{"id":496,"date":"2021-04-02T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=496"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T11:08:35","slug":"infectious-disease-and-public-health-lessons-from-history-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernhealthscaping.hcommons-staging.org\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Infectious Disease and Public Health: Lessons from History – Webinar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, 22 April, \u00a017:00\u00a0AEST<\/strong>
\nOnline<\/h3>\n

In 2020 Covid-19 reminded us all that we can learn valuable lessons from the history of infectious disease. This webinar brings together three historians of public health in very different eras and contexts, presenting historical research which can help us better understand and manage infectious disease in the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

Guy Geltner<\/strong> (Monash University), \u2018Public health in the premodern world: The end of an oxymoron\u2019: The new field of premodern public health has rose to some prominence during the outbreak of Covid-19, as health professionals, policy makers and ordinary citizens became aware of the efficacy of \u2018low tech\u2019 solutions often associated with earlier, \u2018unhygienic\u2019 eras. This presentation will summarize some of the field\u2019s key insights and how they challenge entrenched narratives of modernization and common practices of cultural othering today.<\/p>\n

Warwick Anderson<\/strong> (University of Sydney) considers \u2018Crisis in the Herd: A Short History of R0 and Disease Modelling\u2019: Statistical models and simulations have recently come to dominate the framing of epidemic disease, giving us concepts of \u2018waves\u2019 and \u2018flattening the curve\u2019 \u2013 but where do they come from, and where are they directing us?<\/p>\n

Geraldine Fela<\/strong> (Monash University), \u2018From Condoman to Community Control: Indigenous public health, nursing and HIV in the 1980s\u2019: As HIV spread through Australia\u2019s gay community in the early 1980s many predicted that the virus would cause a public health crisis of unprecedented proportions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, but this never eventuated. This paper will examine the\u00a0extraordinary public health approach that was responsible for this success, an approach led by Indigenous nurses and healthcare workers and\u00a0informed by\u00a0the politics of self-determination and community control.<\/p>\n

Presenter Bios\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warwick Anderson<\/strong>, MD, PhD, is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney; and a honorary professor in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Geraldine Fela<\/strong> is in the final year of her PhD candidature at Monash University. Her thesis examines the experiences of HIV and AIDS nurses in Australia prior to the introduction of anti-retroviral therapy. Her research looks at the intersection of oral history, labour history, histories of gender and sexuality and social movement studies.<\/p>\n

Guy Geltner<\/strong> is a social historian of health, cities and punishment at Monash University and the University of Amsterdam. His work can be explored at\u00a0www.guygeltner.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Al Thomson<\/strong>, Professor of History at Monash University, will host the evening and HCV Executive Officer Alicia Cerreto<\/strong>\u00a0and Monash University’s Dr Susie Protschky<\/strong> will facilitate the discussion.<\/p>\n

You can register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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