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Health & Indigenous Healing [clear filter]
Thursday, October 24
 

1:45pm EAT

The politics of knowledge production: the complexities of researching sensitive sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa.
Presenters:
  • Personal values, tensions and dilemmas in researching homosexuality and sex work in Kenya: Experiences of a native ethnographer (Emmy Kageha Igonya)
  • Dealing with abortion: ethical challenges and moral dilemmas in Burkina Faso (Ramatou Ouedraogo)
  • Challenges in Researching on Abortions in Africa (Kenneth Juma)
  • Boniface Ushie
  • Ethical issues and moral obligations: Conducting sexual and reproductive health research with very young adolescents (Beatrice Maina)
  • A call for a child-centric approach to child sexual violence research (Titi Neziswa)

Moderator
EK

Emmy Kageha Igonya

African Population and Health Research Center

Presenters
KJ

Kenneth Juma

African Population and Health Research Center
BM

Beatrice Maina

African Population and Health Research Center


Thursday October 24, 2019 1:45pm - 3:00pm EAT
USIU Business School B5 USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

3:15pm EAT

Public Health I
Presenters:
  • Death, Burial and Public Health in Colonial Ghana from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century (Amoako-Gympah and Akwasi Kwarteng)
  • Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in the SADC Region: People's Willingness to Pay to Fund Public Healthcare (Bwalya Jack Chola)
  • Emerging Trends in Psychology: Looking Back, Thinking Forward (Joyce Ngugi)
  • Rich People’s illness: Counting the economic burden of breast and cervical cancers in Ghana (Patience Gyamenah Okyere Asante)


Thursday October 24, 2019 3:15pm - 4:30pm EAT
USIU Business School B5 USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya

4:45pm EAT

African Health Systems, Medicine and Well-being
Presenters:
  • Endangered African Medicinal Plants: Rescuing Prosopis Africana (Momoh Rashidat, Ejura)
  • Tish – Smoke bath: Traditional Women’s knowledge on Application of Wild Plants for Therapeutic & Beautifying Purposes (Teclehaimanot Senait Bahta)
  • Peacebuilding through health work: Opportunities and challenges for women community health workers in Kenya (Roseanne Njiru)
  • Indigenous Knowledge System, Cultural Mythologies, Social Change And The Practice Of An African Healing System Among The Nupe Of Nigeria (Kolo, V.I.)
  • The Interplay Of Institutional Exigencies Between The Traditional Sociocultural Belief System On Illness And Conventional Medicine In The Gusii Medical Consultation: A Pragma-dialectical Examination Of Medical Dispute Resolution (Basweti Nobert Ombati)


Thursday October 24, 2019 4:45pm - 5:30pm EAT
USIU Business School B5 USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Friday, October 25
 

5:00pm EAT

Public Health II
Presenters:
  • Women, Pregnancy, Health, & Living on the Margins: The Case of Zimbabwe (Murambadoro Ruth Ratidzai)
  • Risk Predictors For Neonatal Mortality And Its Association With HIV Infection Among Postnatal Women Attending Pumwani Maternity Hospital (Pmh), Kenya (John Kyalo Muthuka)
  • Nurses' lived realities of workplace violence in public hospitals in Uganda. A farce or reality? (Mwase Patrick)
  • History in the Time of AIDS (Thomas Franklin McDow)

Moderator
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John Kyalo Muthuka

LECTURER-RESEACHER, KENYA MEDICAL TRAINING COLLEGE

Presenters
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Thomas McDow

Ohio State University
Historian of East Africa and the Indian Ocean world + global health and HIV


Friday October 25, 2019 5:00pm - 6:30pm EAT
USIU Business School B5 USIU Road, Nairobi, Kenya
 


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