Conference Presentations

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2021

Manenberg Health Committee (HC). Communities doing it for themselves. School of Public Health and Family Medicine (UCT), Noon Presentation. Communities doing it for themselves. Manenberg HC Download File
Khayelitsha Health Forum (HF). Communities doing it for themselves. School of Public Health and Family Medicine (UCT), Noon Presentation. Communities doing it for themselves. Khayelitsha HF Download File
Klipfontein Health Forum (HF). Experiences from Gugulethu. School of Public Health and Family Medicine (UCT), Noon Presentation. Experiences from Gugulethu. Klipfontein HF Download File
Community-academic engagement: UCT's lessons and challenges. School of Public Health and Family Medicine (UCT), Noon Presentation. Community-academic engagement: UCT's lessons and challenges Download File

2019

Hanne Jensen Haricharan. Health Committees: policy and practice. School of Public Health and Family Medicine (UCT), PHASA. Health Committees: policy and practice Download File
Hanne Jensen Haricharan, Christine Jansen, Nowhi Mdayi, Mzwanya Ndibongo, Tamara Sam, Leslie London. Strengthening community voice through community engaged research: a partnership between the Health and Human Rights Programme and Health Forums in Klipfontein and Khayelitsha. NRF. Strengthening community voice through community engaged research: a partnership between the Health and Human Rights Programme and Health Forums in Klipfontein and Khayelitsha Download File

2018

Hanne Jensen Haricharan. Countervailing power in Health Committee participation Countervailing power in Health Committee participation Download File
Hanne Jensen Haricharan. The ambiguities of invited participation The ambiguities of invited participation Download File
Hanne Jensen Haricharan. An Invitation to Participation An Invitation to Participation Download File
Hanne Jensen Haricharan. Evaluation of the LN EU project with Health Committees Evaluation of the LN EU project with Health Committees Download File
Theodore Abrahams. Community participation and the right to health for people with disability: A qualitative study into Health Committees’ understanding and practise of their governance role in relation to disability Community participation and the right to health for people with disability Download File

2017

Hanne Jensen Haricharan. Possibilities and limitations for participation in the invited space: An analysis of the WC Health Committees Act Possibilities and limitations for participation in the invited space: An analysis of the WC Health Committees Act Download File
Leslie London.Capacity Building of Health Committees in the Region a Regional Audit of training. HCC Regional Review Meeting, 20 June 2017 Capacity Building of HCs in the Region Presentation Download File


2016

Health and Human Rights programme, UCT Leslie London, Fundiswa Kibido, Hanne Haricharan, Nikki Schaay. The Western Cape Health Facility Boards and Committees Bill [B1-2016], South Africa, 13 May 2016. WC HFBC Presentation Download File
Leslie London, Hanne Haricharan, Maria Stuttaford, Damaris Kiewiets,Pat Mayers,Fundiswa Kibido, Moses Mulumba. Enhancing Health System responsiveness through Community Participation: Health Committees as vehicles for meaningful participation GSHR 2016 Poster Presentation Download File
Health and Human Rights Programme, School of Public Health and Family Medicine; and Division of Nursing, University of Cape Town, Learning Network for Health and Human Rights Cape Metro Healthcare Forum.  Health Committees, Participation and Accountability –Strategies for Strengthening the Health System. South Africa, October 2016. Health Committees, participation and Accountability Presentation Download File
Pat Mayers. Healthcare Users’ Experience as a Focus for Unlocking Opportunities to Access Quality Health Services. Vienna, 2016. EU health forum 2016- UCT Patient Experience Presentation Download File
Community Systems Strengthening Presentation by Karen Roos, Women on Farms; Rosina Mbobo & Leslie London, UCT; Anita Marshall, Training for Transition. SEJA Community Systems Strengthening Presentation Download File

2015

UCT School of Public Health and Family Medicine; Kings College, London; Cape Metro Health Care Forum; DEAFSA and Learning Network for Health and Human Rights. Healthcare Users’ Experience as a Focus for Unlocking Opportunities to Access Quality Health Services. 23 November 2015 adapted Feb 2016 EU-NDOH Seminar Presentation Download File

2013

Colvin C. What Does the Right to Health Mean from a Human Rights Perspective? Western Cape Provincial Office stakeholder intervention on the right to access health care, Vredenburg, South Africa, 9 October 2013. Dr Chris Colvin Presentations Download File

2012

Fick N. Photovoice: Using visual materials for the Right to Health. People's Health Assembly 3, Global Health Summit, Cape Town, South Afirca, 6 - 11 July 2012

London, L. Social participation and the right to health: Sharing and mapping out experiences of collective action. People's Health Assembly 3, Global Health Summit, Cape Town, South Afirca, 6 - 11 July 2012

Haricharan H. Extending Participation: Challenges to Health committees as meaningful structures for community participation
People's Health Assembly 3, Global Health Summit, Cape Town, South Afirca, 6 - 11 July 2012

Stuttaford M, Kiewiets D, Nefdt W, Reynolds V, Rhodes G, Sigasana L and London L (2012) Conceptualising Implementation of the Right to Health: the Learning Network for Health and Human Rights, Western Cape, South Africa. Paper presented by Maria Stuttaford at the ‘International Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Law and Global Health’, University College London Laws, 2-3 July 2012.

Haricharan H.Extending Participation: How Can Health Committees Become Effective Vehicles for Realizing the Right to Health Through Participation? British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya: The Prospect of the Right to Health in Eastern Africa, 2012. 

2011

Haricharan H. Limitations to Participation: Challenges to Health committees as meaningful structures for community participation. Public Health Association South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2011. 

Haricharan H. Existing in a vacuum: Health committees as meaningful structures for community participation. Jubilee Congress of the Commission on Legal Pluralism, Living Realities of Legal Pluralism, Cape Town, South Africa, 2011.  

2010

Haricharan H. What do health committees need to become effective structures for community participation? Public Health Association in South Africa, East London, South Africa, 2010. 

Mestry K. The right to health in light of concepts of individual and collective human rights: What contribution can African theories and philosophies make? Presentation to PERC seminar series, University of Cape Town, March 19 2010.

2009

Haricharan H. ‘Feeling freedom’ an anthropological perspective from Cape Town on the right of access to health care for Deaf people who use South African Sign Language (SASL). The Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Advancing Human Rights through qualitative Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2009. 

Thomas J, Fritz D. Operationalising the right to health through a learning network. Presentation to Third EQUINET Regional Conference on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa, Speke Conference Center, Munyonyo, Kampala, Uganda, September 23-25, 2009.

London L, Schneider H. Globalisation and health inequalities: Can a human rights paradigm offer a solution? Presentation to Third EQUINET Regional Conference on Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa, Speke Conference Center, Munyonyo, Kampala, Uganda, September 23-25, 2009.

London L, Mbombo N, Thomas J, Loewenson R, Mulumba M, Mukono A. Parliamentary committee experiences in promoting the right to health in East and Southern Africa. Presentation to 5th Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) conference, Durban, 2009.

Nako E, Stuttaford M. Exploring the Right to Health of Individuals and Collectives in the Western Cape, South Africa through a Spiral of Co-Learning. 5th Conference on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2009.

2008

London L. What is a human rights approach in health and why does it matter? Global Health Issues and Human Rights Seminar, Institute of Health, Warwick University, June 2008.

Thomas J. Is knowing that you have rights enough? A learning network to realise the right to health - Taking action to realise the right to health at community level. Global Health Issues and Human Rights Seminar, Institute of Health, Warwick University, June 2008
 

Conference Posters

Fick N. A case study of a civil society organisation taking action to redress a health rights violation. Poster Presentation to 5th Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) conference, Durban, 2009.

Glattstein-Young G. Community health committees as a vehicle for participation in advancing the right to health. Poster Presentation to 5th Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) conference, Durban, 2009.