Dear All,

I would like to invite you to the Launch Conference for the UCL Centre for 
Philosophy, Justice and Health. Information is below. We look forward to 
seeing you there. (Apologies for cross-postings).

Best wishes,
Shepley Orr 


Conference: Justice and the Social Determinants of Health
   
Launch Conference for the UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health



Co-sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Ethics of Risk 
Project, the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, and 
Goodenough College


8th and 9th December 2008
    
   December 8th Goodenough College

9.30 Welcome and Registration

10.00 Professor Sir Michael Marmot, MRC Research Professor of Epidemiology 
and Public Health, UCL

"Health in an unequal world: basis for action"


11.15 Richard Wilkinson, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Nottingham 
University

"The challenge of inequality"

12.30 Lunch


1.30 Jonathan Wolff, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Centre for 
Philosophy, Justice and Health, UCL

"Disadvantage, risk, and the social determinants of health"


2.45 Gopal Sreenivasan, Crown Professor of Ethics, Duke University

"Ethics and epidemiology: relatives versus absolutes"

4.00 Tea


4.15 Dan Hausman, Herbert A. Simon Professor of Philosophy, University of 
Wisconsin-Madison 


"Health disparities and injustices"


5.30 Reception



December 9th (Venue to be confirmed)

10.00 Further discussion of Dan Hausman’s paper

11.30 Further discussion of Gopal Sreenivasan’s paper

12.45 Lunch

2.00 James Wilson, Lecturer in Philosophy and Health UCL

"Not So Special After All? Daniels and the Social Determinants of Health"

3.30 Sridhar Venkatapuram, ESRC-DFID Research Fellow, Epidemiology UCL

"A Bird's Eye View"


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