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Colleagues,
please bring this important and exciting conference to the attention of anyone who may be interested. To be held at the University of Sussex Conference Centre, nr Brighton, UK on 19 July 2013, 9:30am - 6:30pm.
For full details of the programme and registration etc., see:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/globalhealthpolicy/events/forthcomingevents/annualconf2013
Over the last 15 years, widening access to life-saving medicines around the world has been a crucial - if not defining - aspect of global health policy. What started with a historic movement to make anti-retroviral therapy (ARVs) available to millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in low-income countries, has rapidly evolved into a much broader model for improving health globally. However, a difficult international economic environment, profound changes in the global pharmaceutical sector, and a number of recent controversies have cast doubt over the future sustainability of this model for addressing global health inequalities.
Key questionsfor the conference include:
-What are the key successes of this pharmaceutical model of global health in reducing global health inequalities over the past decade?
-What challenges have emerged about the efficacy and sustainability of rolling out medical treatments in low-income countries?
-What are the impacts of these global health initiatives on local communities?
-And what are the new business models that could deliver innovative medicines for global health in the future?
This interdisciplinary conference brings together experts from the fields of policy, research, the pharmaceutical industry, foundations, journalism, and non-governmental organisations in order to identify new ways of adapting global health policy to these compounding challenges. There is also the opportunity to tailor the conference to your own interests by choosing from a range of concurrent panel sessions in the afternoon followed by further discussion during a networking reception.
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Dr Alex Faulkner
Reader in Global Health Policy
Arts C 306
School of Global Studies
University of Sussex
tel. campus extn 3159; other +44 (0)7980 374154; +44 (0)1273 473421
email [log in to unmask]
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