Gendered Familial Care Work
and
Public Health Crises
Conference
Schedule
July 20-23, 2021
The conference is free and open to the public.
If you have any questions, please send an email to the following address:
gender-health-conference@etal.uri.edu
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS
20-23 July 2021
The conference is scheduled for 9am- 12:30 pm (New York City time)
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Tuesday July 20th, 2021
New York City Time: 9am -12:30 pm
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 1pm- 4:30pm
| Time
(New York City time)
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Presenters | Presentation title | |
| 9:00am – 9:05 am | Zahra Meghani
Philosophy Department, University of Rhode Island, USA |
Welcome to the Gendered Familial Care Work and Public Health Crises conference | |
| 9:05 am- 9:15 am | Jen Riley,
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Rhode Island, USA |
Welcome from URI, and introduction to the scheduled presentations | |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am
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Urvija Priyadarshini,
Women’s Studies, University of Hyderabad, India |
A fractured parenthood: An auto-ethnographic account of a parent’s mental illness (schizophrenia), gendered care-giving, systemic limitations in illness management and coping strategies | |
| 9:30 am – 9:40 am | Q & A session | ||
| 9:40 am – 9:50 am | Break | ||
| 9:50 am – 10:05 am | Flavia Kyomukama, Jackie Kemigisha, & Frederick Okwir
Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA) Uganda |
Assessing the Level of Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Management of HIV Positive Widows during Covid-19 Pandemic in Peri-Urban Areas | |
| 10:05 am – 10:15 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:15 am – 10:25 am | Break | ||
| 10: 25 am – 10:40 am | Ofelia Becerril Quintana
Centro de Estudios Rurale El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico |
Familial care work and public health crises among Mexican women workers in the United States | |
| 10: 40 am – 10:50 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:50 am – 11:00 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Jyotishmita Sarma
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India |
The Disabled Family and the Lived Experiences of Women with Disabilities in Assam | |
| 11:15 am – 11:25 am | Q & A session | ||
| 11:25 am – 11:55 am | Roundtable discussion and Q & A with presenters of the day: Urvija Priyadarshini, Flavia Kyomukama, Jackie Kemigisha, Frederick Okwir, Ofelia Becceril Quintana, Jyotishmita Sarma, and Eva Kittay | ||
| 11:55 am – 12:05 pm | Break | ||
| 12:05 pm – 12:20 pm | Eva Feder Kittay -Plenary Speaker
Philosophy, State University of New Your, Stony Brook, USA Q & A session |
Care as Infrastructure | |
| 12:20 – 12:30 pm | Q&A | ||
Wednesday July 21th, 2021
New York City Time: 9am -12:30 pm
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 1pm- 4:30pm
| Time (New York City time)
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Presenters | Presentation title | |
| 9:00am – 9:05 am | Zahra Meghani
Philosophy Department, University of Rhode Island, USA (Conference organizer) |
Welcome to the Gendered Familial Care Work and Public Health Crises conference | |
| 9:05 am- 9:15 am | Susana de los Heros
Professor of Spanish and Spanish Section Head University of Rhode Island, USA |
Welcome from URI, and introduction to the scheduled presentations | |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am
|
Juliet Nabyonga-Orem- Plenary Speaker
WHO Africa Regional Office, Zimbabwe |
Towards universal health coverage, the need for innovative approaches to reach women and children in low-income countries | |
| 9:30 am – 9:40 am | Q & A session | ||
| 9:40 am – 9:50 am | Break | ||
| 9:50 am – 10:05 am | Ramya Kumar1, Anne-Emanuelle Birn2, Rupaleem Bhuyan3, & Josephine Pui-Hing Wong4
1. Public health, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka 2. Critical development studies and public health, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Canada 3. Social work, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada 4. Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Ryerson University, Canada |
Can a mixed health system achieve truly equitable access to healthcare? Universal health coverage and gendered hybrid arrangements within Sri Lanka’s public-private system | |
| 10:05 am – 10:15 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:15 am – 10:25 am | Break | ||
| 10: 25 am – 10:40 am | Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira 1 & Magali Alloatti 2
1. Economics, FLACSO – Brazil 2. Independent Researcher, Sociology, Brazil |
Gendering the crisis: austerity and the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil
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| 10: 40 am – 10:50 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:50 am – 11:00 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Bhumika Muchhala 1, Constanza Pauchulo 2, and Amanda Frame 3
1. Feminist Economics Third World Network and The New School for Social Research, USA 2. Programme Officer International Women’s Rights Action Watch-Asia Pacific 3. J.D. Candidate, NYU Law School, USA |
This is your Grandmother’s IMF:
Ending the austerity bias through feminist fiscal policy and care-centred COVID-19 transition plans |
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| 11:15 am – 11:25 am | Q & A session | ||
| 11:25 am – 11:55 am | Roundtable discussion and Q & A with presenters of the day: Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Rupaleem Bhuyan, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira, Magali N. Alloatti, Bhumika Muchhala, Constanza Pauchulo, and Amanda Frame | ||
Thursday July 22nd, 2021
New York City Time: 9am -12:30 pm
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 1pm- 4:30pm
| Time (New York City time)
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Presenters | Presentation title | |
| 9:00am – 9:05 am | Zahra Meghani
Philosophy Department, University of Rhode Island, USA (Conference organizer) |
Welcome to the Gendered Familial Care Work and Public Health Crises conference | |
| 9:05 am- 9:15 am | Evelyn Sterne
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, USA |
Welcome from URI, and introduction to the scheduled presentations | |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am
|
Ritumoni Das & Ananya Goswami,
Social Policy, UNICEF Assam, India |
Understanding Women’s Agency: Breaking Gender Barriers | |
| 9:30 am – 9:40 am | Q & A session | ||
| 9:40 am – 9:50 am | Break | ||
| 9:50 am – 10:05 am | Nancy Folbre -Plenary Speaker
Economics, University of Massachusetts, USA |
Health and Care | |
| 10:05 am – 10:15 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:15 am – 10:25 am | Break | ||
| 10: 25 am – 10:40 am | Aneka Paul
Social Work Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India |
Forever Etched:
Experiences of Family Caregivers in Home-based Palliative Care |
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| 10: 40 am – 10:50 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:50 am – 11:00 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Emcet Oktay Taş & Tanima Ahmed
South Asia Gender Innovation Lab World Bank, USA |
Women’s Economic Participation, Time Use, and Access to Childcare in Urban Bangladesh | |
| 11:15 am – 11:25 am | Q & A session | ||
| 11:25 am – 11:35 am | Break | ||
| 11:35 am – 11:50 am | Colleen O’Manique- Plenary Speaker
International Development Studies & Gender and Women’s Studies Trent University, Canada |
Neoliberalism, Social Reproduction and Our Pandemic Present | |
| 11:50 am – noon | Q & A session | ||
| Noon – 12:30 pm | Roundtable discussion and Q & A with presenters of the day: Ritumoni Das, Ananya Goswami, Nancy Folbre, Aneka Paul, Emcet Oktay Taş, Tanima Ahmed, Colleen O’Manique | ||
Friday July 23rd, 2021
New York City Time: 9am -12:30 pm
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 1pm- 4:30pm
| Time (New York City time) | Presenters | Presentation title | |
| 9:00am – 9:15 am | Zahra Meghani
Philosophy Department, University of Rhode Island, USA |
Welcome to the Gendered Familial Care Work and Public Health Crises conference, and introduction to the scheduled presentations | |
| 9:15 am – 9:30 am
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Cati Coe
Anthropology. Rutgers University, USA |
The invisibility of changes in care work | |
| 9:30 am – 9:40 am | Q & A session | ||
| 9:40 am – 9:50 am | Break | ||
| 9:50 am – 10:05 am | Adjeiwa Akosua Affram1, Stephen Nortey1, Justice Nonvignom1, Ulrika Enemark2, Charles Godfred Ackah3 & Isabella Aboderin4
1. Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Public Health. University of Ghana, Ghana 2. Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark 3. Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, Ghana 4. Aging and Development Unit, African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), Kenya |
Long term care in Ghana: Scope and opportunities for expanding elder care | |
| 10:05 am – 10:15 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:15 am – 10:25 am | Break | ||
| 10: 25 am – 10:40 am | Sunita Singh 1, Isabelle Lange 2, and Loveday Penn-kekana 3
1. Demography, Institute of Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand 2. Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK 3. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, , London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK |
The Many Hands of Devi – the tension between rural Indian
community health workers’ personal and professional life and their involvement with the private sector in Northern India: An ethnographic study of Community Health Workers in rural India |
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| 10: 40 am – 10:50 am | Q & A session | ||
| 10:50 am – 11:00 am | Break | ||
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Shaveta Menon 1, Ramila Bisht 2, and Balakrishnan Nair3
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Role demands and work-family conflicts among ASHA workers in India | |
| 11:15 am – 11:25 am | Q & A session | ||
| 11:25 am – 11:35 am | Break | ||
| 11:35 am – 11:50 am | Madhumita Dobe -Plenary Speaker
Public Health All India institute of hygiene & public health Kolkata, India |
Gender Truths: In Covid and care | |
| 11:50 am – noon | Q & A session | ||
| Noon – 12:30 pm | Roundtable discussion and Q & A with presenters of the day: Madhumita Dobe, Sunita Singh, Ramila Bisht, Shaveta Menon, Balakrishnan Nair, Adjeiwa Akosua Affram, Stephen Nortey, Justice Nonvignom, Ulrika Enemark, Charles Godfred Ackah, & Isabella Aboderin
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