Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body

Projects

Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body - AISSR

CERCA: Community-embedded reproductive health care for adolescents

The FP7 funded CERCA project aims to contribute to global knowledge about how health systems can be more responsive to the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and, by extension, to other health needs of Latin American populations.

COHEMI: Coordinating resources to assess and improve health status of migrants from Latin America

The FP7 funded COHEMI project aims to provide a clear understanding of the full migration cycle in relation with the health systems in Europe and Latin America and to provide in-depth insight into priority health-related aspects of LA migration.

CoHeRe (Developing Sustainable Community Health Resources in Poor Settings in Uganda )

This NWO funded Programme aims to contribute to the development of sustainable interventions that will mitigate the effects of the human resource deficit in healthcare and contribute to the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It will do so by identifying and utilising existing community resources in poor communities in Uganda to spread health information, encourage health promoting behaviours and bring vulnerable community members into better contact with existing health services.

Coming of age in Burundi: youth's social navigation in fragile contexts

Though Burundi's recent transition towards a democracy at peace is internationally considered successful, recurrent outbreaks of violence show continued fragility of peace. This NWO funded research project investigates how the fractured social fabric fosters fragility, and how young Burundians navigate and contribute to restructuring the social fabric along old and new lines of division.

Cyberpoli’s, een interactieve ontmoetingsplaats voor kinderen met een chronische aandoening en hun medische behandelaars

In dit ZonMw onderzoek wordt het functioneren van de cyberpoli voor kinderen met diabetes geëvalueerd door kinderen, ouders en behandelaars.

Dutch-ness in genes and genealogy: following genetic diversity around science and society

In this project, financed by the Center for Society & Genomics, researchers investigate the possible consequences DNA research may have on concepts of identity and experience.

Eating bodies. The eating body in Western practice and theory

Human bodies eat. But what does this entail? This ERC funded project will explore how the eating body is shaped in different Western practices. These will include nutritional research and health care clinics, sites that have a far-reaching impact on how we eat.

Filling the Gap: Social institutions and AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.

This WOTRO-NWO funded research programme analyses social institutions that have been particularly shaped by HIV/AIDS and how these are being transformed in radical and significant ways to meet the care and support needs of communities overburdened by HIV.

Ir/relevance of Race in Science and Society

This project concerns a seminar series and network where we discuss the relevance and irrelevance of race as an object and concept of research in order to explore ways to talk about race without naturalizing differences. Scholars from different (inter)disciplinary fields - such as genetics, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, history, political sciences, science and technology studies - are invited to address the issue of race through a paper presentation.

IS Academie HIV/AIDS (Internationale Samenwerking)

Middels de IS academie, de Academie voor Internationale Samenwerking opgericht door het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, beoogt de AISSR bij te dragen aan een maatschappelijke en wetenschappelijke relevante agenda van HIV-AIDS onderzoek.

Learning by doing: enhancing treatment literacy and addressing sexual and reproductive health of PLWA in Eastern Africa

This consortium intends to find ways of addressing two related areas of care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS in East Africa: 1) the effectiveness of ART treatment literacy (TL) programmes and 2) the sexual and reproductive health needs (SRH) of young people living with HIV/AIDS.

Leishmaniasis in Suriname

This NWO funded research programme consists of three projects that in an integrated manner addresses all major aspects of Leishmaniasis in Suriname.

MATCH: The Multi-Country African Study on Testing and Counselling for HIV

This multi-site study has three objectives: 1) to analyze the determinants of HIV test uptake in Malawi, Uganda, Kenya and Burkina Faso, 2) to describe consent, confidentiality and counseling procedures from the perspective of health workers and their clients in a variety of health care settings and 3) to describe access to follow-up care and social support as well as issues related to stigma and discrimination. The study is conducted in cooperation with WHO and financed by the National Institute of Health, USA.

Memorials and remains of medical research in Africa: An anthropology of scientific landscapes, ruins and artefacts

This NWO funded project explores the ways in which biomedical research generates memory and how its past practices are remembered, memorialized, commemorated, erased and lived with in African institutions, populations and landscapes.

MUTHI: Multi-disciplinary university traditional health initiative: building sustainable research capacity on plants for better public health in Africa

The overall objective of this EC funded project is to create sustainable research capacity and research networks in Africa (Mali, South Africa and Uganda). MUTHI will identify needs and develop and implement research training programmes.

Reaching the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

Health insurance is increasingly seen as an important alternative financing mechanism for health care in developing countries.This NWO funded program designs and evaluates interventions to stimulate MHO enrolment, with special focus on the poor.

Reassessing reproductive health and responses to HIV risk, disease and treatment among men in rural northern Malawi

This NWO funded project seeks to gain insights into the under-studied area of masculinity, male fertility and HIV using the case of rural northern Malawi.

Archive

Seminar Series: Ir/relevance of Race in Science and Society

The relevance and irrelevance of race as an object and concept of research in order to explore ways to talk about race without naturalizing differences.