Health promotion at the animal-human interface: Anthropological insights from a new research

Health and Society Seminar Series

Health promotion at the animal-human interface: Anthropological insights from a new research

University of Calgary

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

12:00 - 1:00 P.M.

Room G384

Health Sciences Centre,

3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary

This presentation will provide an overview of a new research program in population health intervention research, one that focuses attention on complexity in connections between animal and human health. The presentation will focus on conceptual innovations and highlight their pertinence for achieving gains in human health. The overall aim is to defend the importance of social theory in designing and assessing programs and policies that have the potential to influence the health of entire populations.

Melanie Rock is a faculty member in the Population Health Intervention Research Centre at the University of Calgary. Also at the University of Calgary, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences (Faculty of Medicine), an assistant professor in the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine), and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology (Faculty of Social Sciences). Additional affiliations include the University of Toronto's Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research and the Université de Montréal's Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire en santé. She currently holds editorial positions with Health: An interdisciplinary journal of the social study of health, illness, and medicine and Medical Anthropology: Cross-cultural studies in health and illness.

This Seminar Series is hosted by the Population Health Intervention Research Centre (www.ucalgary.ca/PHIRC). We'd like it to reflect a range of perspectives and interests. We welcome participation. Please contact Lindsay Bradshaw, at ph (403) 210 9316; or by email bradshaw@ucalgary.ca if you have any ideas or suggestions.

The Population Health Intervention Research Centre is a CIHR Centre for Research Development in Population Health

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