About the network
Global health challenges in society include risks due to antimicrobial resistance, persistent environmental pollutants, and changing needs in healthcare provision with aging populations, to name a few. Developments in technoscience, systems biology, new ‘omics’ approaches, personalized medicine, e-health, robotics in healthcare provision have challenged previous ways of studying these and given rise to societal concerns. Citizen science, popular epidemiology and new publics emerging with social media demand novel ways of engaging with health and biotechnology matters. Ways to address global health challenges locally need to be grounded in an in-depth understanding of the relations between knowledge, technologies and societies.
Our network and collaborative research project aims to contribute to the above field by opening up the societal aspects of responding to these global health challenges. A transnational approach with a focus on the Russian Federation and Norway has great potential to enrich previous research into societal issues in science, technology and medicine in this area. The relationships between science and the state, health registries and data technologies as well as the organization of healthcare services are distinct and have been co-shaped by post-socialist conditions in Russia and the Scandinavian welfare state in Norway.
The network especially aims to bridge the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), health policy studies, and medical humanities. STS has emerged as a vibrant field of research that can make key novel contributions into addressing global health concerns. The value of these contributions lies in going beyond approaches that focus solely on technological, biomedical or policy-making domains and providing analytical resources to address and respond to the public health challenges. The network helps facilitate conditions in which collaboration can be sustained and joint innovative research developed. The network comprises senior and junior scholars from different disciplines related to the social studies of science, technology and medicine.
The kickoff meeting of the network was held at the Norwegian University Centre St. Petersburg on 14th-16th November 2017. The network held its second workshop at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo on 4-6 June 2018, in conjunction with a Seminar “Developing Research-Based Education: Towards Participatory Engagement with Health Matters”. The third Network Meeting took place as Strategy Meeting 10-12 December 2018, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, including a visit to the Norwegian Research Council.
Ongoing and future activities
The group submitted a scholarly panel to the scientific conference “Social Sciences and Health Innovations: Multiplicities”, held in Tomsk in May 23-25, 2019. The network's panel Beyond One Health. The Politics of Inclusion and Multiplicity was accepted by the organizers and preparations are under way.
The group will continue to collaborate through exchange activities (students and lecturers) and research-based education under the new educational project “Bridging Boundaries: Science and Technology in Society”, funded for 2019-2020 by DIKU.
News
Exchange experience at the PAST-Centre, Tomsk State University
Events
Jun. 4-6, 2018: Second Academic Network Workshop "Global Challenges: Beyond One Health"
Network Meeting and Seminar Research-Based Education, 4-6 June 2018 at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo
Nov. 14, 2017: Workshop St. Petersburg
Time and place: Nov. 14, 2017 – Nov. 16, 2017, Norwegian University Centre St. Petersburg
The first workshop of the Norwegian-Russian network will be held at the Norwegian University Centre St. Petersburg, 14.-16. November 2017
Academic Network Global Challenges. Science, Technology and Medicine
Workshop programme
Tue Nov 14: Day of arrival
- 19:30: Dinner meeting
Wed Nov 15
- 09:30 Welcome and Centre Introduction
- 09:45 Opening Talk & Discussion: Kristin Asdal, Oslo:Enacting the good economy: The little tools of valuations – in STS and in innovation
- 10:30-12:00 Beyond One Health I: Cosmopolitics and More-than-Human Global Health. Presentations and discussion. Chair: Johanna Gonçalves Martín
- Alena Kamenshchikova, Maastricht/Tomsk: The One Health Approach to Antimicrobial
- Resistance: Controversies of Inclusion
- Klasien Horstman, Maastricht: Stool and Stories (via skype)
- Olga Fedorova, Tomsk: Opisthorchiasis in Western Siberia: One-Health approach for the control of the disease
- 13:30-15:00 Understanding Health Communication. Presentations and discussion. Chair: Olga Federova
- Ekaterina Borozdina, St Petersburg: Transformations of professionalism in Post-Soviet Healthcare
- Denis Tyufilin, Tomsk: Face 2 Face. Clinical Trials in Russia Through Patients’ Eyes
- Susanne Bauer, Oslo: Following the Algorithm. The Social Life of Risk Scores
- Ekaterina Koroleva, Tomsk: Epidemiological research in the Tomsk region
- 15:15-17:00 Chronic Health: the role of citizens and DIT (Do-It-Together) in designing a healthy future
- Talk and workshop facilitated by Sabine Wildevuur, Creative Care Lab, Waag Society
Thu Nov 16
- 09:30-12:00 Between State Public Health and Do-it-Yourself movements. Presentations & discussion. Chair: Evgeniya Popova
- Jan Reinerts Karlsen, Bergen: The human deposit: The problem of conceptualising the human genome in the making of Norwegian biobank regulations
- Olga Ustyuzhantseva, Tomsk: Inclusive innovation in health care in India
- Olga Zvonareva, Maastricht/Tomsk: Rethinking participation: insights from post-socialist settings
- Ana Delgado, Oslo: Antibiotic resistance: The infrastructuring of a public issue.
- 13:30-15:00 Beyond One Health II – Politics of Inclusion. Presentations & discussion. Chair: TBA
- Lyubov Torlopova, Tomsk: STS approaches to the construction of disability in Russia
- Alexandra Kurlenkova, Moscow: Sensory-technological practices of people with vision impairments: some conceptual and practical thoughts on ways to better social inclusion
- Johanna Gonçalves Martín, Lausanne: Incorporating new others in One-Health cosmopolitics: objects and spirits
- 15:00-17:00 Summing up and Planning. Chairs: Olga Zvonareva, Evgeniya Popova, Susanne Bauer
- Summing up and planning next workshop (Oslo)
- Publications, e.g. special issue and possible outlets
- Funding opportunities for research and for curriculum development (from Norway and elsewhere)