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ANU Africa Network
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This website was established in 2013 by David Lucas, and renovated and relaunched in 2020 as part of a project to increase awareness of Africa and African studies in the ANU and the ACT, funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Another outcome of that project was a major research report, published in August 2021, African Studies at the Australian National University and in the Australian Capital Territory, analyzing the past, present and future of the study of Africa at the Australian National University and the wider Australian University sector.
The major innovation on this updated website is the creation of the ACT Africa Expert Directory which lists experts on Africa from institutions around the ACT, primarily the ANU. We will continue to curate this list, offering a key resource for media, government and non-government organizations seeking expert facts and opinions on Africa. Individuals can request to be added to the list by contacting the website managers.
Another notable addition is the expanded directory of PhD theses on Africa produced in the territory’s universities, a solid measure of the vitality of the study of Africa in the city of Canberra.
Reviewing these directories, it is revealing to note that the vast majority of research on Africa is produced by disciplinary experts (environmental scientists, economists, demographers, etc.) rather than area studies experts. This means that the study of Africa is woven into the fabric of the research culture of the ANU and the ACT’s other universities in ways that are not necessarily apparent.
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Understanding parent and child mental health outcomes and the potential of family-centred interventions in HIV epidemic settings in Africa
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ANU School of Demography Seminar
Date and Time: Friday 30 November 2018 – 3.00pm – 4.00 pm
Location: Jean Martin Room, Beryl Rawson Bldg #13, Ellery Crescent, ANU
Presenter: Dr Tamsen Rochat, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
Title: Understanding parent and child mental health outcomes and the potential of family-centred interventions in HIV epidemic settings in Africa
Abstract
Africa is at the centre of the global HIV epidemic, and South Africa is one of the most heavily affected countries with one of the largest HIV treatment programs in the world. The success of prevention and treatment in South Africa has led to large numbers of HIV-infected parents surviving to raise their HIV uninfected children, with up to 60% of children being raised by an HIV-infected primary caregiver, most frequently their mother. This raises concern about how HIV exposure may impact on children’s development and mental health. While vertical transmission in South Africa has been reduced to less than 3%, the incidence amongst adolescents has continued to rise, with emerging evidence suggesting that this generation of HIV-exposed and affected children are at greater risk of infection themselves in adolescence. To date, most interventions to reduce HIV incidence during adolescence in South Africa have demonstrated only marginal or no sustained effects.
This presentation focuses on parent and child mental health outcomes in one of largest longitudinal cohorts in Africa, with a particular focus on the critical transition from pre-adolescence into early adolescence; and introduces a family-centred intervention approach, which has been successful tested amongst HIV infected parents with pre-adolescent children. Improving our understanding of how adolescent risk emerges is critical for both prevention and intervention. The Siyakhula cohort is one of only a few cohorts globally that includes both HIV-exposed, affected children and HIV-unexposed comparison group. It is the only cohort in Africa that includes objective tests of children cognition, and measured both parent and child mental health.
Contact: Susan Cowan +61 2 6125 4273
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Ibrahim Abraham and Christianity and Social Class in South Africa
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Dr Ibrahim Abraham has recently joined the ANU.
From his personal website https://ibrahimabraham.net/ :
“I am an Australian sociologist of religion and contemporary culture, currently researching Christianity and social class in South Africa, based in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, where I am the Hans Mol Research Fellow in Religion and the Social Sciences.”
See also: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/abraham-i
His conference paper at the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) Conference given in Sydney on November 21st, 2018, was
“Spiritual and Class Insecurity in the South African Fiction of Niq Mhlongo”
See https://afsaap.org.au/conference/2018-2/ for his Abstract.
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MOVING TOWARDS A SINGLE CURRENCY IN THE WEST AFRICAN MONETARY ZONE
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Speaker: Augustus Panton
Augustus is a PhD candidate (economics) at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. His PhD research is focused on the monetary policy implications of climate change and alternative climate policy regimes. Augustus has previously worked as an economist in the Research, Policy & Planning Department at the Central Bank of Liberia.Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: Fenner Seminar Room, Building 141, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Linnaeus Way (which is 200 metres from the Dickson Road/Daley Road roundabout).
Topic: MOVING TOWARDS A SINGLE CURRENCY IN THE WEST AFRICAN :MONETARY ZONE: DOES CLIMATE CHANGE MATTER FOR OPTIMAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC OUTCOMES?
Policy efforts are underway toward the creation of a single currency in Anglophone West Africa. This presentation will provide an overview of the key issues and challenges that must be considered in the design and implementation of monetary policy in the region and elsewhere (particularly in developing countries), with the unexplored interlinkage between monetary policy and climate change at the heart of the discussion. For a region that is highly susceptible to climate-induced environmental and macroeconomic disruptions, the ability of the proposed regional central bank to promote socio-economic development will crucially depend on having strong interlinkage between climate actions and the monetary policy framework.
Contact: https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/phd/augustus-panton