In June Innovia signed a collaboration agreement with the University of Otavalo, in Ecuador. Innovia will assist the University in developing a new Master’s programme in the field of health management, with specializations in disability and in intercultural health. There’ll be more information about this agreement in the next issue of the Innovia Newsletter (number 10), that will appear in September 2009.

The Reader on Disability and Society, commissioned by the Thai Programme for Health Promotion for People with Disabilities, and edited by Renu Addlakha, Stuart Blume, Patrick Devlieger, Osamu Nagase and Myriam Winance on behalf of Innovia, is now available.

Published by Orient Blackswan in India (www.orientlongman.com ) it costs 695 Indian rupees and has ISBN number 978 81 250 3686 9

The book’s cover, including the list of contributors, can be viewed here disabilities and society

The annotated bibliography on leprosy and stigma, compiled by Jo Weaver at Emory University in the USA has now been completed. A link to it will follow soon. Building on the the results of this work, the Lepra Stichting (Netherlands Leprosy Relief) has provided funding for a further bibliographical study of stigma. This work will be carried out by Beatriz Miranda, a sociologist currently at the University of Leeds in the UK. There will  be more information about this project in Innovia Newsletter number 11.