Dr Jasmine Gideon
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Jasmine Gideon is Professor of Global Health and Development with a specific interest in the gendered political economy of health in Latin America and issues around health and migration. She has a PhD and an MSc in Development Studies and a BA (Hons) in History. Prior to working at Birkbeck she worked at the University of Manchester and the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds. She has also carried out consultancies for a range of development institutions including Pan American Health Organisation, Global Health 5050 and UN Women.
She is currently the Co-Investigator of an Academy of Medical Science funded network 'Understanding the inequality impacts of health PPPs in Middle Income Countries' with colleagues from Peru, Argentina, Brazil, India and Kenya. She has also led an ESRC GCRF network - Equalities in Public Private Partnerships (EQUIPPS) and was the Co-Investigator on a GCRF funded network Andean Network for Venezuelan Migrants.
She was previously the co-ordinating editor of the Bulletin for Latin American Research and is now the co-editor of the Agenda book series 'Women's Work'.
Office hours
Students should contact me directly for tutorials: j.gideon@bbk.ac.uk
Qualifications
- PhD Development Studies , University of Manchester
- MA (Econ) Development Studies , University of Manchester
- BA (Hons) History , University of Leeds
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research overview
My research is centered on the gendered political economy of health and is specifically focused on three central elements: gender and health, globalization and development and transnational migration and health.
My work examines how Latin American health systems are gendered structures, containing embedded norms and practices that shape service provision and delivery. At the same time I am interested in the role of households as both consumers and producers of health services. I am particularly interested in using this analytical framework to explore the relationship between health and work in the context of globalisation.
I am also interested in issues around transnational migration and health and have recently conducted research exploring the health seeking strategies of Latin American migrants in London. I am currently building on this work to look at questions of health and well-being among Chilean exiles, both within the UK and those who have returned to Chile.
I have recently produced a film based on my work with Chilean exiles in London - Crafting Residence: The art of Chilean political prisoners.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I am interested in supervising in the areas of:
Gender, health and social policy
Latin American social development
Gender and economic rights
Migration and health
Gender and care
Current students- Jennifer Williams (2023-)Sexuality, relationships and identities of adolescent girls with disabilities
- Lena Gempke (2023-) Everyday practices of indebtedness: a feminist political economy study of South Africa
- María José Romero Duarte (2018-date) Re-examining public-private partnerships (PPPs) – An analysis of health and education PPPs.
Previous students
- Olivia Engle (2019 - 2024) Abortion at home: the potential of medication abortion to address geographic and spatial barriers to abortion care
- Janice Lazarus (2017- 2024) 'Pregnancy and Abortion among unmarried women in India'
- Jahan Foster (PhD awarded 2022) ‘Understanding the social practices and experiences of Latin American transnational families in London’
- Michael Boampong (PhD awarded 2020) ‘The Impact of Austerity on Ghanaian Transnational Families’
Gabriela Alvarez Minte (2012-2017) ‘Conservative Backlashes in Latin America; The Case of Chile’. - Lorena Fuentes (2012-2016) ‘Framing Femicide: Violence, Political Economy and the Guatemalan Women’s Movement’.
- Neha Kagal (2012- 2017) ‘Gender, Labour and Masculinities: The Impact of Informal Economy Women Workers Membership to Labour Organizations on Intra-household Gender Relations and Masculinities’.
- Ezi Beedi (2011-2015) ‘Contributory pensions in Nigeria: A case for Public School Teachers in Bayelsa State’.
- Charlotte Nussey (2011-2019) ‘Gender, Violence and Adult Education in post-Apartheid South Africa’.
- Marianna Leite (2010-2013) ‘From Rhetoric to Reality in Improving Maternal Health Outcomes: An Analysis of Women’s Rights Activism in Brazil’.
- Ivan Darías ‘Imagining Cuba in London: Identity Construction in the Cuban Diaspora’ (PhD awarded 2011).
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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OLIVIA ENGLE
Teaching
I convene the MSc Development Studies and teach the following postgraduate modules:- Development Studies: Theoretical Approaches
- Development, Aid and Power
- Gender and Development (this module is not running in 2020-21)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Gideon, Jasmine and Gianella, C. and Salas, M. and Bayliss, K. and De Falco, R. and Romero, M.J. and Iguñiz, R. (2024) A “common sense” response to health inequalities in Peru? Public Private Partnerships in health and the implications for the right to health and economic inequality.. Journal of Human Rights Practice ISSN 1757-9619.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Asthana, S. and Bisht, R. (2024) Health systems in India: Analysing the barriers to inclusive health leadership through a gender lens. British Medical Journal 386 (e07835), ISSN 1759-2151.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2024) Crafting arts-based stories of exile, resistance and trauma among Chileans in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies ISSN 1369-183X.
- Samuels, F. and Molyneux, M. and Gideon, Jasmine (2023) Cuban youth: changing attitudes towards sexual and reproductive health. Progress in Development Studies ISSN 1464-9934.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Engle, Olivia (2022) Attitudes to adolescent pregnancy among families in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador: insights from a longitudinal study. Culture, Health and Sexuality ISSN 1369-1058 print.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2022) Journeys to health: the case of Chilean exiles in the UK. Journal of Refugee Studies 35 (3), pp. 1089-1106. ISSN 0951-6328.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Ramm, A. and Alvarez Minte, Gabriela and de la Cruz Pincetti, C. (2022) Protecting, empowering or penalizing motherhood? The contradictory treatment of women in Chilean social policies. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 29 (1), pp. 118-140. ISSN 1072-4745.
- Gianella, C. and Gideon, Jasmine and Romero, M.J. (2021) What does COVID-19 tell us about the Peruvian health system?. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 42 (1-2), pp. 55-67. ISSN ISSN: 2158-9100.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Gianella, C. and Iguiñiz-Romero, R. and Romero, M.J. (2020) Good health indicators are not enough: lessons from COVID-19 in Peru. Health and Human Rights Journal 22 (2), pp. 317-320. ISSN 2150-4113.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2018) Gendering activism, exile and wellbeing: Chilean exiles in the UK. Gender, Place and Culture 25 (2), pp. 228-247. ISSN 0966-369X.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Hunter, B.M. and Murray, S.F. (2017) Public-private partnerships in sexual and reproductive healthcare provision: establishing a gender analysis. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 33 (2), pp. 166-180. ISSN 2169-9763.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Unterhalter, E. (2017) Exploring Public Private Partnerships in health and education: a critique. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 33 (2), pp. 136-141. ISSN 2169-9763.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Porter, Fenella (2016) Challenging gendered inequalities in global health: dilemmas for NGOs. Development and Change 47 (4), pp. 782-797. ISSN 0012-155X.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Porter, F. (2016) Unpacking ‘women’s health’ in the context of PPPs: a return to instrumentalism in development policy and practice?. Global Social Policy 16 (1), pp. 68-85. ISSN 1468-0181.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Minte, G.A. and Leite, Marianna (2015) What is hindering progress? The marginalization of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Brazil and Chile. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 31 (3), pp. 255-270. ISSN 2169-9763.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2012) Engendering the health agenda? Reflections on the Chilean case, 2000-2010. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 19 (3), pp. 333-360. ISSN 1072-4745.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2011) Exploring migrants' health seeking strategies: the case of Latin American migrants in London. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 7 (4), pp. 197-208. ISSN 1747-9894.
- Cornwall, A. and Gideon, Jasmine and Wilson, K. (2008) Introduction: reclaiming feminism: gender and neoliberalism. IDS Bulletin 39 (6), pp. 1-9. ISSN 0265-5012.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2008) Counting the cost of privatised provision: women, rights and neoliberal health reforms in Chile. IDS Bulletin 39 (6), pp. 75-82. ISSN 0265-5012.
- Barrientos, A. and Gideon, Jasmine and Molyneux, M. (2008) New developments in Latin America's social policy. Development and Change 39 (5), pp. 759-774. ISSN 0012-155x.
- Dannreuther, C. and Gideon, Jasmine (2008) Entitled to health? social protection in Chile's Plan AUGE. Development and Change 39 (5), pp. 845-864. ISSN 0012-155X.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2008) Counting the cost of privatised provision: women, rights and neo-liberal health reforms in Chile. IDS Bulletin 39 (6), pp. 75-82. ISSN 0265-5012.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2006) Accessing economic and social rights under neoliberalism: gender and rights in Chile. Third World Quarterly 27 (7), pp. 1269-1283. ISSN 0143-6597.
Book
- Gideon, Jasmine and Unterhalter, E., eds. (2020) Critical reflections on Public Private Partnerships. Routledge. ISBN 9780367235666.
- Ramm, A. and Gideon, Jasmine, eds. (2020) Motherhood, social policies and women's activism in Latin America. Studies of the Americas. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030214012.
- Gideon, Jasmine, ed. (2016) Handbook on gender and health. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781784710859.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2014) Gender, globalization, and health in a Latin American context. Studies of The Americas. New York, U.S.: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230103559.
- Thomas, F. and Gideon, Jasmine, eds. (2013) Migration, health and inequality. London, UK: Zed Books. ISBN 9781780321240.
Book Review
- Gideon, Jasmine (2013) Book Review: "Care Work and Class: Domestic Workers' Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America".
Book Section
- Gideon, Jasmine (2023) Financing development through PPPs: what does this mean for inequalities. In: Tribe, M. and Kararach, G. (eds.) The Political Economy of Global Manufacturing, Business and Finance. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 243-265. ISBN 9783031258312.
- Gideon, Jasmine and Untherhalter, E. (2020) Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships: an introduction. In: Gideon, Jasmine and Untherhalter, E. (eds.) Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367235666. (In Press)
- Romero, M.J. and Gideon, Jasmine (2020) Health PPPs in Latin America: a review. In: Gideon, Jasmine and Unterhalter, E. (eds.) Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships. Routledge. ISBN 9780429280450.
- Gideon, Jasmine (2013) Access versus entitlements: the health seeking for Latin American migrants in London. In: Thomas, F. and Gideon, Jasmine (eds.) Migration, Health and Inequality. London, UK: Zed Books. ISBN 9781780321240.
- Thomas, F. and Gideon, Jasmine (2013) Introduction. In: Thomas, F. and Gideon, Jasmine (eds.) Migration, Health and Inequality. London, UK: Zed Books. ISBN 9781780321240.
Monograph
- Romero, M.J. and Gideon, Jasmine Gideon, Jasmine and Unterhalter, E., eds. (2020) Una revision de las app en salud en America Latina. Editado por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. ISBN 9780429280450.
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Business and community
Business and community
Outreach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_OMDxPconA
Watch my short film 'Crafting Resistance: the art of Chilean Political Prisoners'
Bayliss, K. and Gideon, J. (2020) ‘The privatisation and financialisation of social care’, paper prepared for the Women’s Budget Group Commission on a Gender Equal Economy (https://wbg.org.uk/commission/inputs-to-the-commission/policy-papers-public-services/)
https://flickread.com/edition/html/index.php?pdf=5fda193b33f53#32
Blog posts on Latin America and the outbreak of Covid-19: a chronicle of multiple crises (II)Spanish: https:https://www.eurodad.org/covid19_latin_america_2//www.eurodad.org/covid19_america_latina_2
https://www.eurodad.org/covid19_america_latina_2https://www.eurodad.org/covid19_america_latina_2
Blog posts on Latin America and the outbreak of Covid-19: a chronicle of multiple crises (I)https://www.eurodad.org/covid19_america_latina_1https://www.eurodad.org/covid19_latin_america_1
Alvarez Minte, G., Ramm, A. and Gideon, J. (2021) 'Maternidad y políticas públicas en Chile en el contexto del COVID-19', Revista SAAP (ISSN 1666-7883) Vol. 15, Nº 2, noviembre 2021, 363-385: https://revista.saap.org.ar/contenido/revista-v15-n2/rsaap.15.2.pdf
Gianella, C., Gideon, J. and Romero, M. J. (2021) 'How Peru became the country with the highest COVID death rate in the world' The Conversation, 16 November 2021: https://theconversation.com/how-peru-became-the-country-with-the-highest-covid-death-rate-in-the-world-169779