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Social sciences research conducted on the topic of health aims to analyze the transformation of societies and of their environment, while examining the vulnerabilities and inequities these transformations may produce on the health and care of populations. These changes can be understood through the prism of family, of gender, of migration, and of the social environment. All these entries enable researchers to study population health and care given to individuals.Weakened by the economic crisis and the austerity plans in both developed and developing countries, and constrained by a growing social demand, developing countries find it more and more difficult to ensure their sovereign functions, such as the financing of quality health services. In addition, although they are supported by international bodies, new ways of funding health schemes, such as the universal health care and payments based on performance, often remain at the level of political discourse and/or remains poorly evaluated. Now, with a growing pressure on them, the poorest households have yet to fulfil their duty of mutual aid and support for sick people. Therefore, not only social inequalities in the field of health become a central focus of many research projects in social science research, but health and its societal challenges become also a transversal and multidisciplinary research object. This particular theme of health has then stimulated in the recent past the development of particularly fruitful research methods in social sciences. Access to these methods for young scholars was the purpose of the first edition of the Social Science Winter School in Pondicherry.Four international and multidisciplinary teams of experts had been constituted so as to propose to the public of students four sub-themes, with a focus on disciplinary and specific methodological aspects of research: Workshop 1: Universalisation of health care: questions, methods and assessments Workshop 2: Impact evaluation of public health policies and development programmes Workshop 3: Analysis of health controversies in a global context Workshop 4: Transformations in health and medicine. Conceptualisation and assessment in the social sciencesYou can find below the detailed programme and download it here Winter School Programme 2014.SUNDAY 7                PARTICIPANTS ARRIVALMONDAY 8             PLENARY SESSIONS9:30-10:00 Registration10:00-11:00         Formal Inaugural of the Social Sciences Winter SchoolWelcome address by Prof. T. S. Naidu, Director, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive PolicyPresentation by Dr. Thanuja Mummidi (Pondicherry University), Dr. Rémy Delage (CNRS) and Dr. Christophe Jalil Nordman (IRD)Felicitation by Dr. Pierre Grard, Director, French Institute of PondicherryVote of thanks by Dr. Audrey Richard-Ferroudji, Head, Dept of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry11:00 - 11:15 Tea/Coffee break11:15-12:00         Plenary talk 1V. Sujatha, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, New DelhiHealth and medicine in the 21st Century. New challenges for social science.12:00-12:45         Plenary talk 2Bertrand Lefebvre, University of Rouen, Faculty of Tropical Medicine of BangkokUniversalisation of health care in India: questions, methods and assessments.Lunch break14:00-14:45         Plenary talk 3Narayanan Lalitha, Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, AhmedabadRegulations Governing Private Healthcare in India. 14:45-15:30         Plenary talk 4Sumit Mazumdar, Fellow, Program coordinator at the Institute for Human Development, DelhiImpact Evaluation of Health Programmes: Insights from a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme on Maternity Benefits in India.15:30-15:45Tea/Coffee break15:45-16:30         Plenary talk 5Guy Attewell, Associated Researcher, French Institute of Pondicherry, PondicherryThinking through the road: fracture therapeutics and the traffic of bodies, technologies, passion.16:30-17:00Synthesis and presentation of the organisation of methodological workshopsTUESDAY 9              METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS9:00-12:30Workshop 1/ Universalisation of health care in India: questions, methods and assessmentsTraining team: Bertrand Lefebvre, Audrey Bochaton, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Venkat Raman, Olivier TelleWorkshop 2/ Impact evaluation of public health policies and development programmesTraining team: Christophe Jalil Nordman, Sumit Mazumdar, Flore Gubert, Camille Saint-MacaryWorkshop 3/ Analysis of health controversies in a global contextTraining team: Mathieu Quet, Vincent Duclos-Belanger, Marine Al Dahdah, Madhulika Banerjee, Lalitha NarayananWorkshop 4/ Transformations in health and medicine. Conceptualisation and assessment in the social sciencesTraining team: V. Sujatha, Madhu Nagla, Leena Abraham, Ritu Priya, V.R. MuraleedharanLunch break14:00-17:00ContinuedWEDNESDAY 10                METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS9:00-12:30ContinuedLunch break14:00-17:00ContinuedTHURSDAY 11                    METHODOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS9:00-12:30Continued                       Lunch break14:00-17:00Half-day break: debriefing for knowledge restitution supervised by the expertsFRIDAY 12                           FINAL DAY9:00-11:00Restitution by trainees (20 minutes per presentation)11:00-11:30Tea/Coffee break11:30-12:30         Valedictory Delivery of certificatesFeed back from resource persons, students and scientific committeeVote of thanksLunch break14:00-18:30Visit of Pondicherry18:30-22:00Cocktail dinner at IFP