Event location
Guest Speaker Seminars will take place at Seminar Room 218, FHH (Frederik Holsts hus), 12:15-13:30.
Zoom link for those wishing to attend online.
Abstract
This presentation discusses some convergent themes and methodological questions across two ongoing research projects. The first project studies the layered generational ideologies which remain present in contemporary South African healthcare, under the long-running government of of the African National Congress party, shaped by its roots in the Soviet Union and Socialist world. The second project examines the accumulated ecological and social legacies of large-scale disease control programmes in West Africa. From these cases, the talk discusses convergent thematic and methodological questions regarding how particular aspects of the past remain present in public health work, national health planning, and natural environments, on the African continent and beyond.
Bio:
Dr David Bannister is a historian of contemporary public health at the Institute for Health and Society, part of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. His research interests include state healthcare and the public good in contemporary Africa; histories of internationalism and political/technical exchange in health; disease control and the contemporary environment; and the social history of health services and insurance in Ghana and South Africa. He currently works on the Wellcome Trust project ‘Connecting Three Worlds’ and the Norwegian Research Council Project ‘EpiTraces’, and contributes to the EU/ERC Project ‘Universal Health Coverage and the Public Good in Africa’.