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THE JOHANNESBURG INSTITUTE FOR

ADVANCED STUDY PRESENTS

STATE OF DIS-EASE
A transdisciplinary workshop on South
African health and illness

25 - 28 MARCH 2019
JOHANNESBURG

PROGRAMME

MONDAY
25 MARCH

17.30 – 19.30 LITERATURE AND ILLNESS:


AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION
Chair: Megan Ross, author of Milk Fever
Maneo Mohale, writer, editor, journalist, activist
Lauren Segal, author of Cancer: A Love Story
Kobus Moolman, “Not Falling, but Floating”: A reading
from The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories
Nozizwe Cynthia Jele, author of The Ones with Purpose
Phumlani Pikoli, author of The Fatuous State of Severity
TUESDAY
26 MARCH
10. 00 ARRIVALS AND MORNING TEA

10.30 - 11.40 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS


Bongani Ngqulunga, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS)
Mmamoloko Tryphosa Kubayi-Ngubane, the Minister of Science and Technology
Beth Vale, JIAS’ State of Dis-ease Project

11.00 – 13.00 THE STATE OF HEALTH STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Chair: Susan Levine, UCT Anthropology


Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, WISER
Fareed Abdullah, Medical Research Council
Chris Colvin, UCT School of Public Health
Anthea Rhoda, UWC Community and Health Sciences
Carla Tsampiras, UCT Primary Healthcare Directorate

LAUNCH: BMJ Special Edition on Medical Humanities in Africa

13. 20 LUNCH

14.00 – 15.30 CARE AS WORK


Chair: Gloria Maimela, Wits Reproductive Health Institute
Tendai Mafuma, Section 27, on community health work.
Job Zwane, Wits History Workshop, on the gossip about nurses.
Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Wits Family Medicine, on the health professions.
Leanne Brady, UCT Health Policy & Systems, After the Night: health work & violence

TEA

17.30 – 19.30 WHERE IS MY MIND? ARTISTS, HEALERS AND PRACTITIONERS IN


CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH

Chair: Gillian Eagle, Wits Psychology Department


Sinethemba Makanya, WISER. Ukugula kwabantu: Traditional healers & mental health
Victoria Hume, Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance, Creator of Delirium
Thembela ‘Nymless’ Ngayi, creator of The Great African Horror Story
Tsoku Maela, creator of Abstract Peaces
Melvyn Freeman, Consultant in Mental Health & NCDs

EXHIBITION IN THE BILLIARD ROOM


WEDNESDAY
27 MARCH

10.00 ARRIVALS AND TEA

10.15 ADVOCACY BRIEF: MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (ME/CFS) in South


Africa
Retha Viviers, Director ME/CFS Foundation

10.30 – 12.30 THE BIGGEST HEALTH STORIES OF THE PAST YEAR


Chair: Pontsho Pilane, Health-e
Dylan Bush, Bhekisisa
Sibongile Nkosi, Health-e
Mark Heywood, Section-27
Vuyo Mkize, City Press

LUNCH

14.00 – 15.30 BREATHLESS: THE STATE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN LUNG

Chair: Barry Kistnasamy, Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases


Stacy Hardy, creator of Museum of Lungs
Bavesh Kana, Wits Centre for Excellence for Biomedical TB research
Carina du Toit, Legal Resources Centre, on the silicosis class action
Anastasia Koch, Nomfundo Sibiya & Zondikazi Mtonjeni,
Eh!Woza: art & science to engage youth on TB.

TEA

17.30 – 19.30 DIETS, DIABETES AND DIATRIBES:


THE DIS-EASE ABOUT FOOD

Chair: Desiree Lewis, UWC, Department of Women and Gender Studies


Aviva Tugendhaft, PRICELESS SA, on Big Food and public health policy
Mavhungu Tracy Nelwamondo, food and Functional Medicine
Florian Kroll, School of Public Health UWC, on obesity and food security
Simiso Ntuli, UJ Health Sciences, on The Diabetic Foot

EXHIBITION IN THE BILLIARD ROOM


THURSDAY
28 MARCH

10.00 ARRIVALS AND MORNING TEA

10.30 – 12:30 THE LIVES OF PHARMACEUTICALS

Chair: Beth Vale, JIAS


Zinhle Mncube, UJ Philosophy Department, on the use of racial categories in
biomedicine.
Rebecca Hodes, UCT AIDS Research Unit on Pharmatrash: A contemporary history of
democracy’s detritus.
Leonie Joubert , independent science writer and co-creator of The Psychonauts, on
Psilocybin as Treatment for Depression.
Sibonelo Gumede, Urban Futures Centre, on Opioid Substitution Therapy

LUNCH

14.00 – 15.30 CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD

Facilitator: Beth Vale (JIAS)

15. 30 TEA AND CLOSING

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EXHIBITION IN THE BILLIARD ROOM

FOR MORE INFORMATION

www.stateofdis-ease.com

Director/ Convenor
Dr Beth Vale
beth.nosizwe.vale@gmail.com
082 309 3945

Administrative Team
Reshmi Singh: reshmis@uj.ac.za
Emelia Kamena: emeliak@uj.ac.za
011 559 7533

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