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The Institute of Health (University of Warwick) and the Institute for Medicine, Law and Bioethics (IMLAB) at Liverpool University would like to invite you to an E S R C seminar on
Global Health and Human Rights: Process
Thursday 15th November 2007
Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue,
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Programme
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9.00 - 10.00 Arrival, registration and breakfast
10.00 - 10.15 Opening remarks: Dr Maria Stuttaford, Professor Gillian Hundt (University of Warwick) and John Harrington (University of Liverpool)
10.15 - 11.00 Caroline Bollars (European Public Health Alliance): 'Right to health and access to health care - STACS 2007'
11.00 - 11.45 William Onzivu (WHO, legal support):'The role of legal and institutional frameworks of global health agencies in promoting and undermining rights to health'
11.45 - 12.30 Fiona Haigh (International Health Impact Assessment Consortium, University of Liverpool): 'Human Rights and Health Impact Assessment'
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.15 Jim Welsh (Coordinator Health and Human Rights Team, Amnesty International) on the role of NGOs, title tbc
14.15 - 15.00 Peris Jones (Commonwealth Institute London): on HIV/AIDS, governance, equity, discrimination , title tbc
15.00 - 15.30 Tea/Coffee break
15.30 - 16.15 Dabney Evans (University of Aberdeen): 'More than the sum of its parts: Theorizing and applying a synergistic approach to racial discrimination and the right to health'
16.15 - 17.00 Martha Chinouya (London Metropolitan University): 'Processes and challenges: the right to health for transnational Zimbabweans families affected by HIV'
17.00 - 17.30 Closing and linking remarks: Dr Maria Stuttaford, Professor Gillian Hundt (University of Warwick) and Professor John Harrington (University of Liverpool)
19.00 Dinner
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organised back-to-back with
European Public Health Alliance Workshop
Friday 16th November
For details and registration please please visit EPHA's website: http://www.epha.org/a/2717
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Cost:
£ 30 per person (includes complimentary breakfast at venue, tea/coffee, lunch and group dinner) or
£ 15 per person (includes complimentary breakfast at venue, tea/coffee and lunch).
There are fully subsidised places for 3 voluntary organisations. These will be allocated on first come, first serve basis.
To register:
For abstracts and further details please visit our website http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/healthandhumanrights or alternatively, contact Karen van Rompaey on tel. +44(0)2476523164 or [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ac.uk .
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