Migration, Health and Wellbeing conference, November 2019
This two-day conference aims to bring together experts in research, policy and practice for sharing, learning and paving the way for optimising migrant health and wellbeing. The conference will adhere to a social determinants of health framework which acknowledges the multifaceted factors influencing the health and wellbeing of migrants in their host countries.
We welcome presentations that consider any aspect of migration, health and wellbeing across time and space. All submissions are welcome, including from post-graduate students.
Please provide the following details to Lea Doughty (email: gmevents@otago.ac.nz) before the deadline of 1 June 2019:
- Paper title
- Abstract (200 words maximum)
- Brief biographical information (including institutional affiliation and contact details)
Regrettably, we are unable to provide funding support for participants.
Keynote Speakers:
- Professor Alison Phipps, OBE, University of Glasgow
- Associate Professor Kevin Pottie, Ottawa University
Please see our website for further details: www.otago.ac.nz/global-migrations/conference-2019
2019/20 Visiting Lecturer: Professor Maria Reinaruth Carlos
We are delighted to announce that our 2019/2020 Visiting Scholar will be Professor Maria Reinaruth D. Carlos, Professor of Economics in the Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. Professor Carlos will work with our member Dr Arlene Ozanne to advance their research on overseas-educated nurses working in the elderly care sector in New Zealand and Japan. Part of their research will offer policy ideas to Japan, the world’s most aged country, in its search for long-term solutions to this problem.
During her visit to Dunedin in early 2020, Professor Carlos will give a public lecture examining the links between skills and labour migration patterns and a workshop on overseas-educated nurses in New Zealand’s elderly care sector.
Public talk during Race Relations Week: Migration and Mobility in the Data Age
Free Public Lecture
‘Migration and Mobility in the Data Age: What are the consequences for race and health?’
Dr Ruth De Souza
University of Melbourne
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 12.30pm
Room 118/119, Hunter Centre, 279-281 Great King Street, Dunedin
Information technologies gather and process data on almost every human activity at unprecedented speed and volume, with potential for both timely and novel insights into complex social issues. At the same time, there is growing evidence of inequalities across applications of big data with discriminatory impacts.
In this public lecture during Race Relations Week 2019, Dr Ruth De Souza will explore how data is reshaping migration policies globally, particularly in relation to concerns about terrorism, race and irregular migration and how this transforms understandings of migrant and refugee health and wellbeing.
Dr Ruth De Souza is the Academic Convenor of the Data, Systems and Society Research Network (DSSRN), and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Informatics and Population Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne. A Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, Ruth is particularly concerned with health inequities among refugee, migrant and indigenous communities.
