Research workshop: Cash transfers and Decolonising Global Public Health

MS Teams - please email FASS-Research-Office@open.ac.uk and a Teams link will be sent.

Given a growing literature on the topic of decolonising global public health, this workshop provides a platform to unpack the colonial nature of cash transfers as an intervention seeking to address poor health outcomes and ‘unhealthy’ behaviour in the countries of the Global South, with a particular focus on Africa.

09.30-09.45 INTRODUCTION

•  Cash transfers, social policy and decolonising global health (Dr Kevin Deane and Dr Julia Chukwuma, The Open University)

09.45-10.30 PANEL 1  

• Trials, cash transfers and other ways to simplify complex realities (Dr Seye Abimbola, University of Sydney
•   Choice-less democracy revisited: the politics of cash transfer policy-making in Africa (Dr Marion Ouma, Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala)
• The coloniality of Randomised Control Trials (Dr Sara Stevano, SOAS University of London)

10.30-11.00 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

11.00-11.30 BREAK

11.30-12.15 PANEL 2

• Cash transfers and the political economy of debt (Prof Lena Lavinas, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
•  Cash transfers for the elderly: how promising is this for Kenya's future social protection systems? (Dr Anne Kamau, University of Nairobi)
•  The colonial shadows of cash transfers and the promise for HIV prevention in east and southern Africa (Daniel Nyato, Queen Mary University of London) 12.15-12.45 Q&A AND DISCUSSION

12.45-13.00 WRAP-UP AND CLOSURE

• Next steps (Dr Kevin Deane & Dr Julia Chukwuma, The Open University)

Please reach out to kevin.deane@open.ac.uk or julia.chukwuma@open.ac.uk if you have any querie