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Dear All,
The Institute of Health (University of Warwick), the Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics (University of Liverpool) would like to invite you to an ESRC seminar on:
Global Health Issues and Human Rights
Thursday 5th June 12.00 to 17.30, University of Warwick
Friday 6th June, 8.30 to 15.30, University of Warwick and University of Cape Town, video linked
Co-convenors: Dr Maria Stuttaford, University of Maastricht, Professor Gillian Lewando Hundt, University of Warwick, Professor John Harrington, University of Liverpool
Confirmed speakers and titles include:
Stephen Marks, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health on
The Human Right to Tabacco Control
Robyn Martin, Professor of Public Health Law, University of Hertfordshire on
Human Rights and Pandemic Influenza: The Protection of Human Rights in a Public Health Emergency
Leslie London, Professor of Public Health, University of Cape Town on
What is a Human-Rights Based Approach to Health and Does it Matter?
Jacky Thomas, Founding member of Women's Circles Cape Town and Research Fellow, University of Cape Town and Vanessa Reynolds, The Women's Circle on
Learning by Doing and Doing by Learning: Women's Circles, Health and Human Rights
Duncan Matthews, Reader in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary, University of London on
Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Human Rights
Aoife Nolan, Queen's University Belfast on
The Child's Right to Health & The Courts
Giovanni Frazzetto, BIOS, LSE
'I Bambini e le Droghe': The Right to Ritalin vs the Right to Childhood in Italy
Istvan Pogany, Professor of Law, University of Warwick on
Roma and Access to Health-Care in Central and Eastern Europe
Evgeniya Plotnikova, University of Edinburgh on
Codes of Practice and Bilateral Recruitment Agreements as Mechanisms to Balance Patients' Rights vs. Health Professionals' Rights
Jeanelle de Gruchy, Consultant in Public Health, Nottingham PCT
Shaheen Ali, Professor of Law, University of Warwick
Ashraf Mohamed, University Cape Town
Places are limited in both Warwick and UCT. Registration at UCT is free.
Registration at Warwick is £ 30 or £ 50 (group dinner on 5th June included).
To register online, please visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/healthatwarwick/research/currentfundedres/healthandhumanrights/registrations/ <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/healthatwarwick/research/currentfundedres/healthandhumanrights/registrations/> .
For further information, please contact Karen van Rompaey, Institute of Health, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL,
e-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , tel: +44(0)24 7652 3164
or visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/healthatwarwick/research/currentfundedres/healthandhumanrights/ <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/healthatwarwick/research/currentfundedres/healthandhumanrights/>
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