Dans le cadre d'un processus de recrutement pour un poste de professeur(e) adjoint(e) en santé mondiale, le Département de médecine sociale et préventive organisera des présentations publiques des candidat(e)s.

Dans ce cadre, le DMSP recevra le Dre Ben Brisbois le mercredi 8 février prochain.

Mercredi 8 février, de 11h45 à 12h45

Local U-546, campus 7077 avenue du Parc 

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Environmental injustice in Ecuador’s banana industry: A political ecology of global health approach

Pesticide exposures experienced by workers, small farmers and communities linked to banana production in Ecuador illustrate barriers to the achievement of health equity posed by colonial legacies and related inequitable structures. This talk will explore the political economic and environmental dynamics generating pesticide exposures, and how such environmental injustice is experienced by affected individuals. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in southwestern Ecuador, this analysis reveals implications for how global health research should be practiced and translated into policy and social change in the face of entrenched power relations.

À propos du présentateur :

Dr Ben Brisbois is a transdisciplinary researcher, educator and advocate on global health issues. Areas of focus include health-environment interactions; food systems and health; health effects of resource extraction; and the social production of scientific knowledge in relation to disciplinary, political economic and material factors. He employs participatory and mixed-methods approaches to engage with communities, collaborators and policy processes in Ecuador, Canada and elsewhere in the Americas.