South South Dialogue on Sustainability: Traditional Medicine in the Global South
Organizers:
Global University for Sustainability
People’s Health Movement
CCRD-CS, Lingnan University
Simultaneous Interpretation: Spanish and English
Webinar 1
Date: 15 November 2024 (Friday)
Time: Mexico: 7-9 am; Colombia: 8-10 am; Bolivia: 9-11 am; Brazil: 10-12 noon; South Africa:
3-5 pm; India: 6:30-8:30 pm; China: 9-11 pm
Moderator
Dr. Roman Vega, People’s Health Movement Global Coordinator. Colombia
Speakers
“Ancestral Wisdom for Health” From Abya Yala
Dr Vivian Camacho, People’s Health Movement, Latin America
Cultural Resilience of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Professor Sit Tsui, Southwest University, China
Short Biography
ROMÁN RAFAEL VEGA-ROMERO is a Medical Surgeon, master’s degree in health and social security administration and PhD in Health Administration and Policy. He was a full professor (currently retired) in the areas of Health Administration, Public Health, Social Policy and Social and Human Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Colombia. He has been principal investigator in several research projects and has published in various indexed and non-indexed journals. He was District Secretary of Health of Bogotá D.C., and a political and health activist. He is the current global coordinator of the People’s Health Movement – PHM.
Dra. Vivian Tatiana Camacho Hinojosa is the National Director of Ancestral Traditional Medicine within the Vice Ministry of Ancestral Traditional Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. She is also a High-Level Commissioner for “Alma Ata 40 years” in the Americas Region for the Pan American Health Organization. With extensive experience in the health sector, Dr. Camacho has worked as the Coordinator of Health for the Bolivia Peoples, represented the Andean Region in the Latin American Coordination within the World Movement for Peoples’ Health, and is a Quechua Midwife and Promoter of Respectful Birth and Ancestral Midwifery. As an Indigenous Communicator and member of the Red del Abya Yala de Comunicación Indígena, Dr. Camacho is committed to promoting ancestral knowledge of Indigenous peoples as a Specialist Surgeon in Interculturality and Health.
SIT Tsui (Jade Margaret) is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Rural Revitalization Strategy at Southwest University in Chongqing, China, and a Founding Member of Global University for Sustainability. She is co-editor of the Global University for Sustainability Book Series (Palgrave MacMillian) and the Global South Thought Book Series (Oriental Press, Beijing). She is also a co-program-coordinator of the South South Forum on Sustainability (2011-the present), and the South South Dialogue on Sustainability (2020-the present).
Webinar 2
Date: 16 November 2024 (Saturday)
Time: Mexico: 7-9 am; Colombia: 8-10 am; Bolivia: 9-11 am; Brazil: 10-12 noon; South Africa:
3-5 pm; India: 6:30-8:30 pm; China: 9-11 pm
Moderator:
Professor Li Jialin, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, USA
Speakers
Professor Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana
University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, India
Traditional medicine, biodiversity and health, public health, and sustainable development.
Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
how the suppression law of South Africa prevented the indigenous healers (Traditional Healers) from practising their vocation and how despite this they were resilient and persisted.
Emeritus Professor Gubela Mji
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Case study of indigenous healers of kwaBomvane and their struggle to work closer with the local hospitals and clinics.
Dr Rosemary Chimbala-Kalenga
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
On the Zambian situation of indigenous healers who never experienced a suppression law in their country
Short Biography:
Unnikrishnan Payyappallimana currently is a Professor at the University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU). He has an undergraduate degree in Ayurveda from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, and a master’s degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He holds a doctoral degree in International Development Studies from the Yokohama National University, Japan. Formerly he was with the United Nations University (UNU) – Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (IAS), Tokyo, and the International Institute for Global Health (IIGH), Kaula Lumpur in various capacities. His research interests are traditional medicine, biodiversity and health, public health, and sustainable development.
Hombakazi Mercy Nqandeka is a PhD candidate at Stellenbosch University under the Division of Disability and Rehabilitation. Her research focuses on the exploration of resilience from an Indigenous Healer perspective.
Gubela Mji, is an emeritus Professor in the Division of Disability and Rehabilitation Studies at Stellenbosch University. Her work focuses on transformation, disability, indigenous knowledge systems and rural health.
Dr Rosemary Chimbala-Kalenga is based at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. She is a democratic, pace setter, visionary and compassionate leader who leads HIV & AIDS research at local, regional, provincial and national levels.
Jialin Li is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. From 2019 to 2024, Li was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Monmouth College. She was born in Shanghai, China, and received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests are motherhood, public health, traditional medicine, and environmental justice.