The Faculty of Health Sciences, Office of the Deputy Dean Social Accountability and Health Systems and the School of Public Health invites you to a seminar by Associate Professor Jim Downs titled, "The Untold Story of How Africa Contributed to the Creation of Epidemiology." 

A/Prof Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College  and was a research fellow at Harvard University during 2022. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard UP, 2021), which will be translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. 

His other books include Sick from Freedom: African American Sickness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford UP, 2012) and Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books, 2016). He has published essays in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vice, Slate, The Lancet, LA Times, among others. He is also the editor of Civil War History. He is also a partner at HISTORY STUDIO.

 

Programme:
MC – Dr Itumeleng Ntatamala

  1. "Context: why a critical disciplinary self-introspection is important?"  – Prof Leslie London
  2. The Untold Story of How Africa Contributed to the Creation of Epidemiology”: A/Prof James Jim Downs
  3. Roundtable discussion- Doing Public Health Through a Transformative Lens
    Moderator: A/Prof Tracey Naledi
    Speakers: Ms Sarah Crawford-Browne; Dr Nontsikelelo ‘Ntsiki’ Mapukata Research; Prof Rudzani Muloiwa
  4. Conclusion and vote of thanks – Prof Lionel Green-Thompson