Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Monday, 21 April 2014
conference: GLOBAL JUSTICE AND HEALTH WORKFORCE DISTRIBUTION
GLOBAL JUSTICE AND HEALTH WORKFORCE DISTRIBUTION
Conference at the Emmy Noether Research Group on June 23rd - 24th 2014
The “global health workforce crisis” is the combined e ffect of three di fferent problems in the global distribution of health workforce: a critical shortage of health care workers, a radically uneven distribution of personnel, and the increasing migration of health workers from poor countries to a ffluent ones (often called “medical brain drain”).
What are the main ethical questions that arise from this situation, and how can we foster fair and feasible solutions? This conference brings together influential speakers on the ethics and policy of global health workforce distribution, addressing key challenges both at the national and international level.
The conference is free of charge and open to all, but registration is necessary. It will take place at the Alexander-von-Humboldt Haus of the University of Münster.
Further information can be found on theconference flyer.
Conference chair: Eszter Kollar and Alena Buyx
More information: eszter.kollar@ukmuenster.de
Registration: Judith Rensing (ideally with the registration form already completed)
What are the main ethical questions that arise from this situation, and how can we foster fair and feasible solutions? This conference brings together influential speakers on the ethics and policy of global health workforce distribution, addressing key challenges both at the national and international level.
The conference is free of charge and open to all, but registration is necessary. It will take place at the Alexander-von-Humboldt Haus of the University of Münster.
Further information can be found on theconference flyer.
Conference chair: Eszter Kollar and Alena Buyx
More information: eszter.kollar@ukmuenster.de
Registration: Judith Rensing (ideally with the registration form already completed)
2014-06-23_24 Flyer2 Med Braindrain.pdf
Monday, 14 April 2014
New Delhi Conference on Global Justice and the Global South - Programme
Conference on Global Justice and the Global South
April 25-27, 2014
University of Delhi
Draft Programme
Day 1: April 25
Noon-4 p.m.: Registration / Poster Session by Students
4:00-4:20 pm: Welcome and Introductory Note: Ashok Acharya, University of Delhi
4:20-4:30 pm: Prof. Ujjwal Singh, Head, Department of Political Science
4:30-4:45 pm: University Officials
4:45-5:15 pm: Inaugural Address by Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International
Affairs, Yale University
5:15-5:45 pm: Keynote by P. Sainath, Journalist
5:45-6:15 pm: Keynote by Brooke Ackerley “Blind abstraction: Overlooking everyday injustice with “global
poverty”
6-15-6:25 pm: Vote of Thanks: Luis Cabrera, University of Birmingham
6:30 pm: Conference Centre Dining
Day 2: April 26
9 a.m.: Registration and Tea
9:30-11 am: Panel 1
Theorizing Global Justice
• Christine Keating “Plurinationalism and Global Justice”
• Jay Drydyk “Inclusion and Exclusion, Social and Global”
• Jayati Srivastava “Global Justice: Theory, Silence and Voices”
• Matthew Lindauer “The Moral Significance of External Relationships”
9:30-11 am: Panel 2
Global Distributive Justice
• Christine Hobden “Global Inequality and State Duties: A Relational Lens”
• Michelle Hawkins “Distributive Justice at the Border”
• Prasenjit Biswas “Global Resource Dividend (GRD) as ‘Transpositional Alternative’ in the
South”
• Daniel Putnam “Global Poverty, Luck Egalitarianism and Collective Responsibility”
11-11:20 am: Tea break
11:20 am-1 pm: Panel 3
Theorizing Global Justice
• Michael Dusche “A Dilemma of Republican Theories of Justice and an Emergentic Reinterpretation”
• Stephen Minister “The Relational Foundation of Global Justice”
• Sridhar Venkatpuram “Contingency of Reasoning in Global Justice”
• Srijit Mishra “A Possible Defence of Rawls: A Note”
11:20 am-1 pm: Panel 4
Perspectives on Development
• Mitu Sengupta “Inequality and Global Justice: Rethinking Sustainability Beyond 2015”
• Mai Hamed “Islamic Finance as a Site of Distributive Justice”
• Gyanaranjan Swain “Happiness, Welfare & Measurement: Critique of the HDI and
Comparative Experience in South Asia”
1-2 pm: Lunch in Conference Centre Dining Hall
2-3:40 pm: Panel 5
Poverty in the Global South
• Araceli Damián-González “Time: the missing variable in measuring poverty”
• Julio Boltvinik “Can the Global South Measure its Own Poverty with its Own Methods? The
Latin American and Mexican Stories”
• Srilakshmi Vajrakarur “The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Poverty Reduction in
India”
2-3:40 pm: Panel 6
Theory and Practice of Rights
• Adina Preda “Are there any positive rights?”
• Scott Wisor “From Sticks & Carrots to Rights Diagnostics: A New Approach to Human Rights
Violations”
• Ayesha Khan ““Let Them Burn”: A Study Of The Plight Of Distraught Riot Victims in India And
Why The Higher Judiciary Should Step In”
• Ujjwal K Singh “‘Hunger Fast,’ Resistance and Justice”
3:40-4 pm: Tea Break
4-5:30 pm: Panel 7
Democracy and Global Institutions
• Julian Culp “Hooray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar World”
• Anindya Sarkar “Making ‘Cosmoplitan Justice’ Work: Democracy and Social Justice”
• Santosh Kumar “New Institutions for Global Justice”
4-5:30 pm: Panel 8
State and Justice
• Ram Tiwari “The Retreat of a Just State: Social Notions and Access to Justice in Nepal”
• Reecha Das “Protecting Indian Local Communities and Traditional Knowledge: The need for
Stringent Domestic Policies and International dialogue on Access and Benefit Sharing”
• Rajesh Dev “Translating Justice and Institutionalising Democracy: An Analytic Exploration”
5:30-7 pm: Keynote
Prof. V. Sitaramam: “Who Needs the Poverty Line Anyway? A New Index for Deprivation sans Poverty
Line”
Day 3: April 27
9:30-11am: Panel 9
Climate Change and Justice
• Tim Hayward “Principles for just institutions on a crowded planet: ecological and socialist”
• Omar Dahbour “ECOSOVEREIGNTY: Reconciling Global Justice with Local Autonomy”
• Braja Sahoo “Rawls’ General Conceptions of Justice & Environmental Justice Struggles in
Odisha: A Study of Anti- POSCO Movement”
9:30-11am: Panel 10
Critique of the Global Political Economy
• Mursed Alam “Imperial Capital, Comprador Democracy and Subaltern Justice”
• Roopinder Oberoi “Escaping the Regulatory Grille – Understanding the Taxonomy of ‘Power’
and ‘Politics’ of Global Conglomerate”
• Qingxiu Bu “The Anatomy of Chinese Multinationals' Overseas Behavior: Human Rights
Perspectives”
11-11:20: Tea break
11:20-1 pm: Panel 11
Rights and Entitlements: Local and Global
• Rozy Kumari “Securing Right To Food along with Food Sovereignty: An Approach towards a
Hunger-Free World”
• Xie Si “Urban Direct Cash Transfer: A Comparative Study of India and China”
• Dillip Mallik “Ragpickers as Destiny’s Children: Understanding their Rights from a Capability
Perspective”
11:20-1 pm: Panel 12
Gender and Inequality
• Nidhi Sabharwal “Dalit Women Rights and Citizenship: At the Cross-Roads of Gender &
Caste”
• Lisa L. Fuller “Is Gender Oppression the Root of Global Economic Inequality?”
• Bijayalaxmi Nanda “Sex-selective Abortion and Gender Justice: A Global Perspective”
• Sarah-Louise Johnson “Commercial Surrogacy: Comparing Indian and American Practices”
1-2 pm: Lunch in conference dining hall
2-3:40 pm: Panel 13
Cosmopolitan Interrogations
• Chandrachur Singh “Green Cosmopolitanism: Bringing Gandhi In”
• P K Datta “Cosmopolitanising Rural Margins: The Practices of Viswa Bharati’s Sriniketan”
• Fonna Forman & Teddy Cruz “Medellin is the Future: The Architecture of Civic Freedom”
2-3:40 pm: Panel 14
Illicit Financial Flows & Corruption
• Cristian Dimitriu “What is wrong with the current international financial system?”
• Tsepho H Mongalo “Possible Contribution of Corporate Law Remedies to Curbing Illicit
Outflows of Capital from Africa”
• Pawan Kumar “Challenges of Corruption and Indian Democracy”
3:40-4 pm: Tea break
4-5:30 pm: Valedictory address and closing comments from organizers
The Department of Political Science in partnership with the School of Open Learning, University of Delhi, the Macmillan Global Justice Program, Yale University & Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham will host the conference. The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Council’s UK-US-India Trilateral Research in Partnership Programme, which made international travel for this conference possible.
April 25-27, 2014
University of Delhi
Draft Programme
Day 1: April 25
Noon-4 p.m.: Registration / Poster Session by Students
4:00-4:20 pm: Welcome and Introductory Note: Ashok Acharya, University of Delhi
4:20-4:30 pm: Prof. Ujjwal Singh, Head, Department of Political Science
4:30-4:45 pm: University Officials
4:45-5:15 pm: Inaugural Address by Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International
Affairs, Yale University
5:15-5:45 pm: Keynote by P. Sainath, Journalist
5:45-6:15 pm: Keynote by Brooke Ackerley “Blind abstraction: Overlooking everyday injustice with “global
poverty”
6-15-6:25 pm: Vote of Thanks: Luis Cabrera, University of Birmingham
6:30 pm: Conference Centre Dining
Day 2: April 26
9 a.m.: Registration and Tea
9:30-11 am: Panel 1
Theorizing Global Justice
• Christine Keating “Plurinationalism and Global Justice”
• Jay Drydyk “Inclusion and Exclusion, Social and Global”
• Jayati Srivastava “Global Justice: Theory, Silence and Voices”
• Matthew Lindauer “The Moral Significance of External Relationships”
9:30-11 am: Panel 2
Global Distributive Justice
• Christine Hobden “Global Inequality and State Duties: A Relational Lens”
• Michelle Hawkins “Distributive Justice at the Border”
• Prasenjit Biswas “Global Resource Dividend (GRD) as ‘Transpositional Alternative’ in the
South”
• Daniel Putnam “Global Poverty, Luck Egalitarianism and Collective Responsibility”
11-11:20 am: Tea break
11:20 am-1 pm: Panel 3
Theorizing Global Justice
• Michael Dusche “A Dilemma of Republican Theories of Justice and an Emergentic Reinterpretation”
• Stephen Minister “The Relational Foundation of Global Justice”
• Sridhar Venkatpuram “Contingency of Reasoning in Global Justice”
• Srijit Mishra “A Possible Defence of Rawls: A Note”
11:20 am-1 pm: Panel 4
Perspectives on Development
• Mitu Sengupta “Inequality and Global Justice: Rethinking Sustainability Beyond 2015”
• Mai Hamed “Islamic Finance as a Site of Distributive Justice”
• Gyanaranjan Swain “Happiness, Welfare & Measurement: Critique of the HDI and
Comparative Experience in South Asia”
1-2 pm: Lunch in Conference Centre Dining Hall
2-3:40 pm: Panel 5
Poverty in the Global South
• Araceli Damián-González “Time: the missing variable in measuring poverty”
• Julio Boltvinik “Can the Global South Measure its Own Poverty with its Own Methods? The
Latin American and Mexican Stories”
• Srilakshmi Vajrakarur “The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Poverty Reduction in
India”
2-3:40 pm: Panel 6
Theory and Practice of Rights
• Adina Preda “Are there any positive rights?”
• Scott Wisor “From Sticks & Carrots to Rights Diagnostics: A New Approach to Human Rights
Violations”
• Ayesha Khan ““Let Them Burn”: A Study Of The Plight Of Distraught Riot Victims in India And
Why The Higher Judiciary Should Step In”
• Ujjwal K Singh “‘Hunger Fast,’ Resistance and Justice”
3:40-4 pm: Tea Break
4-5:30 pm: Panel 7
Democracy and Global Institutions
• Julian Culp “Hooray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar World”
• Anindya Sarkar “Making ‘Cosmoplitan Justice’ Work: Democracy and Social Justice”
• Santosh Kumar “New Institutions for Global Justice”
4-5:30 pm: Panel 8
State and Justice
• Ram Tiwari “The Retreat of a Just State: Social Notions and Access to Justice in Nepal”
• Reecha Das “Protecting Indian Local Communities and Traditional Knowledge: The need for
Stringent Domestic Policies and International dialogue on Access and Benefit Sharing”
• Rajesh Dev “Translating Justice and Institutionalising Democracy: An Analytic Exploration”
5:30-7 pm: Keynote
Prof. V. Sitaramam: “Who Needs the Poverty Line Anyway? A New Index for Deprivation sans Poverty
Line”
Day 3: April 27
9:30-11am: Panel 9
Climate Change and Justice
• Tim Hayward “Principles for just institutions on a crowded planet: ecological and socialist”
• Omar Dahbour “ECOSOVEREIGNTY: Reconciling Global Justice with Local Autonomy”
• Braja Sahoo “Rawls’ General Conceptions of Justice & Environmental Justice Struggles in
Odisha: A Study of Anti- POSCO Movement”
9:30-11am: Panel 10
Critique of the Global Political Economy
• Mursed Alam “Imperial Capital, Comprador Democracy and Subaltern Justice”
• Roopinder Oberoi “Escaping the Regulatory Grille – Understanding the Taxonomy of ‘Power’
and ‘Politics’ of Global Conglomerate”
• Qingxiu Bu “The Anatomy of Chinese Multinationals' Overseas Behavior: Human Rights
Perspectives”
11-11:20: Tea break
11:20-1 pm: Panel 11
Rights and Entitlements: Local and Global
• Rozy Kumari “Securing Right To Food along with Food Sovereignty: An Approach towards a
Hunger-Free World”
• Xie Si “Urban Direct Cash Transfer: A Comparative Study of India and China”
• Dillip Mallik “Ragpickers as Destiny’s Children: Understanding their Rights from a Capability
Perspective”
11:20-1 pm: Panel 12
Gender and Inequality
• Nidhi Sabharwal “Dalit Women Rights and Citizenship: At the Cross-Roads of Gender &
Caste”
• Lisa L. Fuller “Is Gender Oppression the Root of Global Economic Inequality?”
• Bijayalaxmi Nanda “Sex-selective Abortion and Gender Justice: A Global Perspective”
• Sarah-Louise Johnson “Commercial Surrogacy: Comparing Indian and American Practices”
1-2 pm: Lunch in conference dining hall
2-3:40 pm: Panel 13
Cosmopolitan Interrogations
• Chandrachur Singh “Green Cosmopolitanism: Bringing Gandhi In”
• P K Datta “Cosmopolitanising Rural Margins: The Practices of Viswa Bharati’s Sriniketan”
• Fonna Forman & Teddy Cruz “Medellin is the Future: The Architecture of Civic Freedom”
2-3:40 pm: Panel 14
Illicit Financial Flows & Corruption
• Cristian Dimitriu “What is wrong with the current international financial system?”
• Tsepho H Mongalo “Possible Contribution of Corporate Law Remedies to Curbing Illicit
Outflows of Capital from Africa”
• Pawan Kumar “Challenges of Corruption and Indian Democracy”
3:40-4 pm: Tea break
4-5:30 pm: Valedictory address and closing comments from organizers
The Department of Political Science in partnership with the School of Open Learning, University of Delhi, the Macmillan Global Justice Program, Yale University & Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham will host the conference. The organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the British Council’s UK-US-India Trilateral Research in Partnership Programme, which made international travel for this conference possible.
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Sunday, 13 April 2014
It is possible to address social determinants of illness/health in the USA - Rebecca Onie of Health Leads
Rebecca Onie is the founder of Health Leads, a program that connects patients to basic care and resources, such as food and housing, that are the root cause of many health problems.
In 1996, as a sophomore in college, Rebecca Onie had a realization: The health care system in the United States was not set up to diagnose nor treat the socioeconomic issues that lead to poor health, and that health care providers are not given tools to address basic problems like nutrition and housing.
So, while still a sophomore, she co-founded Health Leads, a program that assists low-income patients and their families to access food, heat, and other basic resources they need to be healthy. With the additional insight that college volunteers could be recruited and trained into an elite group just like a college sport team, she found the people and skills needed to produce such an audacious idea. Since then it has grown tremendously, and now operates in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, New York, Providence, and Washington, DC, and in the last year assisted over 8,800 patients.
In 2009, Rebecca was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
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