
Marine Al DahdahFrench National Centre for Scientific Research | CNRS · Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux - Cems
Marine Al Dahdah
PhD in Sociology
Institut Français de Pondichery - UMIFRE 21
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Introduction
Sociologist (PhD), CNRS researcher at CEMS (EHESS-CNRS-INSERM).
Former IFRIS post-doctoral fellow at Cermes3 ; former doctoral fellow from the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (ANRS).
I'm currently working on "Digital Health in the Global South". My PhD dissertation was on "Mobile Health in Ghana and India".
Additional affiliations
October 2021 - present
Institut Français de Pondichéry
Position
- Researcher
September 2017 - present
January 2017 - September 2017
Education
November 2013 - January 2017
September 2004 - November 2005
Publications
Publications (59)
Information and communication technologies are increasingly used for development in the Global South, and mHealth (health assisted by mobile technologies) plays key role. This paper analyzes the particular relationship to science that characterizes a global maternal mHealth program deployed in Ghana and India. Using science and technology studies (...
With more than 7 billion mobile connections in 2017, mobile phones have become the most widespread communication technology worldwide. From appointment reminders to mobile glucometers, healthcare systems are increasingly using mobile technologies to improve healthcare. These programmes, called ‘mHealth’, contribute to the present shift in internati...
Les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) jouent aujourd’hui un rôle de plus en plus central dans les programmes de développement. En 2015, l’organe des Nations Unies chargé des questions de développement et du commerce international, la CNUCED, a rendu public son rapport sur le « développement numérique » et demandé de positio...
The lockdown in reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic will have terrible consequences on an informal economy that relies first and foremost on movements and will deepen the socioeconomic inequalities that divide the country. The risk of people dying from hunger is extremely high and the death toll worsened by poor health infrastructures.
https://booksa...
Avec la généralisation du téléphone portable et de l’Internet mobile, la technologie numérique fait l’objet d’un regain d’intérêt sur le continent africain. Un nombre croissant d’acteurs internationaux propose d’utiliser le téléphone portable comme instrument central pour régler des questions de santé publique en Afrique. S’appuyant sur l’analyse d...
With the widespread use of mobile phones, digital technology is gaining renewed interest in Africa. A growing number of international actors are proposing to use mobile phones as central tools for addressing health issues on the continent, specifically to ensure ‘health for all’. Based on the analysis of the ‘health wallet’ of the world most famous...
With their widespread use in the Global South, mobile phones are attracting growing interest from international aid actors and local authorities alike, who are positioning mobile technology as a growth driver and a solution to many social problems. Initiated by giants of the digital industry, these policies are reviving old questions about technolo...
In India, the use of digital technologies has become the key to the everyday operation of the welfare state in terms of accessing essential and life-sustaining entitlements. In this context, our article explores the genesis of India's digital turn in healthcare and maps the characteristics of a ‘digital health for all’ policy, based on empirical an...
La pandémie de Covid-19 constitue un prisme inédit pour l’étude de la production de connaissances face à une maladie globale « inconnue mais connaissable », en particulier dans les contextes d’intervention privilégiés de la « santé globale », les pays dits « des Suds ». Cet article se concentre sur les réponses de quinze pays africains et asiatique...
Through the study of ‘Motech’—a global mHealth programme on maternal health implemented in Ghana and India—this chapter offers the first analysis of the use of mobile phones as a tool in such programmes. This chapter focuses on the particular role of community health workers in establishing this programme. It questions the competing strategies to e...
With the widespread use of mobile phones in the Global South, digital tools are attracting growing interest from international aid actors as well as local governments – positioning digital technology as an essential driver of economic growth and an obvious solution to many social problems. Initiated by multiple actors from the digital industry, the...
Dans ce numéro, la RAC relaie une lettre ouverte d’un groupe d’universitaires et publie la traduction de l’article de l’un d’entre eux, Domenico Fiormonte, sur les conséquences de l’utilisation des plateformes numériques propriétaires dans l’enseignement à distance. Ce collectif appelle à une discussion sur l’avenir de l’éducation et la création d’...
The ‘digital turn’ that took place in development policies since the early 2000s is characterized by the growing use of digital devices as development and governance tools, and by the growing use of large sets of data that goes hand in hand with it. This article points to three major changes that accompany this evolution. The first is the diversifi...
This special issue emerges out of the work of the ‘Digital Studies Group’, a reading-and-writing group founded at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in 2015. The papers have been discussed in several occasions, in New Delhi (2017), Paris (2017) and Sydney (2019). Four of them have benefited in particular from a 2...
Tracing apps to prevent the spread of Covid-19 have been implemented in various Asian countries, and Europe is also considering their use. But is the data privacy risk worth taking? This essay proposes an overview of such technologies and questions their efficiency.
https://booksandideas.net/Tracing-Apps-to-Fight-Covid-19.html
En Inde, le confinement aura des conséquences terribles sur une économie informelle qui repose sur la mobilité, et risque d’aggraver les profondes inégalités qui divisent le pays. Les ravages de la faim et la faiblesse des infrastructures de santé menacent d’alourdir le bilan mortel du virus.
La vie des idées
https://laviedesidees.fr/L-Inde-face-a...
In less than ten years, India has launched colossal biometric databases. One among them is related to the first ‘free’ health coverage scheme offered by the government of India: the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY). Based on a public–private partnership between government and private companies, RSBY national scheme was launched in 2008, as a fi...
Cet article étudie l’apparition de la notion d’empowerment comme catégorie du développement et son actualisation récente dans les programmes de développement qui utilisent le téléphone portable comme levier central d’action. Parmi les nombreux programmes de mDéveloppement qui émergent dans les Suds, cet article s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux...
Full video of the presentation is online :
https://youtu.be/QMUSawnGTuU
With the widespread use of mobile phones in the Global South, digital tools are attracting growing interest from international aid actors as well as local governments ; positioning digital technology as an essential driver of economic growth and an obvious solution to many so...
Le mobile, et plus généralement les infrastructures numériques, sont désormais mis en avant comme un élément fondamental de réponse aux besoins de santé au Nord, mais aussi de plus en plus au Sud où la digitalisation est placée au centre des initiatives de couverture « universelle », c’est-à-dire d’accès sans frais à des interventions prenant pour...
La lutte contre les inégalités occupe aujourd’hui le devant de la scène internationale. Mais la lumière projetée sur leurs dimensions économiques laisse souvent dans l’ombre les conditions sociales de leur production, les modalités de leur traitement, ou encore les transformations sociales qu’elles portent en elles. Comment et par qui sont définis...
Based upon research in the state of Bihar, India, this article argues that informal access to medicines in Northern India is a core element of the government of healthcare. Informal providers such as unlicensed village doctors and unlicensed drug sellers play a major role in access to medicines in Bihar, in the particular context of the dismantling...
Health programmes that are using mobile phones to improve maternal health in rural India are examined. Presented by its promoters as a universal, accessible and “smart” empowering technology, how mobile devices transform gender inequalities on the ground is analysed. By using empirical data collected on a global mHealth programme deployed in Bihar,...
Régulations, Marchés, Santé : interroger les enjeux actuels du médicament en Afrique, Ouidah, BEN, 26-/03/2018 - 29/03/2018
This paper examines ‘mobile health’ or ‘mHealth’ programs that are using mobile phones to improve maternal health in the developing world. Whereas its implementers present mobile health as a neutral, universal, accessible and ‘smart’ empowering technology for women, we will question this empowering effect and analyze how the device transforms gende...
Le téléphone portable constitue la technologie de communication la plus utilisée dans le monde. Au cours des cinq dernières années, de nombreux acteurs de la santé et des télécoms ont loué les avantages potentiels de la mSanté (l'utilisation des téléphones mobiles pour la santé) et lancé partout quantité de projets. Ainsi, la mSanté serait une tech...
mHealth programs that use mobile phones to improve health in the developing world are part of a new model of development called « digital development ». This brand new model associates development with digital technologies; it assumes that digital technologies and its markets will bring social progress and economic growth to the Global South. Throu...
Health programs that are using mobile phones to improve maternal health in the Global South make visible a particular entanglement of gender and technologies. Launched in June 2013 in Bihar (India), the mobile vocal messaging service on maternal health called “Kilkari” is entirely dedicated to men. Offering a maternal health information service to...
With more than seven billion users in 2017, mobile phones have become the most widespread communication technology worldwide. From appointment reminders by SMS to mobile glucometers, healthcare systems are increasingly using mobile technologies. However, the use of mobile technologies for health called “mHealth” or “mobile health” has not been well...
Dès son apparition après la seconde guerre mondiale, l'aide au développement était envisagée en terme d'assistance technique et de modernisation des pays moins avancés. Réseaux d'électrification, systèmes hydrauliques, pompes, machines industriels, matériel agricole, véhicules et routes, ont constitué et constituent toujours des outils et des moyen...
En 2015, avec 7 milliards d'usagers, le téléphone portable devient la technologie de communication la plus utilisée dans le monde. Du rappel de rendez-vous par SMS au glucomètre mobile, les systèmes de santé y recourent de manière croissante. Les programmes qui utilisent le téléphone portable pour améliorer la santé constituent un nouveau secteur d...
This article analyses how the dynamics of globalisation affect the development of a transnational controversy. It examines three linked conflicts: protests against the Anti-Counterfeit Act in Kenya, demonstrations against the India-European Union free trade agreement in India, social movements against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)...
J’étudie des dispositifs de santé par téléphone portable (mSanté) déployés dans les pays en développement pour améliorer la santé maternelle.Dans le cadre de ces programmes de santé maternelle, la mSanté est présentée par ses promoteurs comme une technologie neutre et accessible qui permettrait de compenser des inégalités de santé et de genre grâce...
As soon as you start working on development programs that are targeting women, "gender" becomes a pervasive and inescapable term. If you look into it from a post-colonial feminist point of view or from the international development agencies perspective, "gender" holds very different meanings that may be controversial. Development programs that are...
The recent multiplication of mHealth worldwide illustrates the overall trend towards the
globalization and technologization of biomedicine. The widespread idea that digital
technologies improve the quality of care, reduce health disparities and optimize health
systems takes shape in a diverse set of technical devices : eHealth, telemedicine, or
mHe...
En 2014, avec presque 7 milliards d’usagers « mobile », le téléphone portable devient la technologie d'information et de communication la plus utilisée dans le monde. Du « dossier patient » en ligne à l’envoi dématérialisé de données cliniques, les systèmes de santé du monde entier y recourent de manière croissante dans un contexte de réduction des...
Worldwide, concerted efforts are made to stimulate the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in health care. From online Personal Health Record (PHR), treatment and appointment reminders by SMS, to the e-mailing of confidential clinical data, healthcare systems are increasingly using technologies to provide better services with less...
Avec près de sept milliards d’usagers « mobile » en 2014, le téléphone portable devient la technologie d’information et de communication la plus utilisée dans le monde. Du « dossier patient » mobile à l’envoi dématérialisé de données cliniques par SMS, ces dispositifs se développent de manière croissante dans un contexte de réduction des ressources...
La circulation croissante de faux médicaments et de médicaments de mauvaise qualité soulève d'importants enjeux de santé publique. Mais la formulation actuelle du problème public des faux médicaments génère des controverses. Celles-ci offrent l'occasion d'interroger le rôle des médias dans la construction des problèmes de santé publique.Depuis la d...