Symposium GAPSYM11 'Health in Africa - an interdisciplinary approach'
GAPSYM 11 : 'Health in Africa - an interdisciplinary approach'
9h00 – 9h10: Welcome by Prof. Patrick Van Damme, President of the Africa Platform
9h10 - 9h15: Information about the jubilee edition on 30 years of Afrika Focus, by Dr. Luce
Beeckmans (Advisory Board Africa Platform)
9h15 – 10h00: Keynote lecture by Prof. Paul Wenzel Geissler (University of Oslo): “Africanising science and medicine - the lasting promise”
10h00-10h30: Guest lecture by Prof. em. Jan De Maeseneer (Ghent University): “Primafamed-network: assessment of twenty years of South-South cooperation in primary care in Africa"
10h30-11h00: Coffee break
11h00-13h00: Session 1: Health care, space and materiality in Africa, past and present
[Chaired by Johan Lagae and Koen Stroeken]
- Anna Galle (Ghent University): “Policymaker, health provider and community perspectives on male involvement in maternal health in Southern Mozambique: a qualitative study at different levels”
- Olebo David Francis (Mountains of the Moon University): “Factors associated with “loss to follow up TB patients on TB treatment” at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, Kabarole District Western Uganda”
- Mariam Sharif (University of Khartoum): “Dynamics of contest over Resources in Health care provision in Sudan”
- Simon De Nys-Ketels (Ghent University): “Segregating circulation in urban landmarks of colonial health, a spatial lecture of three post-war hospitals in Belgian-Congo”
- Moriel Ram and Haim Yacobi (University College London): “Zionism in a white coat: Israel's medical interventions in Africa”
13h00-14h00: Lunch
14h00-15h00: Keynote lecture by Mrs. Achieng Renish (Organization Hope for Kabondo, Kenya): “Socio-cultural/ political context with regard to HIV, malnutrition and reproductive health in Kenya & the noble intentions of Western agencies - a personal reflection”
15h00-16h00: Session 2: Health system challenges for donor darlings: perspectives from the ground
[Chaired by Anna Galle and Lies Steurs]
- Joren Verschaeven, Jan Orbie & Sarah Delputte (Ghent University): “Health Coordination in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
- Lies Steurs (Ghent University): “European donors and health system strengthening: a distinct approach?”
- Elise De Smet (Ghent University): “Male involvement in Maternal Health”
16h00-16h30: Coffee break
16h30-17h30: Session 3: Childhood malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
[Chaired by Sarah De Saeger, Gerard Bryan Gonzales and Marthe de Boevre]
- Filip Van Bockstaele (Ghent University): “Combating micronutrient malnutrition in Africa with flour fortification: current status and challenges"
- Daniel Okitundu Luwa E-Andjafono (Université de Kinshasa): “Le konzo, une maladie neurologique-toxico-nutritionnelle avec des risques multiples et cumulatifs en santé neurodéveloppementale en Afrique sub-saharienne”
- Tefera Darge Delbiso (Université Catholique de Louvain) : “Are droughts bigger drivers of child undernutrition than conflicts in Ethiopia? A meta-analysis of 231 small-scale operational surveys, 2000 – 2013 »
17h30-19h00 : Reception and kick-off of the African Students Association@AUGent
20h00: Conference Dinner at Muday
