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DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH & SOCIAL MEDICINE 2019 Summer Summer Graduation is a wonderful event and a great way to celebrate our Contents student’s achievement with family and friends. I look forward to seeing NEWS 2 many of you there in July in the Royal Festival Hall! FEATURES 5 his year, we’ve once again had a On the research front, I am delighted to OUTREACH 8 very active programme of student let you know about GHSM’s recent grant FIELD REPORT 9 Tengagement. Dr James Fletcher successes. Dr Carlo Caduff was awarded continues to lead on careers – and I hope a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award to PUBLICATIONS 11 you’ve enjoyed and benefited from the investigate cancer care in India. Professor STAFF PROFILES 12 activities and events organised by GHSM, Anne Pollock was awarded an American including our Careers Talk with Dr Tim Council of Learned Society Fellowship for Reed from Health Action International. her work on race and biopolitics in the 21st Be sure to engage with King’s Careers & century, and a Wellcome Trust Small Grant Employability, which is open to all students. award to examine race and biomedicine Graduating students can activate their beyond the lab. Professor Mauricio graduate access to King’s CareerConnect Avendano, together with colleagues at in order to continue using the services. I the LSE and the Institute of Psychiatry, also encourage graduates to join the King’s Psychology & Neuroscience, was awarded Alumni Community (see alumni.kcl.ac.uk). an ESRC grant to look at poverty reduction We also have several mobility and mental health amongst young people opportunities for our current students: the from low- and middle-income countries. Tata Social Internship in India, an internship Together with him, I have also been at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre in South awarded an ESRC project to examine how Africa, and our internship programme in varying care systems are associated with The CMP Brazil. Last year, Robert Smith and Mohini inequalities in care and well-being in later Samani were the first King’s students to life. Meanwhile, as this is part of an Open Writing Retreat participate in the Tata Social Internship Area Research call, we will be working in India. Meanwhile, our student, Rachel with colleagues at Vrjie Vrije Universiteit For the fourth year now, the CMP research Morse was awarded an internship at the Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Technical group has enjoyed the coastal village of Desmond Tutu TB Centre in Cape Town, University of Dortmund in Germany and Walberswick as the place to run the annual and reports on her experience in this issue. Keio University in Japan. writing retreat. The village offers a nice Plus, we place four students to attend Finally, I want to thank our students for surprise every year to those of us who join the University of Stellenbosch’s summer completing the NSS, PTES and PRES for the retreat for the first time. The retreat school every year. As per the agreement surveys, which provide us with valuable offered time for our own writing and various with King’s, the summer school is free feedback. creative writing exercises, pushing us out (although students will need to cover their of our writing routines and allowing us to accommodation and flights). flex our writing muscles in different and For those thinking of continuing onto novel ways. A side-effect of the exercises postgraduate study with the Department of was the sharing and reflection over writing Global Health & Social Medicine (GHSM), tips and challenges between all of us. The we have our three-week undergraduate time spent together allowed us to get better module on Global Health & Social Justice. acquainted during break times, meals and This three-week module is part of King’s walks by the sea. The retreat will hopefully Undergraduate Summer School and is a continue yearly, as an opportunity for new great taster for further study (see kcl.ac.uk/ Karen Glaser and returning participants to engage again in study/undergraduate/courses/undergraduate- Professor of Gerontology the rich conversations, and the exercises that summer-school). and GHSM Department Head the retreat offers. NEWS CARE SYSTEMS AND Emerging INEQUALITIES IN CARE AND biotechnologies WELLBEING IN LATER LIFE for global health? Currently, together with Professor Mauricio Avendano, Professor A BIOS workshop Karen Glaser is leading an ESRC funded project investigating how varying care systems are associated with inequalities in care and On 20-21 February, the Biotechnology & Society (BIOS) research group held wellbeing in later life. a tw0-day workshop at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, addressing the he first project meeting was held wellbeing of older care recipients and question ‘Emerging biotechnologies for early in April this year. This is part their caregivers. A better understanding of global health?’ The workshop brought Tof a larger Open Research Area the consequences of different care policies together members of BIOS and close (ORA) funded project led by the Vrije for inequalities in care, and caregiver and collaborators to draw out common threads Universiteit Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, care recipient wellbeing, will inform debate of research interest focused on emerging and with the Technical University of on the potential impact of future policy biotechnologies within a global health Dortmund, in Germany, and Keio University decisions. context, and on issues of value. Questions in Japan. The project team combines expertise explored during the workshop included: Our research examines if and how LTC on LTC arrangements, informal care, and • Can emerging biotechnologies contribute (long-term care) reforms exacerbate existing cross-national analyses from demographic, to global health, and if so how? social disparities in care and in caregiver sociological, gerontological, epidemiological • What is a ‘valuable’ emerging and care recipient wellbeing. It investigates and health economic perspectives. Team biotechnology, and what makes it (a) how different long-term care systems members include Dr Ludovico Carrino, valuable in different global and local and recent long-term care reforms are Research Fellow, and Ginevra Floridi, our contexts? associated with socioeconomic inequalities recently appointed Research Associate. A • What do we mean by ‘innovation’ in in care among older adults, and (b) the Research Assistant will also soon be joining relation to emerging biotechnologies, consequences of these inequalities for the the project. and are definitions of innovation identical across the globe? • What are the key debates which shape stakeholder engagement in the politics of emerging biotechnologies? The workshop demonstrated the diversity of perspectives present in BIOS and their potential complementarity, as they ranged across topics of emerging technologies in healthcare, procreation and reproductive technologies, contemporary solidarity and its many identities in healthcare, the sociology and politics of pharmaceutical innovation, responsible practices in research and innovation, and global mental health and society. New Research Group: Mental Health and Society The department's new research group are interdisciplinary MHS will work closely with stakeholders such as mental health researchers focussed on the socio-political dimensions of mental service users and urban policy makers. This research aims to have health and illness in the Global North and South. The group academic impacts, developing theories and concepts, and practical focuses on the social conditions that contribute to mental distress impacts on the lives of those experiencing mental distress. MHS in urban, community and conflict settings, and on exploring the will work closely with other research groups in the Department, most appropriate responses. This group is working across the social as questions of mental health relate to issues of ageing, culture, sciences and humanities, and across disciplinary interfaces from medicine and power, and to emerging biotechnologies and neuroscience to political economy. neurotechnologies. 2 Department of Global Health & Social Medicine NEWS UNAM-KCL workshop in Mexico City: A GHSM delegation travelled to Mexico on 1–2 April for a bilateral workshop with the UNAM University King’s College London and UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) held a joint research workshop entitled ‘Challenges for Public Policy in the 21th Century: Mental Health, Ageing and Megacities’. he joint workshop was organised by Mauricio Avendano The workshop enabled an opportunity to share research findings and Pabon at GHSM in collaboration with Veronica Montes de discuss potential future collaborations between UNAM and King’s. TOca at UNAM Centre for Social Research, with the support The workshop was open to the public, and more than 100 people of the King’s Global Engagement office and UNAM’s Principal office. attended the event including academics, practitioners and policy The workshop featured presentations by Nik Rose, Dominique makers interested in ageing, cities and mental health. Behague, Karen Glaser, Wei Yang, Ludovico Carrino and Mauricio The event was organised to coincide with a visit to Mexico Avendano from GHSM, as well as presentations by the King’s from King’s Principal Edward Byrne to renew an agreement with Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience’s academics UNAM’s Principal Enrique Graue Wiechers to forge relationships Ricardo Araya (Director of King’s Centre for Global Mental Health) and promote academic mobility between

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