Department for International Development (DFID) lectures and seminars
The UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) supports a programme of public lectures. These usually take place at LSE but sometimes at other institutions in the UK and abroad.
See also Millennium Development Goals: HIV, AIDS, malaria and other diseases on the Department for International Development website.
2008 Lectures
Date
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Title
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Speakers
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Location
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15 May 18:30-20:00
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Lecture: AIDS: Exceptionalism Revisited Dr Piot will review the response to AIDS, now and over the longer term, and examine its relationship with other key health and development issues
Download announcement: AIDS: Exceptionalism Revisited
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Dr Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations |
Old Theatre |
11 March 18:30-20:00
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Lecture: Infectious Disease Pandemics: Social and Economic Factors in the Development of Public Health Policy This lecture will examine the key determinants of the spread of infectious diseases and their evolution in our changing world.
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Professor Sir Roy Anderson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Rector elect at Imperial College London |
Hong Kong Theatre |
12 February 18:30-20:00
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Lecture: Access to Prevention and Treatment of AIDS in the Developing World: Evidence for Hope Professor Kazatchkine’s lecture will illustrate the challenges faced by those working to fight HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
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Professor Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |
Old Theatre |
6 February 18:30-20:00
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Lecture: The Politics of AIDS Exceptionalism This lecture asks has the global AIDS response been good for human rights but bad for disease control?
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Dr. Alex de Waal, Program Director, US Social Science Research Council |
Hong Kong Theatre |
10 January 18:30-20:00
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Lecture: The Global State of Influenza Pandemic Preparedness
Dr. Nabarro will review the impact of past epidemics on humanity and society and will explore current efforts to respond to and prepare for a new pandemic influenza outbreak.
Download PowerPoint presentation: nabarro_2008.ppt
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Dr. David Nabarro, Senior UN System Influenza Coordinator |
New Theatre, East Building |
2007 Lectures
2006 Lectures
Date
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Title
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Speakers
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Location
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30 November 18:30-20:30
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Lecture: HIV/AIDS: prevention, treatment and care - how will the world deliver Universal Access by 2010? We are particularly pleased to welcome the Secretary of State who – on the eve of World AIDS Day – will report on global progress in providing universal access to anti-retroviral therapies – perhaps the greatest challenge of health care delivery in human history.
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The Right Honourable Hilary Benn, MP Secretary of State for International Development, DFID
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Hong Kong Theatre |
29 November
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Lecture: Economics and the struggle for treatment access in South Africa
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Nathan Geffen Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa
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22 November 18:30-20:30
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Lecture: Plagues and peoples – Where do we stand with HIV prevention in Africa? From the Black Death to bird flu, outbreaks and epidemics have been around as long as humankind, dynamically interacting with politics, economics, culture and history; Paul Pronyk puts forward the idea that HIV/AIDS is no exception, and uses his understanding of epidemics to explore why prevention efforts are (largely) faltering in Africa.
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Dr Paul Pronyk Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Room: U8 Tower 1
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16 November 18:30-20:30
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Lecture: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Electoral Processes in Africa: Crisis and Opportunity Using a seven country comparative study conducted by IDASA, Mr Chirambo will address the political and economic effects of AIDS on strategic political institutions that contribute to quality of governance. He will report on his important and unique studies on the links between AIDS mortality and political stability in Southern Africa.
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Mr Kondwani Chirambo Manager, Governance and AIDS Programme, Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
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Room: U8 Tower 1
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9 November 1230-1430
NOTE THIS IS A LUNCH TIME EVENT
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Seminar: The effects of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods and agricultural production systems in Zambia: A longitudinal study AIDS kills mature adults, cutting down the amount of labour available to agricultural production. How adaptable are individuals and social groups in terms of their adaptability and resilience to HIV/AIDS? Using a unique longitudinal study spanning twelve years, Fiona Samuels and Michael Drinkwater examine the impact of AIDS on farming, livelihoods and social change in two areas of Zambia.
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Dr Fiona Samuels Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
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Dr Michael Drinkwater
Senior Program Advisor, CARE International
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Room: U8 Tower 1 |
7 November 18:30-20:30
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Lecture: Gender and HIV : Violence and women's vulnerability to HIV infection: dimensions and responses. Professor Watts will present evidence on the levels of HIV infection, and levels of violence against women globally. She will illustrate how violence against women fundamentally undermines strategies of abstinence, behaviour change and condom use (ABC), which are being promoted for HIV prevention by the US Government.
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Professor Charlotte Watts Head of the Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Room: U8 Tower 1
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26 October 18:30-20:30
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Lecture: A “Lethal Cocktail”: Multiple Concurrent Sexual Partners and Lack of Male Circumcision Drive the Explosive HIV Epidemic in Southern Africa Dr Daniel Halperin has been a leading advocate of male circumcision as a major prevention intervention. Here he will explore a number of related but previously neglected factors in the epidemic. These include: low rates of male circumcision, extensive sexual networking, and hopes to shed greater light on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
Papers of interest:
Male Circumcision Thwarts HIV Infection
Partner reduction and the prevention of HIV/AIDS
Suggested Reading List
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Dr Daniel Halperin Technical Adviser for Prevention/Behaviour Change, USAID Southern Africa Regional HIV/AIDS Program
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Room: U8 Tower 1
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9 October 18:30-20:30
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Lecture: Women and AIDS: From Here Where? Dr. Rao Gupta will trace the progress made in the understanding of women’s special vulnerabilities in the epidemic. She will review the key historical events, scholarly efforts, and community responses that have contributed to increased insight. She will then pose some uncomfortable questions about this record.
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Dr Geeta Rao Gupta President of the International Centre for Research on Women
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Hong Kong Theatre |
24 May 6:30 pm |
HIV/AIDS in the 21st Century: Looking Forward to What?
Barnett Presentation : Whiteside Presentation
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Chair: Professor Gwyn Prins
Speakers: Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside |
LSE, Old Theatre, Old Building |
10 March
4:30 pm |
A Screening of "Living with AIDS"
with the film-maker Sorious Samura
in conjunction with DESTIN
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Sorious Samura
Professor Tony Barnett, LSEAIDS |
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE |
2005 lectures
Date
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Title
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Speakers
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Location
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1 December
7:00 pm |
HIV/AIDS: Sundering The Bonds Of Human Society? Implications for development in Africa and elsewhere
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Professor Tony Barnett, LSEAIDS |
Diplomatic Academy,
Vienna |
11 October
6:30 pm |
Disease and Security
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Laurie Garrett
US Council for Foreign Relations
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Old Theatre
LSE |
8 June
12:30 pm |
Moral challenges in the management of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa |
Prof. Anton van Niekerk
University of Stellenbosch |
H216
Connaught House,
LSE |
19 May
6:00 pm |
Local understandings of HIV/AIDS: cross-cultural perspectives
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Prof. Tony Barnett (chair) |
Stevenson Theatre
British Museum |
19 May
12:30 pm |
"Evidence or Methodology: What Limits Global AIDS Policy?"
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Eileen Stillwaggon,
Gettysburg College |
S75, St Clement's Building,
LSE |
16 May
5:30 pm |
"How is science proposing to prevent HIV transmission - what social scientists need to know"
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Professor Jonathan Weber, Imperial College |
S50, St Clement's Building,
LSE |
17 March
6:30 pm |
“The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A successful experiment in development finance or just another donor?”
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Jon Liden of the Global Fund |
D502
Clement House,
LSE |
25 February
4:00 pm |
The long-term economic costs of AIDS |
Shanta Devarajan,
Chief Economist, Human Development Network, World Bank |
Hong Kong Theatre,
LSE |
8 February
6:30 pm |
Why AIDS is exceptional
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Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS |
Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE |
2004 lectures
Date
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Title
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Speakers
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Location
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5 November |
The Macro-economics of HIV/AIDS - the limits of economic models and what they can tell us in a crisis |
Markus Haacker, International Monetary Fund (IMF) |
LSE |
10 May |
Thinking About the Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS |
Professor Clive Bell |
LSE |
29 April |
AIDS in Africa 2025: three alternative futures - the UNAIDS/ Shell scenario results (see Scenario Building Workshop on the UNAIDS website) |
Dr Julia Cleves
Dr Patrick Noake |
LSE |
19 March |
Costing the HIV/ AIDS Epidemic: relational goods, hedonic costs and other issues |
Professor Tony Barnett |
LSE |
14 February |
HIV/ AIDS: Why Policies Do Not Work: a day conference in association with the UK Development Studies Association (see the HIV/ AIDS page on the Development Studies Association website) |
Dr James Putzel
Dr Tim Allen
Dr Suzette Heald
Dr Ken Shadlen
Dr Heather Zhang |
LSE |
13 February |
States of Preparedness: the HIV/ AIDS epidemic in the Balkans, Baltic, eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (see HIV/AIDS preparedness: Eastern Europe, The CIS, Balkans and Baltic: A situation report) |
Professor Tony Barnett |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
5 February |
HIV/ AIDS and its Impact |
Professor Tony Barnett |
Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh | ^
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