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Professor Mazeda Hossain's Inaugural Lecture

Supporting Survivors: Insights from a Career Researching Violence Against Women and Health amongst Conflict-Affected Populations

Mazeda Hossain
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In this talk, Professor Hossain will share reflections on her career as a social epidemiologist engaged in research on gender-based violence and health amongst conflict-affected populations. She will discuss some of her methodological approaches to conduct ethical and rigorous applied research in challenging settings and amongst traumatised populations. She will also discuss how she uses research as a tool to develop programmes and policies which support survivors’ health and wellbeing, aiming to contribute to longer-term peace and societal wellbeing in conflict-affected settings.

  • From: Wednesday 17 January 2024, 5.30 pm
  • To: Wednesday 17 January 2024, 7.30 pm
  • Registration: 5.30 pm
  • Location: Lecture Theatre 4, Newton building, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
  • Booking deadline: Wednesday 17 January 2024, 3.30 pm
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As mass displacement and armed conflict continue to disproportionately impact fragile and conflict-affected settings, it is increasingly evident that peace and security are inextricably tied to health and well-being. For nations to transition to peace, addressing the poor health and protection of their population is crucial to ensuring the effectiveness of peacebuilding and conflict-prevention efforts. The health impacts of conflict include death, the emergence of non-communicable diseases (i.e., mental health disorders), injury, self-harm, and an unmet need for contraception. Despite these significant health impacts, we still have limited evidence on the longer-term health and societal impacts among those who survive the conflict violence. Notably absent from these discussions is the impact of violence on women and girls, who are often viewed only as survivors of conflict-related sexual violence rather than survivors of multiple forms of violence both from the conflict and from their families and communities.

Professor Hossain will share reflections on her career as a social epidemiologist engaged in research on gender-based violence and health amongst conflict-affected populations. She will discuss some of her methodological approaches to conduct ethical and rigorous applied research in challenging settings and amongst traumatised populations. She will also discuss how she uses research as a tool to develop programmes and policies which support survivors’ health and wellbeing, aiming to contribute to longer-term peace and societal wellbeing in conflict-affected settings.

Biography

Professor Mazeda Hossain is the Director of the Eastern Africa Centre at Nottingham Trent University and was appointed as Professor of Global Health in October 2022. She is a social epidemiologist who leads transdisciplinary research with a focus on gender, violence and health. She specialises in measurement and evaluation.


She has led a range of research projects in Africa, UK and the EU using mixed methods, including randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, cross-sectional surveys (community and household surveys), realist evaluations, social network analysis studies, impact and process evaluations, monitoring and evaluation, and intervention design and evaluation. She has also conducted research on coordination, evaluation, and evidence use for the humanitarian and health sectors.


She currently leads a global research programme on methodological innovations for researching conflict, violence, and health, including the development of a new multi-dimensional global index on societal wellbeing. Her work aims to inform evidence-based decision-making which shape policies and programmes for individuals living in complex settings.


She holds an MSc in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research and a PhD in Social Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Between 2005-2019, she was based in the Gender, Violence and Health Centre at LSHTM and between 2019-2022 she was based in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics (LSE). She also holds an honorary post at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) where she contributed to the Lancet-SIGHT Commission on peaceful societies through health and gender equality.

Programme

5.30 pmRegistration and welcome refreshments
6 pmWelcome talk
6.05 pmLecture begins
6.50 pmClose and thanks by Executive Dean
7 pmDrinks reception
7.30 pmClose

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Lecture Theatre 4, Newton building

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Goldsmith Street
 Nottingham
 NG1 4BU

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