Collaborations and Affiliations
Programme Affiliates:
Dr Amanda Begley, Director of Innovation and Improvement at UCLP
Dr Simon Dein, Senior Clinical Lecturer, UCL
Dr Angela Hobart, Hon. Research
Fellow, UCL
Dr Sushrut Jadhav, Senior Lecturer in Cross-cultural Psychiatry, UCL
Professor Bruce Kapferer, Professor Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
Professor Murry Last, Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCL
Professor Graham Scambler, Professor of Medical Sociology,
Department of Medicine, UCL
Professor Sonu Shamdasani, UCL
Centre for History of Medicine, Division of Biosciences and Faculty of Life
Sciences
Current Collaborations
Bioethics Department, Hospital de Clinicas Porto Alegre, Brazil
An ongoing collaboration between the Medical Anthropology Department and the Bioethics Department at Hospital de Clinics exploring the bioethical challenges of genomic medicine in developing country contexts. A 3 day workshop is being organized in June 2012 in Porto Alegre involving researchers from UK, Uruguay, Chile and Canada that will explore these issues in further detail. Contact Sahra Gibbon (s.gibbon@ucl .ac.uk) for further information
BRCAnetwork
A cross disciplinary research network involving staff and postgraduate students from UCL and other institutions in Europe, US, Canada, Israel, Latin America commited to understanding the social and cultural contet of development associated with the discovery and application of the knowledge and technology linked to genetics and breast cancer. Past meetings of the group have taken place in Berlin, London and Geneva. www.brcanetwork.wordpress.com
‘Cancer Cultures’
A collaboration that is examining the social and cultural context of the cancer experience at the level of the individual, family and community and social/cultural engagement with the illness and disease of cancer in comparative national contexts . A one day interdisciplinary symposium is planned in November 2012 to bring together social, historical and behavioural scientists to further interdisciplinary discussion in this field. Contact Sahra Gibbon (s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk) or Alex Pillen (a.argenti-pillen@ucl.ac.uk) for further information
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