Dissertation Research: Institutional Innovation in a Malaria Control Partnership in Tanzania: an ethnographic study

论文研究：坦桑尼亚疟疾控制伙伴关系的制度创新：一项人种学研究

• 批准号: 0350160
• 负责人: Rayna Rapp
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-15 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0350160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Institutional; Innovation; Malaria

This is a Science and Technology Studies dissertation improvement grant. The researcher will examine the effects of changing dominant health development paradigms on international collaboration and knowledge production in the context of an innovative malaria control program in Tanzania. Funds from the grant will support travel to Tanzania. Funds will also support some equipment purchases. The focus of the project is an emergent institutional form loosely referred to as partnership, which is proliferating and transforming the field of international health. The project will shed light on the global forces that shape the organization and practice of international health research and disease control in developing countries; the intended and unintended changes that such interventions elicit both on the ground and within the wider development apparatus in which these are embedded; and the production of authoritative knowledge that is central to and constitutive of (biomedical) science and development as universalizing endeavors. Through its focus on partnerships as an increasingly influential yet poorly described organizational form, this project will also offer theoretical and methodological contributions for studying local instantiations of globalizing cultural phenomena. The project will also shed light on a neglected but devastating disease that is a leading killer of (poor) children and pregnant women. Malaria is the leading cause of death and illness in large parts of sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known about the sociocultural meanings of this scourge or its social impact. By providing a situated perspective on how local people in Tanzania deal with malaria and respond to innovative institutional responses to control it, this project will also make important contributions to applied anthropology, health communication and most significantly, the development of culturally appropriate disease control programs.

这是一项科学技术研究论文改进补助金。 研究人员将在坦桑尼亚创新疟疾控制计划的背景下研究改变主导卫生发展范式对国际合作和知识生产的影响。赠款资金将用于支持前往坦桑尼亚的旅行。 资金还将支持一些设备采购。该项目的重点是一种被广泛称为伙伴关系的新兴制度形式，它正在扩散并改变国际卫生领域。该项目将揭示塑造发展中国家国际卫生研究和疾病控制组织和实践的全球力量；此类干预措施在实地以及在这些干预措施所嵌入的更广泛的发展机构内引起的有意和无意的变化；以及作为普遍化努力的（生物医学）科学和发展的核心和组成部分的权威知识的产生。通过将伙伴关系作为一种影响力越来越大但描述不充分的组织形式，该项目还将为研究全球化文化现象的当地实例提供理论和方法论贡献。 该项目还将揭示一种被忽视但具有毁灭性的疾病，这种疾病是（贫困）儿童和孕妇的主要杀手。疟疾是撒哈拉以南非洲大部分地区导致死亡和疾病的主要原因，但人们对这一祸害的社会文化意义或其社会影响知之甚少。通过提供关于坦桑尼亚当地人如何应对疟疾以及如何应对控制疟疾的创新机构应对措施的情境视角，该项目还将为应用人类学、健康传播以及最重要的是制定适合文化的疾病控制计划做出重要贡献。