Health and Globalisation

Speakers

We are happy to introduce our Speakers for the 2021 Summer School. We will be continuously updating this list, so make sure to check this page again soon!

Pier Paolo Balladelli

Dr. Pier Paolo Balladelli (Italy) is the WHO/PAHO Subregional Program Director – South America and a member of the Italian Medical Association - Bologna. He has spent his 38-year international career in political affairs, diplomacy, sustainable development, public and global health, health systems, medical anthropology, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance. His research fields include conflict prevention, indigenous systems and health diplomacy.

Accredited a member of the global UN Humanitarian Coordinator pool, he has participated at high level trainings on leadership (Turin Staff College), humanitarian international law and humanitarian mediation (Geneva 2007-2010). At the Imperial College of London, he was a member in 2008 of an American group for mathematical modeling on the HIV Pandemic.

Arpita Bisht

Arpita Bisht is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and an Associate Researcher at the Albert Hirschman Center for Democracy at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She received her PhD from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, India, and then pursued a Marie Sklodowska Curie LeADing Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the ISS, The Hague.

Her research focuses on ecological distribution conflicts and social resistance movements against extractivism and environmental injustices. She also explores degrowth, post-growth and other alternative economics in the context of the global South with a focus for India.

Paulette Cavalcanti de Albuquerque

Paulette Cavalcanti de Albuquerque holds a degree in Medicine from the Federal University of Pernambuco, as well as a master's degree and PhD in Public Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil, one of the world's main public health research institutions. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Pernambuco and a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Recife. She has experience in the area of Collective Health, with emphasis on Primary Health Care and is dedicated to teaching, research and extension in Family Health, Evaluation of Health Policies, Health Education and Popular Education. She is also an activist in social and union movements, with focus on health.

Angelika Claußen

Angelika Claußen is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with her own private practice. She is also co-chair of IPPNW Germany as well as President of the IPPNW Europe. Her political focus is international peace policy, climate and war, nuclear phase-out as well as human rights. Angelika is an expert for the health related risks of micro radiation and worked intensely to the health impairments of the nuclear catastrophes of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Besides this, Angelika also holds a master in Peace Sciences and advocates for „Peace through Health“ as a way of constructive pacifism. Angelika also brings a long experience in the treatment of traumatized refugees, survivors of torture and people with intensive early-childhood traumata.

Malvika Godara

Malvika Godara is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Social Neuroscience Lab, Max Planck Society. She received her PhD from Ghent University Belgium, and has conducted research at Yale University and Complutense University Madrid. Her work focuses on exploring the psychosocial, cognitive, biological and psychophysiological risk and resilience mechanisms underlying mental health and well-being. Her research is also focused on developing mechanism-driven therapeutic interventions as well as mobile digital interventions for mental well-being.

Silvia Habekost

Silvia Habekost is a trained nurse, working in hospital since 1988 and also holds a Master degree in Public Health. Also, she is union activist (ver.di), part of Berliner Krankenhausbewegung, Berliner Bündnis Gesundheit statt Profite, Bündnis Krankenhaus statt Fabrik. There, Silvia is fighting for change in health care financing – especially in hospitals. She stands up for healthcare for people not for profit, and fights for mandatory staffing levels in hospitals.

As part of the Berliner Krankenhausbewegung (Berlin hospital movement) initiated by ver.di, they already achieved collective agreements for mandatory staffing levels for the city hospital Vivantes and the university hospital Charité in Berlin 2021 as well as collective agreements for higher wages for outsourced hospital workers. This success wasearned after one of the longest (30-40 days) and most powerful hospital strikes in Germany.

Anuj Kapilashrami

Prof. Kapilashrami is an Interdisciplinary social scientist trained in Sociology and Public health and Professor in Global health Policy and Equity in the School of Health & Social Care at University of Essex.

Her work lies at the intersections of health politics and development praxis, with particular interest in understanding their interface with equity, human rights, and social justice. She has longstanding research interest and experience that spreads over twenty years in both academia and civil society/ development sector in South Asia and the UK. Her current work focuses on advancing an intersectional approach, conceptually and empirically, to examine health inequalities and structural determinants of health and well-being. She has published widely in these areas of health policies and inequalities (100+ publications) and led Knowledge exchange and capacity building initiatives in South Asia, Central Asia, the UK and Europe. She is advisor to the UK-REACH study into Ethnicity And COVID-19 outcomes in healthcare workers and leads the ICOPE consortium set up to examine health workers’ experiences of covid-management from an intersectional lens. She has also undertaken human rights assessment of the pandemic for the WHO and IPPPR, and developed technical guidance for engaging communities in priority setting processes.

She a is longstanding member of the People’s Health Movement, and convened its Scotland chapter (until 2019), Trustee on the board of Health Poverty Action and Founding Chair of the MigrationHealth South Asia network. Kapilashrami is on the Gender Advisory Panel for WHO’s Human Reproduction Programme, and the Editorial advisory board for the BMJ, PLOS Global Public Health and Lancet GRaCE.

Lauren Paremoer

Lauren Paremoer is a senior lecturer in Political Studies, University of Cape Town and a member of the People’s Health Movement. Her scholarly and political work focuses on democratising global health governance, and understanding how social movements can contribute to realising the right to health for all.

Victoria Saint

Victoria Saint is a global and public health practitioner specialising in health equity and the social determinants of health. Since March 2019, she has been working as a research associate in the Department of Population Medicine and Health Services Research in the School of Public Health at Bielefeld University, where she is also doing her PhD on equity and gender dimensions of antimicrobial resistance.

Victoria was a Technical Officer for the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Unit, in the Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva from 2013 to 2015. From 2015-2019, Victoria worked as an independent consultant for the WHO and other UN and academic organisations, as well as working part time at the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Global Institute – Berlin as the Instructor Leader and Academic Advisor of the Global and Community Health Track. Prior to this, Victoria was the Research Development Manager for the Southgate Institute of Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University in Australia. Victoria has a Double Bachelor in Health Sciences and Social Sciences from University of Adelaide and a Masters of International Health from Uppsala University.

Mihir Sharma

Mihir Sharma (he/him) teaches political anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. He writes about social movements, race, racism, antiracism, and environmental activism. He is a member of Black Earth Collective, and has worked with antiracist, environmental, climate, and decolonial activists in New York, Freiburg, London, St. Louis, and most recently in Berlin.

Mathilde Tomasella

Mathilde Tomasella is a social arts facilitator and educator. She works with the Theater of the Oppressed Community “Kuringa”, with her mentor Bárbara Santos since 2017 and as a member of the feminist theater group “Madalenas Berlin". With this community Mathilde has organized for some years the International Theater of the Oppressed Festivals “Aesthetics of Solidarity”, gathering performing groups from more than 10 countries. She has been working with various companies around the world, such as Jana Sanskriti (India), as well as with practicioners and activists from UK, Italy, Hong Kong, Argentina and Brazil.

As an anthropologist and theater activist, Mathilde loves to combine the sensitization on social justice issues with the possibilities of body expression and creativity. She's also a perfomative artist and collaborates with the school arthaus.berlin in the programme “Integrated Movement and Performance Practice”.

Elif Turan

Elif Turan, born in 1990 in Diyarbakir, is a physician and human rights acitivst. Elif studied Medicine at the Dicle University, where she graduated in 2015. While working in Silvan State Hospital Elif was dismissed from her job with a statutory decree in 2016. Now, Elif works at the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, an institution that treats victims of torture. She also works for the Diyarbakir Medical Chamber in management and for the human rights commission of which she has been the head of since 2020. Elif is fighting for human rights.

Winne van Woerden

Winne van Woerden works at Commons Network, an Amsterdam-based think-thank for the social and ecological transition. She holds an MSc in Global Health from the University of Maastricht and is currently pursuing a second masters in Degrowth: Policy, Economy and Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her most recent research focused on amongst others caring communing practices, feminist economics and the care economy with her latest book being called "Living well on a Finite Planet - Building a Caring World Beyond Growth".

Andreas Wulf

Andreas is a trained a medical doctor. After working in the Treatment Centre for Torture Victims in Berlin and in Trauma Surgery, he joined medico international as Medical Project Coordinator and Health Policy Advisor. At medico, Andreas’ focus is in global health where he works in the field of patents, patients and profits. He is a Steering Committee Member of the People’s Health Movement and Board Member of the Geneva Global Health Hub. Andreas also acted as a delegate at the World Health Assembly several times. Currently, he examines global health governance in World Health Organization policies, including conflicts of interest and the influence of ‘philantrocapitalism’ on global health in the form of large private foundations, such as the Gates Foundation.

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