[IMC Bombay] Public Health and the City

[PUKAR @ The Paperie]

Dear Friends:

PUKAR cordially invites its Associates, Advisors, and friends to a 
discussion on "Public Health and the City", with presentations by:

NEHA MADHIWALA
PhD Candidate, Mumbai University Dept of Sociology
Senior Research Officer, CEHAT, Mumbai

SVATI SHAH
PhD Candidate, Columbia University Depts of Anthropology and Public 
Health, U.S.A.

NEHA MADHIWALA has been pursuing her PhD at the Department of 
Sociology, University of Mumbai since June 2000. She has worked as a 
senior research officer in the Centre for Enquiry in Health and 
Allied Themes (CEHAT), Mumbai between 1996 and 2000, and from 2001 
onwards. She will share her experiences of working on health issues 
in Mumbai. Urban health issues in India fall between the cracks of 
public health policy. There is no clear model into which one can 
situate the existing reality of India's cities. To unravel the 
complexity of urban health, one must understand the paradox created 
by a medical sector which exists in a highly developed market -- 
which mesmerises professionals and lay-persons alike, but whose 
dynamic excludes the most vulnerable, and makes it impossible for 
larger community-based public health solutions to emerge.

SVATI SHAH is a PhD candidate in Columbia University's joint 
programme in Public Health and Anthropology. Her dissertation work is 
on migration, sex  work and gender in the Mumbai construction
industry. This paper will provide a brief description of preliminary 
findings on sex work among women in the construction industry in Navi 
Mumbai. Intersections with health issues on the ground will be 
discussed in the context of the growing NGO market for HIV/AIDS 
related interventions among poor migrant labourers. The field 
research will also be connected with issues of sexuality, agency and 
broad categories such as "feminization of migrancy" being adopted by 
international funders and the Breton Woods organizations.


Date:
SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 2002
6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.

At:
The BOMBAY PAPERIE
Mezzanine Floor, Soonawalla Building
59, Bombay Samachar Marg
Opposite the Stock Exchange
Fort, Bombay 400001

R.S.V.P.
Phone Shekhar Krishnan or Rahul Srivastava at 2077779
E-Mail <pukar@bol.net.in>

About PUKAR @ The Paperie:

This discussion, and future gatherings focused on discussing issues 
of common interest and concern to the PUKAR Associates, is part of a 
monthly programme organised by PUKAR for invited friends and guests 
at The Bombay Paperie, Fort. These gatherings are usually held on the 
third or fourth Saturday of every month at 6.00 p.m. PUKAR thanks the 
Manager of The Bombay Paperie, Neeta Premchand, for hosting PUKAR @ 
The Bombay Paperie. We look forward to your attendance and 
participation, and suggesting names of people and organisations to 
add to our mailing list.


Regards,


Rahul Srivastava, Shekhar Krishnan and Vyjayanthi Rao
Coordinators
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
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