workshops I: Senior professionals will impart the first round of skills-based workshops<br />
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W1. Global Health Leadership by Magda Rosenmöller<br />
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W2. The Sustainable Development Goals by Rafa Vilasanjuán/Gonzálo Fanjul. <br />
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19:00-21:00 <br />
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Global Health Cinema and reception: Screening of the documentary by medicusmundi and Kanaki Films on the tortuous path that Mozambique is living in the construction of its public health system. Since its independence in 1975, Mozambique is a country in constant change. In this context, governments, foundations, NGOs and companies preach noble intentions that seek to improve the poor health for much of the population. "A Luta Continua" (The fight continues) reviews the progress, challenges and difficulties in building a health system for everyone in a country increasingly uneven and where, sometimes, aid strategies do not always move in the same direction.<br />
This screening will be followed by a discussion on the construction of public health systems based on the strategy of primary health care and the role of international cooperation in the development of a country like Mozambique and it's health services and infrastructure.<br />
Read more about this project: http://www.medicusmundi.cat/en/a-luta-continua<br />
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Day 2 - Friday 26th June<br />
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09.00 - 10.30 <br />
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Plenary Session II: Ensure the voice of young professionals in Global Health Challenges: Chaired by a senior proffesional, this session will feature young global health leaders and professionals from different organisations and institutions. They will discuss how to ensure the voice of young professionals, with remarks on the comments and opinions made by the senior professionals on the first plenary session.<br />
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Chair: Professor Jeffrey V. Lazarus, University of Copenhagen and LUHS Medical Academy <br />
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Simone Mohrs, Germany – Swedish Network for International Health<br />
Miguelhete Lisboa, Mozambique - PhD Student in International Health, NOVA University of Lisbon<br />
Aymen Meddeb, Tunisia - Young Leaders for Health<br />
Caity Jackson, Canada - This Week In Global Health<br />
Abubakar S. Hoza, Tanzania - PhD student, Medical Microbiology, University of Leipzig<br />
Fidel Buddy, Liberia - Union of Liberian Organizations in the UK<br />
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Click here to see the biographies of all the speakers<br />
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10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break<br />
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11.00 - 14.00 <br />
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Global Health Skills Workshops II: Young professionals from different institutions and organisations will host the second round of skills-based workshops (Participants will be asked to choose three workshops).<br />
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W1. Global Health 101: Multidisciplinarity solving issues by Abubakar hoza. <br />
Through this workshop, it is envisaged that as global health participants, we will be able to develop partnerships skills and networks that will help developing countries design effective and sustainable measures that will help solve an important global health issue.<br />
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W2. How to establish a national network in the field of global health by the SNIH.<br />
Within this workshop you will gain practical guide from two co-founders of Swedish Network for International Health (SNIH) on how to establish national and regional networks on your own area to strengthen the role of global health on a local level and to provide support for students and young professionals in the beginning of their career.<br />
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W3. Global health, Global network: Using social media to network into your global health career by Caity Jackson from TWIGH<br />
In a time where our phones and technologies seem like extra limbs, it is a natural process that our networking game has moved past personal interaction and into the world of social media. This is great news for a subject that is in its name alone, a global field. This workshop will focus on highlighting the different social media channels and techniques to virtually network yourself in your desired career realm.<br />
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W4. Health in all policies: learning how to negotiate for health development by Aymen Meddeb from Young Leaders for Health.<br />
This workshop is designed to be an introduction to negotiation for health development. <br />
After a short theoretical introduction to the strategies and tools, the participants will engage in small groups in intersectorial negociations using different case studies. Finally, we will together analyse the process of negotiating, the outcomes and how strategies could be improved.<br />
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W5. Building sustainable research capacity in social determinants of health for LMICs<br />
Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Nelly Salgado de Snyder and German Guerra, National Institute of Public Health (INSP), México. *[On behalf of SDH-Net EU Funded project.<br />
The purpose of this mini- workshop is to:<br />
-Highlight and jointly discuss the role of research to support local action to reduce health inequalities and the on-going challenges;<br />
-Provide an overview of how to build sustainable research capacity in Social Determinants of Health (SDH) for Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) settings, based on the SDH-Net experience(http://www.sdh-net.eu/);<br />
-Demonstrate the use of the capacity building resources developed and freely available in the SDH-Net virtual learning platform, including how to access and use them and provide an explanation of the usefulness of the material in different settings;<br />
-Briefly pilot together one on-line SDH-Net courses: ‘Essentials of SDH’, and Jointly discuss the sustainability of SDH-Net products and similar actions; the role of South-North Global Health Research Collaborations; on-going challenges faced by LMIC researchers and national research systems; how policies and decisions makers can support the research capacity building process in LMIC.<br />
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W6. Find your PhD programme and learn what you need to know for a successful PhD application by PhD students from different programs:<br />
-Xu Wang, China. PhD programme, evidence-based Medicine, Universite Rene Descartes, France<br />
-Sofía Mira, Spain, PhD Transglobalhealth.<br />
-Steven Marcos, Egypt. PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (UCL).<br />
-Camila González-Beiras, Spain. PhD Global Public Health, University of Porto and NOVA Unviersity of Lisbon, Portugal.<br />
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W7: Sanitation in rural and low-resource settings by MANAVTA<br />
This will be an interactive workshop where participants will learn about sanitation in rural and low-resource settings. This will be done through simulating a community mobilizing intervention. Bring your creativity! We will need your participation!<br />
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W8. Ethics in Global Health by Vânia de la Fuente-Nuñez, UCL.<br />
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Click here to see the biographies of all the speakers<br />
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14.00 - 16.00 Lunch Break<br />
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16.00 - 17.30 <br />
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Final Workshop: Find your way by Jordi del Bas. After last year's success, Jordi is back to help us "find our way" in global health with an updated version of his inspiring career workshop.<br />
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17.30 - 19.00 "<br />
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Free style" Mingling and drinks with GH professionals: Informal gathering at the university patio with professionals from different backgrounds and institutions.<br />
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19.00 - 19.30 <br />
GHNGN Projects: Introduction to our Mentorship Programme: The GHNGN upcoming mentorship program in collaboration with the SNIH aims to create multidisciplinary and international groups for advice and research. By Suvi Ristolainen, Finland, SNIH and Olumide Ogundeji, UK, GHNGN.<br />
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Click here to visit the Global Health Me, website! <br />
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19.30-20.00 Conclusions and Good-Bye<br />
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21.00 – Sunrise Tapas Dinner at Barceloneta Beach.<br />
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-Ensure the Voice of Young Professionals in Global Health-<br />
The Global Health Next Generation Network 2nd Annual Summer Conference.<br />
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Conference Fee: 65 Euros* via PayPal or bank transfer<br />
* Registration fees includes: conference materials, lunch, coffee breaks and a drink & tapas on Friday night at Barceloneta<br />
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Conference location: <br />
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Facultat de Medicina (Faculty of medicine, main entrance)<br />
Carrer de Casanova, 143<br />
08036 Barcelona<br />
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Public Health Research Initiative (PHRI)</h3>
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Public Health foundation of India (PHFI) in collaboration with Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB, A Statutory Body under Department of Science and Technology (DST)) aims to set up anextramural fund to provide the Indian researchers focused on public health from institutions of repute, as per an established process.</div>
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PHRI will enable young Indian researchers to carry out clearly defined research project at a place of their choice up to a period of 36 months.</div>
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Project Duration and Cost</h3>
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These grants will be awarded for research studies of public health importance in India. The estimated amount of the available research grant is limited to 30 Lakh INR per fellowship. The total duration of the grant will not exceed more thanTHREE years.</div>
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The applicant must possess a Post-Graduate degree from an accredited institution in any domain related to public health, including medical and non-medical sciences, nutrition, physiotherapy, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, social sciences, law and humanities. It would be desirable if the applicant has a doctoral degree. (Applicants related to Biomedical, Biophysics and biochemistry are excluded from PHRI fellowships)</div>
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The applicant must be40 years or less at the time of applying for the PHRI Research Grant, age relaxation of 5 years is applicable for female or if applicant belong to SC/ST/OBC then</div>
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a) Online application formats with detailed guidelines are available at the website www.phfi.org Guidelines for Submitting a proposal</div>
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<li style="line-height: 21.6000003814697px; margin-left: 35px;">Broad Objective</li>
<li style="line-height: 21.6000003814697px; margin-left: 35px;">Specific objectives</li>
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<li style="line-height: 21.6000003814697px; margin-left: 35px;">Timeline</li>
<li style="line-height: 21.6000003814697px; margin-left: 35px;">Implications for future research</li>
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Area of work:</h3>
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Area proposed by candidate should be clearly defined research area in any aspect of Public Health like Public Health Nutrition, Non Communicable Diseases, Infectious Diseases and Public Health Policy etc.</div>
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A project site in India, depending on the demand of the research study.</div>
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The PHFI reserves the right to reject the fellowship application in case candidate DOES NOT FULFIL minimum qualification or supplies any false information.</div>
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Public Health Research Initiative (PHRI) Fellowship: 2015</div>
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Online submission will close by 15 June 2015 after 5:00 PM.</div>
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Registration is open for the 2015 Conference of the Human Development and Capability Association, hosted in Washington, DC, September 10-13, 2015 by<a href="http://www.georgetown.edu/" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;">Georgetown University</a>. Register by July 10 to receive reduced rates.<br /><br />To register, please go to: <a href="http://hd-ca.org/conference-registration" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">http://hd-ca.org/conference-registration</a><br /><br />Plenary speakers will include:</div>
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<li><a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum/" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;">Martha Nussbaum</a>, Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/zedillo.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Ernesto Zedillo</a><a href="http://www.ycsg.yale.edu/zedillo.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">,</a> former president of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization</li>
<li><a href="http://heckman.uchicago.edu/page/professor-james-heckman" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;">James Heckman</a>, Nobel laureate in economics and Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago</li>
<li><a href="http://www.yale.edu/polisci/sbenhabib/" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;">Seyla Benhabib</a>, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University </li>
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Information about plenary speakers, accommodations, and other aspects of the conference are available at the <a href="http://hd-ca.org/conferences/2015-conference-washington-d-c" style="color: #6dc6dd; word-wrap: break-word;">conference website</a>.<br /><br />Requests for scholarship support are now being reviewed. Decisions will be communicated as soon as possible.</div>
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Global Justice Philosophy in 2015 -Taking Stock
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The new millennium opened with much activity in global
justice philosophy. The initial debates
about cosmopolitanism versus nationalism have now largely died down without it
being clear which side won. Some scholars of global justice say the way forward
is more engagement with empirical evidence and methods (Blake & Taylor
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empirical evidence and methods has been a long standing
and defining aspect of the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen and
Martha Nussbaum. Others argue that the recognition of a plurality of contexts
of justice within and beyond the state will be the distinctive mark of future
global justice theorizing. There is even
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of our day, philosophers should be ambitious and frame theories about the world
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A one-day 'HDCA Pre-conference' event takes stock of the
current state of global justice theorizing. The day begins with Leif Wenar
presenting from his new book Blood Oil which exemplifies engagement with
empirical evidence. Other scholars will present work taking new directions in
global justice theorizing. And the day will conclude with the opening plenary
session of the HDCA conference featuring a presentation by Martha Nussbaum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The annual Human Development and Capability Association
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' Tyranny, war, corruption and terrorism follow oil and
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sridhartesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17420576752143250106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027281629107900952.post-60268320084655839632015-04-21T09:51:00.002+01:002015-04-21T09:52:50.196+01:00Paul Farmer Kapuscinski Lecture: Failure to collide: Ebola and modern medicine<iframe frameborder="0" height="438" scrolling="no" src="http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/61341302?ub=ff3d23&lc=ff3d23&oc=ffffff&uc=ffffff&v=3&wmode=direct" style="border: 0px none transparent;" width="720"> </iframe><br />
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<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/" style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;" target="_blank">Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream</a>sridhartesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17420576752143250106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027281629107900952.post-21584469033832289572015-04-12T18:56:00.000+01:002015-04-12T18:56:50.959+01:00Paul Farmer Lecture - 20 April 2015 - 1700 GMT - livestream link <div class="span4" style="background-color: white; float: left; font-family: muli; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 20px; width: 300px;">
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When: 20th April 2014 at 6:00pm BST / 7:00pm CET (<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Paul+Farmer+at+Kapuscinski+Development+Lectures&iso=20150420T18&p1=136&ah=2" style="color: #003191; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; line-height: 32px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-decoration: none;">check time around the world</a>).</div>
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Venue: King’s College London, Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom</div>
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You can join the lecture by:</div>
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<li style="color: #393939; font-size: 14px;">coming to the event in London</li>
<li style="color: #393939; font-size: 14px;">following livestreaming from the event at <a href="http://kapuscinskilectures.eu/" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">kapuscinskilectures.eu</a></li>
<li style="color: #393939; font-size: 14px;">asking your questions to Paul Farmer via Twitter using <a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23kaptalks&src=typd" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;">#KAPTalks</a> hashtag</li>
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<strong>Registration for the event is closed for now (we reached room capacity). You can still send a request to be on the waiting list by <a href="mailto:kdl2015waitinglist@gmail.com" style="color: #003191; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-decoration: none;">sending an email here</a>. </strong></div>
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Please note that the event will be livestreamed at <a href="http://kapuscinskilectures.eu/" style="color: #003191; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro'; line-height: 32px; padding-bottom: 10px; text-decoration: none;">http://kapuscinskilectures.eu</a>.</div>
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In December 2012, Dr. Paul Farmer was appointed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as the UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community Based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti. In this capacity, he is working closely with all key partners and is providing guidance on how to improve health and well-being in resource poor settings based on his experience building models of community-based medicine. He is also helping galvanize support for the elimination of cholera in Haiti, and is using the data gathered from the Office of the Special Envoy for Haiti to advise on lessons learned and how those can be applied in Haiti and other settings. Dr. Farmer served as Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti (2009 -2012). In that capacity, he supported Special Envoy President Clinton and the people of Haiti in implementing the Government of Haiti’s priorities for the recovery effort. Dr Farmer holds an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he is a University Professor, Harvard’s highest distinction for a faculty member. Dr. Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH, 1987), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services, supports the building and strengthening of local health systems, and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty.</div>
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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy<br />
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Review article: the moral right to health: a survey of available conceptions<br />
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In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of both the philosophical questions engendered by the idea of a human right to health and the potential of philosophical analysis to help in the formulation of better policy. In this article, I attempt to locate recent work on the moral right to health in a number of historically established conceptions, with the aim of providing a map of the conceptual landscape as to the claims expressed by such a right.<br />
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sridhartesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17420576752143250106noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6027281629107900952.post-49209167501170064072015-04-08T10:20:00.003+01:002015-04-08T10:20:53.989+01:00USA wants to be the healthiest country by 2030<br />
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In 1995, former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed Proclamation 6776 recognizing National Public Health Week calling upon “all Federal, State, and local public health agencies to join with appropriate private organizations and educational institutions in celebrating this occasion with activities to promote healthy lifestyles and to heighten awareness of the many benefits good health brings.”</div>
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Twenty years later, we’re kicking off <a href="http://www.nphw.org/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003d71; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">National Public Health Week</a> 2015 with a bold goal tied to this year’s theme, “Healthiest Nation 2030.”</div>
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What does this mean? Simply put, American are not the healthiest people in the world. We spend more on health care but live shorter lives and suffer more health issues than our peers in other high-income countries. To create the healthiest nation, we all need to start by pledging — and you can<a href="http://action.apha.org/site/PageNavigator/pledge_2030.html?utm_source=Blog&utm_medium=Social&utm_term=pledge&utm_content=HN1G&utm_campaign=NewswirePLEDGE" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003d71; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sign our pledge right here</a> — to take two steps: creating a healthy <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">me</em> and creating a healthy <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we</em>.</div>
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Each day we’ll emphasize a different way to move us closer to becoming the healthiest nation.</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 3px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nphw.org/tools-and-tips/themes/raising-the-grade" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003d71; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Monday, April 6</a>: <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Raising the Grade.</strong> The U.S. trails other countries in life expectancy and other measures of good health, and this holds true across all ages and income levels. Too many people, including some of our political leaders, still believe we have the best health care in the world. We have great doctors, state-of-the-art hospitals and are leaders in advanced procedures and pharmaceuticals – yet our health ranks poorly when compared to other countries. To kick off NPHW 2015, the public health community will come together to talk frankly about what the data reveal about America’s public health.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 3px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nphw.org/tools-and-tips/themes/starting-from-zip" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003d71; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, April 7</a>: <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting from ZIP.</strong> Today, your ZIP code says too much about your health. Within the United States, there are unacceptable disparities in health by race and ethnic group, state by state and even county by county. The effort to make the U.S. the Healthiest Nation in One Generation starts with equity across our communities. During the second day of NPHW 2015, the public health community will shine a light on local/state/regional disparities.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 3px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nphw.org/tools-and-tips/themes/building-momentum" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003d71; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, April 8</a>: <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Building Momentum.</strong><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong>Influential leaders, companies and organizations are taking important steps in line with creating the healthiest nation: just look at recent actions by CVS, America’s major food and beverage companies, RWJF, the American Planning Association, Michelle Obama, and many others. On the third day of NPHW 2015, the public health community will outline major recent changes and what they mean for our health.</li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 3px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nphw.org/tools-and-tips/themes/building-on-20-years-of-success" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #003d71; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday, April 10</a>: <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Building on 20 Years of Success.</strong> 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of APHA coordinating National Public Health Week, and the accomplishments of the public health community over the last two decades are significant, such as a 25-year improvement in the average lifespan for Americans and a 70 percent reduction in HIV/AIDS-related deaths. During the fifth day of NPHW 2015, the public health community (and especially public health student leaders!) will come together to celebrate these and other accomplishments and bring a renewed focus to the work ahead – and what it will take to become the Healthiest Nation in One Generation.</li>
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Reflections on a 38-year career in public health advocacy: 10 pieces of advice to early career researchers and advocates</h1>
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Simon Chapman</div>
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Published 30 March 2015. <a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#.VRiUxn36zUI.twitter">doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17061/phrp2521514 </a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Citation: Chapman S. Reflections on a 38-year career in public health advocacy: 10 pieces of advice to early career researchers and advocates. Public Health Res Pract. 2015;25(2):e2521514</div>
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Introduction</h2>
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In the late 1970s, I worked with others to try to have the actor Paul Hogan removed from Winfield cigarette advertising.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList1" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span></a> It was, and remains, the most successful tobacco advertising campaign in Australian history. Hogan had immense appeal with teenagers. This made his role a clear breach of the voluntary code of advertising self-regulation that was then operating.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList2" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span></a></div>
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Our private, polite efforts to get something done through the complaints system were virtually ignored until we went public through the media. Ten-thousand watt lights tend to concentrate the attention of those with responsibility to act. And so act they finally did. Hogan was removed 18 months after we started complaining.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList1" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">1</span></a></div>
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I learnt a big lesson very quickly: sunlight makes a very strong antiseptic for malodorous health policy. And there is no sunlight stronger than getting an issue major media attention.</div>
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I soon discovered that there were remarkably few analytical histories of how either large or small public health advocacy campaigns and policy battles had been won or lost. So I set out to change that by writing books<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList3" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">3–6</span></a> and dozens of papers on the process I had often been part of.</div>
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Below are 10 key lessons I’ve learnt in public health advocacy. There are many more, but these 10 are absolutely critical.</div>
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Lesson 1: always respect evidence, and if the evidence changes, so should you</h2>
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Evidence must always be the granite bedrock of all public health advocacy. Evidence evolves through stages. It starts with hypothesis-generating claims and observations, and moves through to the gold standards of large-scale cohort epidemiology and randomised controlled trials in real-world settings.</div>
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As evidence mounts, things that once looked true or effective can sometimes turn out not to be. We have seen the cancer screening and dietary areas slowly and sometimes reluctantly coming to terms with the fact that past doctrines are being eroded by the tide of incoming evidence.</div>
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Careers are often built on lifetime commitment to particular phases of evidence. But if the evidence changes, it is absolutely critical for public trust in the integrity of public health that we acknowledge the facts have changed and, accordingly, that we have changed our minds too.</div>
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It is important to note that the internet has changed forever the politics of expertise. For a long time, expertise was exercised in forums that were largely inaccessible to the public and handed down to the populace as advisories and campaigns. But today, access to unprecedented amounts of research and the ability to disseminate it to millions has opened up a kind of anarchy of ‘expertise’ that poses a massive threat to continuing public confidence in public health.</div>
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Two illustrations of the advance of junk and low-quality science are the resilience and influence of climate change denialism, and the current efforts by e-cigarette interest groups to claim that e-cigarettes have revolutionary potential to make smoking history.</div>
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The interest groups behind these two major issues are succeeding in building momentum that may spread to challenge decades of public health and safety legislation.</div>
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Public health practitioners today face unprecedented challenges to preserve and strengthen public and political confidence in the evidence base for public health policy. Challenging and confronting low-grade and self-interested evidence from such forces will never be more important. It is the very worst time to retreat into unnoticed and inconsequential debates within the walls of academia.</div>
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Lesson 2: be clear and concrete about what you want to change or support</h2>
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People often say, “tobacco control has done so well in changing policy to reduce smoking, what lessons do you have for our issue?” My first question to them is always what is it they want to achieve. Almost invariably they answer with a goal, such as reducing obesity or problem drinking. Sometimes they talk about an important but obtuse value like “reducing health inequalities” or “getting greater attention to the social determinants of health”.</div>
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Talking about complex and worthy abstractions is important and meaningful to small groups of specialists. But this is not how ordinary people talk. Public health is often mired in language with little meaning outside the cognoscenti. A ‘policy’ to most people is something you get in the mail once a year from your insurance company. Policy change may be your goal, but policy will not change unless you make it crystal clear what you want from policy makers. That’s what we did with plain packaging for cigarettes: every square centimetre of the pack, the fonts, the colours, was specified following research with target groups. It could not have been more focused.</div>
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Take, for example, alcohol advertising controls. A colleague, Andrea Fogarty, interviewed 28 of Australia’s leading alcohol policy researchers, who offered generalisations about the need for ‘controls’. But once asked about precisely what sort of controls they wanted introduced, there was little consensus. There was no clear, sharp message for policy makers and the public to consider.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList7" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">7</span></a></div>
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I try to focus colleagues by asking them to pull their attention into the foreground. What precisely needs to happen to reach the broad health goals so easily articulated? <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Precisely</em> what policies, legislation or funding would they like the government to put in their Christmas stocking next year? Once that’s decided, the meat and potatoes work of strategic, policy-relevant research can occur along with the precision ‘bombing’ of false arguments from those opposed to change.</div>
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Lesson 3: “It’s better to be looked over, than overlooked” (Mae West)</h2>
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I’ve never seen sense in applying for grants, doing years of work, and then parking the results in paywalled journals where only other academics can access it. The attitude that expertise carries no responsibility to ensure evidence reaches the public and policy makers is bizarre.</div>
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A few years ago, a National Health and Medical Research Council project I led with Wayne Hall (Professorial Fellow at the University of Queensland) interviewed 35 Australian public health researchers who had been voted by their peers as Australia’s most influential researchers working in six fields. Large majorities agreed or strongly agreed that researchers had a duty to influence policy and to draw public attention to their work.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList8" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">8</span></a></div>
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As researchers, we undertake research and systematically review it to provide evidence to lever policy and practice change or defend existing policies and practices. But there is only a small number of people who have the power to effect change or defend good policies. The most important of these are politicians. And guess what? They don’t read research journals!<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList9" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">9</span></a></div>
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During nearly 40 years, I have had countless occasions to speak to prime ministers, health ministers, their cabinet colleagues, and thousands of influential people in every walk of life. I’ve done this as they lay in bed, ate breakfast, drove their cars, sat in their living rooms and relaxed in their shorts and T-shirts on holidays. By contrast, I have had face-to-face meetings with politicians perhaps 100 times in my life. Let me explain.</div>
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When I first met former health minister Nicola Roxon, we shook hands and I said I didn’t think we had met. She replied that she felt she had known me half her life. This could have only meant that she had heard me and read of my work in the news media. She was one of the highly influential people I had spoken to, often without knowing. She was already very receptive to various issues that my colleagues and I had been emphasising for years. If you avoid the media, very few people will ever learn about your work and what needs to be done. You and your research are far less likely to be influential.</div>
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If you care about making a difference, you will put aside the regrettably still-prevalent attitude in some institutions that you should not “dally with the Delilah of the press”.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList10" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">10</span></a></div>
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Lesson 4: study the media</h2>
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If you want to be a potent media advocate for evidence and policy change, you need to know how the media works and how you can best be part of it. Many of you may have taken days to prepare a 10–15 minute presentation. The lucky ones will speak to 300 or so in a plenary, most will get only 40–50 people in a breakout session.</div>
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But a few will be tapped by journalists at the conference. If you get interviewed for radio or TV news, your message might be heard by hundreds of thousands of people – sometimes millions. To maximise these unparalleled opportunities, you need to understand the medium and programs on which you appear. On Australian television news, the time anyone gets to speak in a 90-second item averages 7.2 seconds, with an interquartile range of 4.8–9.2 seconds.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList11" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">11</span></a> Knowing that, you can plan precisely what you are going to say and emphasise.</div>
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When print journalists request comments (and this increasingly will happen via email), I try to drop everything and send a selection of one- or two-sentence options. This makes journalists’ jobs easier and they appreciate that.</div>
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Again, knowing about length restrictions, you can shape a message with Exocet precision. Try to make every quote you send a potential ‘breakout box’ rather than some anodyne, forgettable ‘memo to the public’. This will mark you as ‘good talent’, and they’ll contact you again and again.</div>
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Above all, be accessible. This should be so obvious. For seven years, I was a regular guest on Adam Spencer’s Sydney ABC breakfast program with a listening audience of half a million. I was curious about this and emailed him for this presentation. He told me immediately, “because you always answer your phone. The number of people we rang and they missed out because they didn’t realise tomorrow morning was their one shot was incredibly frustrating”.</div>
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Lesson 5: use ‘killer facts’</h2>
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Every year, people are exposed to thousands of facts, claims and narratives about hundreds of health issues. Much of it is like informational wallpaper, forgotten moments later, contradicted by competing claims and washed away on the tide of tomorrow’s more arresting news. Some issues rise above the rest and compel political action. Many plod along unchanging and others sink without trace.</div>
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A basic goal in advocacy is to have your definition of the issue in a policy debate become the dominant, top-of-mind way people – and especially politicians – think about that issue.</div>
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Killer facts<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList12" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">12</span></a> are like musical earworms: once they’re inside your head, it is difficult to get them out. They tend to kill off competing definitions of the issue. If they employ powerful and repeatable analogies, before and after comparisons, and humour if appropriate, this can really help. I heard one recently: “Public health is about saving lives … a million at a time”.</div>
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Here are some examples:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The US has 13.5 times Australia’s population, 5.9 times Australia’s rate of gun ownership and 305 times Australia’s gun homicide rate. So more guns make a country safer?</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">In the 18 years before Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms, there were 13 mass shootings (five or more deaths, not including the perpetrator). There have been precisely none in the 19 years since.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">For four of the past five years, quad bikes have been the leading cause of non-intentional injury death on Australian farms. This is unique internationally, as in all other Western nations, tractors continue to be the leading cause of injury deaths.</li>
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Every advocate, for every issue, needs to stock up on killer facts. Plan to use at least one of them every time you are interviewed.</div>
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Lesson 6: values are everything</h2>
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As stated, facts and evidence are the bedrock of public health advocacy. But unless people <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">care</em> about an issue, they are highly unlikely to pay attention to it, let alone act on it. Caring about something is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">always</em> a necessary, but not a sufficient, precondition for support and action.</div>
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Public health issues often feature in the news because they richly illustrate narratives about <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">values</em>: mini dramas and secular parables about adversity and the solutions needed. These include the humane imperative to reduce early death and suffering; the injustice of inequitable distribution of disease and access to services; and stories about those who put financial gain ahead of population health.</div>
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So after you’ve filled your kit bag with killer facts, you need to then take an inventory of the values that make these facts even more compelling. For example, killer facts about tobacco industry expansion in nations with low literacy are powerful because they evoke eons of examples of the Pied Piper mythology: wolves in sheep’s clothing who lead the vulnerable into illness and death. Your facts and evidence should be anchored firmly to the values that will make them resonate with what George Lakoff calls ‘moral politics’.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList13" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">13</span></a></div>
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You also need to take an inventory of your vulnerability to opponents framing your position as embodying negative values, and then seek to strategically reframe these as positives. The ‘nanny state’<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList14" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">14</span></a> epithet, for example, can be easily reframed positively by pointing out all the benefits caused by regulations and standards that we all take for granted. As I stood in my narrow hotel shower recess this morning, I whispered a silent “thank you” to the public health nannies who ensured via enforceable safety glass standards that if I slipped, the glass would not shatter and cut me to ribbons.</div>
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Lesson 7: experts are fine, but they are not ‘a living thing’</h2>
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A journalist once said the above to me<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList15" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">15</span></a>, and I’ve never forgotten it: people who live with the diseases we try to prevent appear more in the news media than experts or politicians.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList11" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">11</span></a></div>
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When an expert speaks, we may admire their coherence, grasp of the issues and ability to simplify complexity. But if a person suffering a problem speaks and does the same, it can be doubly powerful. Ordinary people can make amazing advocates, and we should work with them far more. They bring a compelling authenticity to an issue.</div>
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Lesson 8: use social media. A lot</h2>
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The internet has utterly revolutionised our lives. And utterly transformed advocacy. There are simply massive global participation rates in social media. Anyone in public health who is not part of this is the equivalent of a scholar in the Gutenberg era who declined to show interest in the potential of books.</div>
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I’m a heavy Twitter user. If you’re like I used to be and thought Twitter sounded like some sort of time-wasting indulgence for vapid twits, you may have already pulled the shutters down. But look what you are missing out on. Let me give you three examples.</div>
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The paper I published that has the most internet downloads looked at the impact on multiple killings and total gun deaths of the post–Port Arthur gun law reforms.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList16" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">16</span></a> It has had nearly 124 000 downloads since 1996, with 86 000 in December 2012 after I tweeted the link following the US Sandy Hook massacre. It has been cited 109 times.</div>
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A preprint of my much-tweeted paper on the nocebo effect and wind farm health complaints<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList17" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">17</span></a> is the most downloaded item in the entire University of Sydney eScholarhip repository and featured in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2hO4_UEe-4&feature=youtu.be&a" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">video</a> that has been viewed 4.02 million times:</div>
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My most <a href="https://twitter.com/SimonChapman6/status/472132442032054272/photo/1" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">retweeted tweet</a> was one I sent after Treasurer Joe Hockey’s public remark about wind turbines being an ugly blight on the landscape. It has had 2894 retweets, so given the exponential nature of retweets, probably well over a million people have seen it.</div>
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Lesson 9: successful advocacy takes time</h2>
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Much public health research focuses on proximal associations<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList18" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">18</span></a> between interventions and outcomes – weeks, months, sometimes a year or two. But advocacy’s dividends often take decades to deliver.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList19" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">19</span></a></div>
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Smoking was first banned on public buses and trains in NSW in 1976. It took until 2006 – 30 years later – before such bans extended to working environments where the problem was worst, and where, in a totally rational world, smoke-free areas should have started. Even today, high roller rooms in some casinos allow smoking: it’s apparently a little known fact that second-hand smoke from wealthy gamblers is unique in not posing health risks to others.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList20" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">20</span></a></div>
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Lesson 10: grow a rhinoceros hide</h2>
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Finally, unless you are an advocate for an utterly uncontroversial policy (I was going to say ‘for a mother’s milk policy’, but of course even breastfeeding gets attacked in some contexts), as soon as your work threatens an industry or ideological cabal you will be attacked, sometimes unrelentingly and viciously.</div>
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I’ve been called a veritable sewer of names on social media, often by anonymous trolls and tobacco industry-funded bloggers. I’ve been attacked in the coward’s castle of parliament under privilege, and on the Alan Jones radio program (and received a written apology and legal costs paid), falsely accused of being an undeclared paid advocate for the wind and pharmaceutical industries, and sent white feathers each year on the anniversary of the 1996 Port Arthur gun massacre. My university administration is regularly deluged with orchestrated complaints, yet I’ve had nothing but total support from my university and colleagues.</div>
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But in all this nastiness, I take deep satisfaction and pride in having worked with colleagues who are lifetime friends to help make Australia’s smoking rates the lowest in the world.<a href="http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/march-2015-volume-25-issue-2/reflections-on-a-38-year-career-in-public-health-advocacy-10-pieces-of-advice-to-early-career-researchers-and-advocates/#refList6" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00a8a0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">6</span></a></div>
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Many of you are doing fabulous work to achieve similar goals in your areas. Clinicians are thanked every day by grateful patients and relatives for their skills in saving lives and limbs. In public health, we don’t have people saying to us “I’ve not been killed or injured because of your advocacy for road injury reduction policy” or “I’ve not got diabetes, and I put it down to you”. But our achievements can be seen in many areas of declining incidence of disease and injury. We do fantastically important work and I’ve been blessed to be part of it for 40 years. Thank you for all you do.</div>
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This article was originally presented as a plenary address to the 43rd Annual Conference of the Public Health Association of Australia, Perth, 17 September 2014.</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have completed your UG degree during the 2014-2015 academic year;</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Must not already hold a master’s degree or higher level of qualification;**</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have received, and are able to evidence for your final year of UG study:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• a Student Finance England/N. Ireland/Wales/ SAAS maintenance grant <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />OR<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• a special support grant awarded by Student Finance England/N. Ireland/Wales/ SAAS <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />OR</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• another form of means-tested financial support (e.g. a means-tested grant from a charitable foundation, university or other public sector body);</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Had a household income of less than £42,620 p.a. in your final year of UG study;</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Meet the terms of the offer for your chosen master’s degree programme at King’s College London;</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Must have completed an online application for any King's master's programme (except Dietetics and Physiotherapy pre-registration)*** starting in September 2015, by the application deadline (16.00 BST on Friday 29th May 2015)</span><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">;</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Must have submitted a complete scholarship application by the application deadline (tbc).</span></li>
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*<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">UK University refers to any Higher Education Institution in England supported by HEFCE or a University in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland which has charged the student higher fees for being from other UK regions. <a href="https://www.hefce.ac.uk/" style="color: #005054; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> https://www.hefce.ac.uk/ </span></a> <span class="s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></em></div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">** </em> <span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Students who already hold a master’s degree or higher are not eligible for this funding but students who have undertaken prior postgraduate study such as PG Diplomas or PG Certificates, are eligible. Students undertaking MRes programmes comprised of taught modules are eligible, whereas students undertaking MRes programmes for which a majority of the degree is based on independent research and is categorised as a research degree are not.</em></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">*** includes LLM, MA, MSc, MMUS, <em style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MClinDent, MPH <em style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and</em> MRes</em>. Does not include PG Cert, PG Dip or PGCE.</em></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="sys_trigger active" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="background: url(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/SiteElements/Images/expand-bg.gif) 100% 0% no-repeat rgb(211, 207, 198); clear: both; color: #005054; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 3px 0px 5px 3px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">Application process</a></em></span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Please check your eligibility carefully before applying.</strong></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Applications are now open and will close at</span> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">16:00 BST on Friday 29th May 2015.</strong></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In order to be considered for the award, you must:</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1)</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Have submitted a complete <a href="https://apply.kcl.ac.uk/" style="color: #005054; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">online admissions application</a> for a postgraduate master's programme at King’s College London before the application deadline.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Admissions applications must be ‘complete’ in order for an application to be considered for funding, and for an admissions application to be deemed ‘complete’ it must contain all the relevant supporting documentation, such as references, transcripts, and English language scores, where applicable. It is your responsibility to ensure that all supporting materials are submitted to King’s by the funding deadline.* </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AND</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2)</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Submit a specific <a class="sys_0 sys_t2452" href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/scholarships/KMSS-Form.aspx" style="color: #005054; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="King's Master's Support Scheme Form"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">online scholarship application</span></a> before the application deadline, together with the required supporting documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Failure to submit both application forms and the supporting documentation by the deadline will result in the application being considered ineligible.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">*If you have already applied for admissions, or hold a place but deferred entry to 2015/16, you will not be required to submit an admissions application again.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="sys_trigger active" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="background: url(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/SiteElements/Images/expand-bg.gif) 100% 0% no-repeat rgb(211, 207, 198); clear: both; color: #005054; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 3px 0px 5px 3px; text-decoration: underline; width: auto;">Supporting documentation</a></em></span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You will be required to submit supporting documentation which will demonstrate you meet the eligibility criteria as follows:</strong></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A)</strong> You will be asked to provide evidence to confirm that you were paying the higher tuition fee rate (£6,000 - £9,000 per year), either in the form of a funding letter, tuition fee invoice or similar documentation from your undergraduate university. </span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">B)</strong> If you received a Student Finance England/N. Ireland/Wales/ SAAS</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">maintenance grant</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, or a</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">special support grant</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">awarded by Student Finance England/N. Ireland/Wales/ SAAS then you will be required to submit the following:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">all</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">pages of your Student Finance England/N. Ireland/Wales/SAAS entitlement letter for your final undergraduate academic year (e.g. 2014/2015) showing any support awards. This document must contain your name for verification purposes. If you cannot find a copy of the document please access your on-line student finance account to download or print off another copy.</span></li>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">C)</strong> If you received another form of</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">means-tested financial support</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(e.g., such as a means-tested grant from a charitable foundation, university or other public sector body) then you will be required to submit the following:</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a copy of a P60 or a statement of earnings from HMRC for the 2014/15 tax year, along with the full documentation used for the funders financial assessment AND full details of the award provided.</span></li>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">D)</strong> If you have you spent time in</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Local Authority Care</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, Kinship Care or received support from the Foyer Federation, you will be required to provide Local Authority (or equivalent) confirmation of the exact dates spent in care or similar confirmation from the Foyer Federation.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E)</strong> If you have a recognised disability for which you received a</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Disabled Student Allowance (DSA)</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">from Student Finance England/N. Ireland/Wales/SAAS, you will be required to provide Student Finance England/N. Ireland/Wales/SAAS correspondence confirming DSA entitlement.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">F)</strong> If, during 2014 or 2015, you have been in receipt of a</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Carer’s Allowance</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">because you have caring responsibilities for an ill or disabled family member, you will be required to provide evidence that you are in receipt of a Carer’s Allowance or a notification letter from your Local Authority.</span></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">If you have any queries about this scheme, please refer to the FAQs page in the first instance.</strong></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Why not watch our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoGy57AZaW4&list=PLD79EA6656AD9632E&index=1" style="color: #005054; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">postgraduate funding webinar</a></span><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong> <span style="line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for an overview on what scholarships are available, what to do before you apply for a scholarship and for answers to some frequently asked questions?</span></span></div>
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