2006 Global Lecture Series
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October 3, 2006
Fairness and Factions in Health: Panel Discussion
Location: Kane Hall Room 130, UW Seattle
Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m.
In this panel discussion, faculty examine how issues of access, culture, trade, finance and regulation affect health care to world citizens. Panel members share research results regarding the challenges and opportunities involved and consider the issues of human rights and health inequities in providing care.
Panel Members:
Karina Walters, William B. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed Professor, School of Social Work
Angelina Godoy, Assistant Professor, Jackson School of Intl Studies; Law, Societies, & Justice
Rachel Chapman, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Beth Rivin, Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Health Services in the SPHCM
Moderated by Congressman Jim McDermott
Panelist Biographies
Karina Walters
William B. and Ruth Gerberding Endowed Professor, School of Social Work
Dr. Walters is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington in the School of Social Work. She is co-founder of the Native Wellness Research center and the Institute for International Indigenous Health and Child Welfare Research at the University of Washington. Dr. Walters is the principal investigator of an NIMH funded seven-site national study on the relationships among traumatic stress, substance use, mental health, cultural resilience, and HIV risk behaviors among LGBT / two-spirit American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Angelina Godoy
Assistant Professor, Jackson School of Intl Studies; Law, Societies, & Justice
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy joined the UW faculty in 2002 after receiving her PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2001. Her recent research has examined issues of violence and social control and their implications for human rights and democracy, particularly in Latin America. Her book on this topic, entitled Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America, was published this spring by Stanford University Press. It focuses on the spread of highly-punitive forms of social control in post-authoritarian Latin America, and on the use of lynchings, extrajudicial executions, and other forms of vigilante ‘justice.’ She is also involved in a new research project exploring the intellectual property rights inscribed in recent free trade agreements and their impact on health and human rights in the global South. Professor Godoy teaches courses in human rights, social theory, and special topics relating to violence, democracy, and the law.
Rachel Chapman
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Rachel Chapman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington. Through her research she seeks to increase understanding of the meaning and politics of race, class and gender identities intersecting with culture and power to impact life chances and quality of people on the margins of society. She studies the reproductive health of women in difficult circumstances, from impoverished women in urban America to women in war torn and AIDS ravished Mozambique.
Professor Chapman received graduate degrees from University of California from Los Angeles, and Yale University, and her undergraduate degree from Yale. She teaches a variety of subjects including African Health and Healing Systems and Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Beth Rivin
Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Health Services in the SPHCM
Professor Rivin directs the Global Health and Justice Project, a multidisciplinary project that is based at the School of Law. The Project encompasses academic activities at UW as well as field activities in developing countries in collaboration with the Seattle-based NGO, Uplift International. She teaches Health and Human Rights, a graduate course that enrolls students from across campus. Her research focus is in the field of Health and Human Rights and her field work is currently in Southeast Asia. She is a co-investigator on the Fogarty Center funded Frameworks in Global Health Grant Project. Professor Rivin is also a co-investigator on a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mapping of Public Health institutions: Country and Institutional Descriptions. Her professional experience ranges from clinical pediatrics and adolescent medicine to field research, epidemiology, and public health and human rights program development and evaluation. In addition to domestic work, Professor Rivin has field experience in Indonesia, China, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Israel. She has consulted with Ministries of Health, large governmental and international organizations, such as USAID and WHO, and NGOs.