IPHU Faculty and Associates
The following folk have either taught at one or more IPHU courses or helped to organise courses.
(Please advise coordinator if you have been inadvertently left off this list or inappropriately listed or improperly described. Please provide link to a more definitive homepage (if you have one) and contact details (if you are happy to have your contact details listed).)
Leticia Artiles, Cuba. Senior Professor at Higher Institute of Medical Sciences in Cuba. Joint General Coordinator of the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES) and member of the Board of the International Association of Health Policy (IAHP). Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca July 2005.
Francoise Barten, Nijmegen University, Holland; also honorary staff member of the UNAN university in Leon, Nicaragua, the School of Public Health (CIES) of Nicaragua and the UMSS in Cochabamba, Bolivia). Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca.
Fran Baum, Australia, Researcher and teacher at FlindersUniversity, Adelaide, Australia. Her main interests are in understanding what makes progressive primary health care and health promotion work, including processes of participation and in understanding the global, national and local causes of health inequities and how they can be reduced. She is an active member of the International People’s Health Council and the People’s Health Movement and a member of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca in 2005 and the Vancouver Workshop in June 2007.
Alexis Benos, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. Public health. PHM. Cuenca 2005.
Zafrullah Chowdry, Bangladesh, founder and director of Gonoshasthaya Kendra People's Health Centre. Director of IPHU Course scheduled to be held in Savar, Bangladesh in November 2007.
Jeff Connant, Jeff Conant, USA, is a writer and educator involved with PHM particularly around the Right to Water, serving as a liason between PHM and other networks, such as Friends of the Right to Water and the Red Vida. Lead author and coordinator of Hesperian Foundation's forthcoming (2008) book, A Community Guide to Environmental Health, his interests span all areas of environmental health and human rights. As a journalist, he regularly publishes articles in independent media outlets. He contributed to the IPHU at the US Social Forum, Atlanta, 2007.
Delen de la Paz, Philippines. Convenor of Global Health Program, University of the Philippines School of Family and Community Medicine. Leading member of IPHC and PHM. Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca in July 2005 and to the IPHU Leadership Workshop in Bhopal in April 2007.
Ravi Duggal, India, independent researcher and health activist. He has academic degrees in sociology and management and 28 years of experience in research, training and advocacy on health issues including health systems and policies, health economics and financing, reproductive health, health databases and information management, budget analysis and advocacy, governance and other development issues. He has worked in the past with institutions such as Foundation for Research in Community Health, Ministry of Health - Govt of India, SWISSAID, Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, and been a visiting Faculty at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Sciences and Studies and University of Mumbai. Presently he supports Action Aid International on a consulting basis in developing capacity of its Partner Organisations across nine South and South East Asian countries. He is also been active in the Peoples Health Movement in India and in other global initiatives like GEGA and IFHHRO. Participating in Jaipur IPHU March 2008.
Eduardo Espinoza, El Salvador, medical doctor, Master in Public Health, Professor at the University of El Salvador in Health Systems and Health Policy; researcher in health sector reform; during the civil war in El Salvador (1975 to 1992) he was in charge of medical services in conflictive areas, and in capacitation of health activists of the insurgent forces and from the civil people in this areas without medical services from the government. He was imprisoned and tortured on two ocassions in 1978 (two months) and 1985 (eight months). Following the peace accords in 1992 he returned to the University of El Salvador to research and teach public health. Between 1995 and 1999 he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of El Salvador (UES). Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca in July 2005.
Amit Sen Gupta . Amit Sen Gupta has trained in medicine and works on issues related to public health, pharmaceuticals policy, and other S&T policy issues like Intellectual Property Rights. Has been associated with the Delhi Science Forum – a public interest organisation working on S&T Policy issues -- for the past 20 years. Has lectured and written extensively on these issues, including in journals, newspaper and magazines. Has edited a book on the Drug Industry in India titled “Drug Industry and the Indian Peopleâ€. Was involved in a landmark Public Interest Litigation on the issue of banning of hazardous and irrational drugs in the Supreme Court of India. Has also been involved in implementation of a number of programmes on rural industrialisation through the Centre for Technology and Development – projects that are supported by the Deptt. of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Rural Development in India. Amit is associated with many other networks and organisations. Participated in Jaipur IPHU course, March 2008.
Maria Hamlin-Zuniga, Nicaragua, Long time community health activist in Central America including developing and supporting community based health programs. Also founding convenor of the International People's Health Council. Participated in IPHU at Cuenca 2005 and Bhopal and Vancouver in 2007.
Parvez Imam. Film maker. Jaipur, March 2008.
Tej Ram Jat, India. He has formal training in health policy, planning and financing with special emphasis on health systems research, community participation and health economics. He has been involved in planning and implementation of large-scale projects involving people’s participation in India for last 10 years on a breadth of issues including community health, gender, comprehensive primary healthcare, equity in health, health financing and community monitoring of health services. He has been associated with Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (Peoples Health Movement), Medico Friends Circle, People’s Union for Civil Liberties and World Social Forum. His areas of interest are equity in health, social determinants of health, intersectoral convergence, health financing, budget analysis, community based planning & monitoring of health services and evidence based policy advocacy. He has been a participant and local liaison person for IPHU workshop, Bhopal, March 2007, participant in IPHU, Savar, November 2007 and contributing in IPHU, Jaipur, March 2008.
Prem John and Hari John, India. Trained together at ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore and for 16 years practised unorthodox solutions to the problems of the poor in Deenabandu (not merely health) and trained a large number of grassroots, mid-level and higher health workers. Gave up the practice of western medicine fifteen years back and now only practise alternatives - herbal remedies, alternative practices such as massages, acupressure, cutaneous acupuncture, energy therapy, homoeopathy and such. Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca in July 2005. Prem John actively involved in preparations for Savar November 2007.
Luis Justo, paediatrician, epidemiologist, ethicist, philosopher. Argentina. Cuenca 2005
Maija Kagis, public health consultant. Long experience and continuing interest in international health. Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca in 2005 and to the Vancouver Workshop in June 2007.
Ronald Labonte is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity at the Institute of Population Health and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Prior to his appointment in 2004 at the University of Ottawa, he was founding Director of the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU), a bi-university interdisciplinary research organization committed to “engaged research†on population health determinants at local, national and global levels. Before working on globalization and health, Ron worked, consulted and published extensively on health promotion, empowerment and health and community development. Contributed to IPHU Workshop in Vancouver, June, 2007. (070823)
David Legge, Australia, teaches health policy and public health at La Trobe University in Australia. He has a strong interest in the political economy of health and the comparative study of health systems with a particular interest in health care in China. He is a member of the IPHC and the PHM and is active in the People's Health Movement in Australia. He is current academic coordinator of IPHU. Participated in Cuenca, Bhopal, Vancouver, Atlanta. (070823)
Maureen McCue,. USA. Convenor Global Health Stream, University of Iowa. Contributed to Atlanta 2007.
Theo MacDonald. Active in health promotion and international equity in health. Theoretically "retired" (former prof and director of PG Studies in Health at Brunel Uni, London), but active in publishing and research. Member of the Institute of Human Rights and Social Justice at London Metropolitan University. Author of Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth (foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu). Cuenca 2005.
Julio Monsalvo, Argentina. Meaning, spirit and health. Cuenca 2005.
Thelma Narayan, Community Health Cell, India. Public Health Consultant of Society for Community Health, Awareness, Research and Action,Bangalore, Karnataka, India- A policy research and training centre that works with people movements, civil societies, state and national governments, and international health agencies in promoting the social/community/rights paradigm of health and health care. Active member and joint convenor of PHM India till recently( Jan Swasthya Abhiyan) and Global People Health Movement. Epidemiologist and public health policy analyst who works with various national health initiatives including National Rural Health Mission, National Health System Resource Centre, and has evolved public health and primary health care oriented state health policies in Karnataka and Orissa state. Has been the member of the Measurement and Evidence Knowledge network of the WHO commission on Social Determinants of Health. Was resource person/faculty at IPHU session in Bhopal India 2007. ( see www.sochara.org; www.phm-india.org; and www.narayanblog.blogspot.com ) Bhopal Course in March 2007.
Ravi Narayan, India. Community Health Advisor of the Society for Community Health Awareness, Research and Action, Bangalore, Karnataka State, India ( www.sochara.org) a policy research and A policy research and training centre that works with people movements, civil societies, state and national governments, and international health agencies in promoting the social/community/rights paradigm of health and health care. Active member and joint convenor of PHM India till December 2002 and later coordinator of the Global Secretariat of PHM from Jan 2003 - July 2006. Advisor to National Rural Health Mission and council member of Global Forum for Health Research, Public Health Foundation of India; Planning Commission of India and on the task force on Primary Health Care and Alternative system of medicines and public health. Member of WHO Advocacy circle of PHM and also currently member of Global PHM steering council and coordinating council. Was resource person/faculty at IPHU session in Cuenca, PHA2 in July 2002 (see www.sochara.org; www.phm-india.org; and www.narayanblog.blogspot.com). Contributor to the Cuence IPHU Course in July 2005.
Romeo Quijano, Philippines, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of the Philippines. Manila; member and office bearer in various academic, social and community based organisations in the Philippines and consultant to government and a resource person to various community-based organizations in the Philippines. Contributed to IPHU Course in Cuenca 2005.
Arturo Quizhpe Peralta, Ecuador, Professor of Pediatrics, Former Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Cuenca. Coordinator of the Second People´s Health Assembly, July 2005. Professor Quizhpe Peralta has written and published 45 books on children´s health problems (diarrhea, malnutrition, breastfeeding, growth and development, playing and learning), health as a human right, child development, health policy, primary health care (health, love and liberty), and collections of health stories. Contributed to Cuenca Course, July 2005. (070828)
David Sanders, South Africa, is Director and Professor of the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has been actively involved in the health policy process in both Zimbabwe and South Africa, particularly in the areas of nutrition and human resource development. He is author of two books on the politics of health and primary health care and co-author of a recent book on the G8 and health aid. He has researched and written in the areas of political economy of health, primary health care, child nutrition and health personnel education. He is a founder member of the International Peoples Health Council and a member of the Global Steering Group of the Peoples Health Movement and convenor of its research circle. Contributed to Cuenca Course and the Leadership Workshop in Bhopal April 2007
Miguel San Sebastian. Researches and teaches epidemiology and public health at the Umeå International School of Public Health, Umeå, Sweden. He has been the medical coordinator of a primary health care programme with indigenous communities in the Amazon basin of Ecuador during ten years. His research interests include environmental health, primary health care, indigenous health and implications of trade agreements on health. Contributed to Cuenca Course in July 2005 and to the Savar Course in November 2007.
Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam, Freelance consultant in public health based in Vietnam. He has an academic position at TulaneUniversity in the US. His main interests are in the interface between politics, globalization, equity and human rights and health. Contributed to Cuenca 2005, Bhopal 2007 and Savar 2007.
Hani Serag, Policy analyst with the Association for Health Environment and Development in Egypt. Current coordinator of global secretariat of PHM. Participated in IPHU in Cuenca in July 2005 and contributed to IPHU Leadership Workshop in Bhopal in April 2007
Sarah Shannon,. CEO Hesperian Foundation. Contributed to IPHU Course held in association with the US Social Forum in Atlanta in June 2007.
Mira Shiva. India. Involved in: Peoples Health Movement, International People's Health Council, Health Action International - Asia Pacific, All India Drug Action Network, Diverse Women for Diversity, Central Council for Health, National Human Rights Commission, Task Force on Consumer Education and Safety of Food and Medicine, National Population Commission, National Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Central Ethical Committee on Health Research. Participated in IPHU, Savar, Nov 2007
Debora Tajer, Professor and Research Director on Gender and Health, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires; Professor of the Seminar on Health Public Policies and Gender at the Virtual Master´s Program on Gender, Society and Policies, Latin American Postgraduate Institute of Social Sciences (FLACSO/PRIGEPP); past president of the Latin American Association of Social Medicine-ALAMES, past coordinator and founder of the Gender and Collective Health Network of the Latin American Association of Social Medicine-ALAMES; adviser of the Women National Council of Argentina (1999); co-compiler of ‘Psychoanalysis and Gender. Debates in the Forum’, Lugar Editorial, Buenos Aires, 2000; and ‘Health, Equity and Gender: a Challenge for Public Policies’, Editora Universidad de Brasilia, 2000. Her work is focussed in linking women and health activism with academical and research activities. Contributed to Cuenca 2005.
Laura Turiano,. Rights activist. Atlanta, June 2007 and GK, November 2007.
A.F.M. Imam Uddin, has been working with the PHM in Bangladesh since the evolution of the PHA1 process in 2000 and is now national coordinator of PHM Bangladesh. He joined liberation struggle of Bangladesh in 1971 while student of the University of Dhaka. Though he completed his studies in geology he has practised largely in the field of development. He has several publications, including articles on social and ecomonic issues and is involved in a range of different social movements, in trade unions, KAF, WSM, linked to World Conferedation of Labour (WCL) and other social platforms for social change. Resource person during GK IPHU, November 2007.
Garance Upham. Economist, France. General Secretary, Safe Observer International; Co-chair, Disability and Economics Circle, PHM; Patients for Patient Safety, World Alliance for Patient Safety (the World Health Organization); Contributed to Cuenca 2005.
Lily Walkover, Trade and Health. Atlanta, 2007.
Tanya Wansom, Thailand struggles for sovereignty over medications.. Atlanta 2007
Expressions of Interest Invited
IPHU is always keen to hear from teachers within the people's health movement who might be interested in contributing to our teaching program. Expresssions of interest should be directed to the IPHU Coordinator (dlegge@phmovement.org) and should include some details regarding your areas of expertise and teaching experience and an indication of the kind of contribution you envisage making to the work of IPHU.
