• • • The BPH-PHARes team is collaborating with its partners at the Faculty of Anthropology at the University of Bordeaux on a series of lectures at the crossroads of anthropology and public health.

    • Five sessions to explore the mutual contributions of these two disciplines are planned between November 2025 and May 2026 at the Carreire health campus and the Victoire humanities and social sciences campus.

       

 

 

Anthropology and Public Health : which common future ?

First session Mental Health : 20 November 2025 in the Louis amphi at ISPED

 

Steering committee : Fiona Gedeon Achi, Carole Dufouil, Isabelle Gobatto, Andja Srebro
avec l’appui de Marie Manganelli, Nidhi Priya et Elyssa Sillam-Hyjazi

 

 

 

This series of conference, in English, offers a different scheme from tradi<onal seminars, with a deliberately provocative double focus:

 

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How can anthropology be useful to the practice of public health?

Conversely, how can public health be useful to the prac<ce of anthropology focused on health, in its broadest sense?

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Exchanges between anthropologists and public health professionals need to be strengthened in order to find common ground between objectives and means, imagination and action. This  requires a capacity for listening – but also for translation – on both sides, which this seminar aims to encourage.

 

Through five thematic lectures – structured around a dialogue between an anthropologist and a public health researcher – this seminar aims to foster collective reflection, by asking the following quetions:

– What does it mean to be useful – to public health for anthropology, and to anthropology for public health?

– How can anthropological research guide the prac<ce to healthcare professionals?

– Conversely, how can anthropologists integrate the concerns of public health professionals to shape their research, and make their work accessible, relevant and heard?

– In this dynamic process of interac<on, which defini<on and objec<ves of “public health”  emerge?

 

This conference series is jointly organized by the Institute of Public Health and the University ofBordeaux’s Faculty of Anthropology.

 

Save the dates:

– Thursday, November 20th 2025: Campus Carreire, Bordeaux.
Topic: Mental Health

Speakers: Tonya Tartour (Sociologist, Centre Émile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux) &
Cédric Galéra (Psychiatrist, HEALTHY Team, Bordeaux Population Health).

– Thursday, January 15th 2025: Campus Victoire, Bordeaux.
Topic: Discrimination

Speakers: Mounia El Kotni (Anthropologist, Cermes3) & Stéphanie Vandetorren (Researcher, Santé Publique France, PHARes Team, Bordeaux Popula<on Health).

– Thursday, February 26th 2025: Campus Carreire, Bordeaux.
Topic: Public policies and evidence-based data

Speakers: Marlee Tichenor (Anthropologist, University of Edinburgh) & Geneviève Chêne (Researcher, PHARes Team, Bordeaux Popula<on Health).

– Thursday, March 19th 2025: Campus Victoire, Bordeaux.
Topic: Access to Healthcare and inequalities

Speakers: Fiona Gedeon-Achi (Anthropologist, PHARes Team) & Florence Saillour (Public Health Specialist, Bordeaux University Hospital, PHARes Team, Bordeaux Population Health).
– Monday, May 11th 2025: Campus Carreire, Bordeaux.

Topic: Aging
Speakers: AnneWe Leibing (Anthropologist, University of Montreal) & Carole Dufouil  (Researcher, PHARes Team, Bordeaux Population Health).

 

 

 

The steering Committee Fiona Gedeon Achi, Carole Dufouil, Isabelle Gobatto, Andja Srebro, with the support of Marie Manganelli, Nidhi Priya et Elyssa Sillam-Hyjazi is waiting for you there