Prof Tiziana Leone CON.8.11

This course is available on the MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Management (LSE and Sciences Po), MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Economic Policy for International Development, MSc in Health and International Development and MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Places will be allocated with priority first to MSc Health and International Development students and then to students on International Development and joint-degree programmes.

In cases where there are more applicants than spaces places will be allocated randomly in accordance with the priorities listed above.

Spare places for non-ID/Joint Degree students will be allocated by random selection, with preference given to degrees that permit this option.

The course adopts a multidisciplinary approach (IR, Political economy, global health, anthropology, health systems) to the study of health and crises, in particular conflict, pandemics, and environmental disasters. The course examines the politics and experiences of crisis and their humanitarian health responses and considers the ways in which conflict and disasters impact population health, health systems, medical research, as well as national and international and politics. The course considers the politics of medical and pharmaceutical research in contexts of crisis and looks at the politics of risk in healthcare. The aim is to draw parallels and lessons learned on crises and how they affect systems and decision making. 

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the WT.

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6.

The teaching will rotate among the 4 core teachers and each set of two lectures will have an extended 2 hours seminar where discussion will be complemented by group work set up in advance.

Students will be expected to produce a project proposal and key questions for the summative assessment (two pages maximum) in the WT.

• Hutchinson E, Kovats S, eds. (2016) Environment, Health and Sustainable Development. Second edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
• Walt G, Shiffman J, Schneider H, Murray S, Brugha R, Franco M, Bilal U, Diez-Roux AV. (2015) Preventing non-communicable diseases through structural changes in urban environments. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 69(6): 509. 6.
• Abramowitz, S., & Panter-Brick, C. (2015). Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Benton, A., & Atshan, S. E. (2016). “Even War has Rules”: On Medical Neutrality and Legitimate Non-violence. Culture, medicine, and psychiatry, 40(2), 151-158.
• Caduff, C. (2015) The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
• Kelly, A.H. (2018) ‘Ebola Vaccines, Evidentiary Charisma and the Rise of Global Health Emergency Research’, Economy and Society, 47(1), 135–61
• Redfield, P. 2013. Life in Crisis: the ethical journey of doctors without borders. London: UCP.
• Magone, C., Neuman, M., & Weissman, F. (Eds.). (2012). Humanitarian negotiations revealed: the MSF experience. Oxford University Press.
• Vigh, Henrik. (2008) "Crisis and chronicity: Anthropological perspectives on continuous conflict and decline." Ethnos, 73(1), 5-24.
• James, M. V., & Lees, S. S. (2022). “Are you sure it’s not the Corona vaccine?” An Ebola vaccine trial during COVID-19 in DRC. Medical anthropology, 41(5), 503-517.

Project (100%) in the ST.

Words for the assessment: A range between 3000 and 4000 words, 8 pages.