Biomedical Research in Developing Countries - UNICRI

Research Center on Health, Cultures and Societies
CReCSS
The Research Center on Health, Culture and Societies was created as a for-years
contract at the Paul Cézanne University in 2004. The agreement has been renewed
until 2011.
The team, composed by professors, researchers, associated researchers and students,
investigates the connection between biology and culture focusing on health, diseases
and treatment, starting from an anthropological point of view (socio-cultural
epidemiology, social anthropology, bio-cultural anthropology, ethno-medicine,
human ecology, political anthropology of health, critical medical anthropology).
The research project aims also to respond to present issues on public health, related
to the conditions, social and cultural effects of different health systems, biomedicine
and its extension to new social and geographical areas, with the development of five
different research sections: Social Categorizations in Disease Treatment,
Anthropology of Medicines and Therapeutic Objects, The Dynamics of Health
Systems, Theories and Practices in Medical Anthropology.
It organizes also seminars and conferences such as “Séminaire Anthropologie de la
Santé: de la Participation à la Recherche à la ‘Co-Construction’ d’un objet
anthropologique – Les Rapport entre Chercheurs et Acteurs: le Cas des Champs de la
Santé et de la Diversité”, “Science Sociales et VIH-sida: Terrains, Méthodes,
Dialogues”; “Santé et Mobilités au Nord et au Sud: Circulations des Acteurs,
Evolutions des Pratiques”; “Anthropologie des Traitements Neotraditionnels du SIDA
et Médicaments Emergents en Afrique de l’Ouest”.
CReCSS is also the focal point for the Network on the Anthropology of Art in
Resource-Poor Settings (NAARPS) and for the “Institut de Formation en Ecologie
Humaine et Anthropologie –IFEHA”. IFEHA is an Institute of the Faculty of Political
Sciences, which assures post-graduate level training on Human Ecology and
Anthropology.
https://mmsh.univ-aix.fr/crecss/index.htm
Research Methodology Training Course
RMTC
In 2003, the Centre for Social Science and Medicine (SOSMED) in collaboration with
the Institute of Public Health, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, has offered a
three weeks training course on Research Methodology. The training course was
organized for people involved in health research and health related activities, in order
to strengthen the research capacity of participants and to promote a holistic
approach to health problems in developing countries. The main training areas of the
course were: research proposal development, integrated qualitative and quantitative
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