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

Flyer Global Justice and Health Workforce Distribution
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)


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.

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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.


Monday 7 April 2014

Geneva (global) Health Forum 2014 - Programme Overview


GHF2014 – Programme Overview

This is a tentative program. Session details continuously updated.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
08:00
08:45
NETWORKING OVER COFFEE
08:45 10:15PLENARY
PL01 – Room: 2

Integrated Care, Empowered People

10:15
10:45
 COFFEE BREAK Ÿ     •     MARKETPLACE      •     NCD CAFÉ
10:45 12:15PARALLEL SESSIONS
PS01
Rm:Motta

Co-hosted by
Geneva University Hospitals
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PS02
Room:Leman
 Co-hosted by WHO
Who-logo
PS03
Room:15

Co-hosted by

logo_UniGhent
PS04
Room:18
 Co-hosted by
WHO & UNIGE
Who-logo
Fac-de-medecine-UNIGE-logo_imagelarge
PS05
Room:14
Co-hosted by
Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
IVTG_logo_descriptor_EN_CMYK
12:15 13:45LUNCH SESSIONS   •   MARKETPLACE   •   NCD CAFÉ
LS01 • Room: 2
Co-hosted by 
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
LS02 • Room:3
Co-hosted by IFPMA
logo_ifpma
14:00 15:30PARALLEL SESSIONS
PS06
Room: Motta
ghf14
PS07
Room:Leman
ghf14
PS08
Room: 15
ghf14
PS09
Room: 18
ghf14
PS10
Room: 14
ghf14
POSTER SESSION
VENUE: MARKETPLACE
15:30
16:00
 COFFEE BREAK Ÿ     •    MARKETPLACE      •     NCD CAFÉ
16:00 17:30PARALLEL SESSIONS
PS11
Room:Motta

Co-hosted by
The Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
thp_logo_o_cmyk
PS12
Room: Leman

Co-hosted by
Doctors Without Borders
doctors-without-borders
PS13
Room: 14
ghf14
PS14
Room: 18

Co-hosted by
Center for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action
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PS15
Room: 3
Co-hosted by
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
17:30
17:45
BREAK
17:45
19:15

Room: 2 – Official Opening Ceremony of the Geneva Health Forum 2014

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

08:00
08:45
NETWORKING OVER COFFEE
08:45 10:15PLENARY
PL02 • Room: 2

Integrated Health Systems in a Pluralistic and Fast Changing Environment

10:15
10:45
COFFEE BREAK   •   MARKETPLACE   •   NCD CAFÉ
10:45 12:15PARALLEL SESSIONS
PS16
Room: 3
Co-hosted by
The Alliance for Health Policy and System Research
alliancehpsr_logo
PS17
Room: 15
Co-hosted by
WHO & UNIGE
Who-logo
Fac-de-medecine-UNIGE-logo_imagelarge
PS18
Room:Leman
ghf14
PS19
Room: Motta
Co-hosted by
The World Health Organization
Who-logo
PS20
Room:18
ghf14
10:45
12:15
WS01 • Room: 14
wrike-logo
12:15 13:45LUNCH SESSIONS   •   MARKETPLACE   •   NCD CAFÉ
LS03 • Room: 3
Co-hosted by
2014 International Summit of Cooperatives
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LS04 • Room: 2
Health in Armed Conflicts, Challenges, Dilemmas and Prospects
Co-hosted by
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
ICRC_Logo
14:00 15:30PLENARY
PL03 • Room: 2

Global Health Governance: Integrating Competing World Views

15:30 16:00 COFFEE BREAK Ÿ     •    MARKETPLACE      •     NCD CAFÉ
16:00 17:30PARALLEL SESSIONS
PS21
Room: 3
ghf14
PS22
Room:Motta
Co-hosted by
The World Health Organization
Who-logo
PS23
Room:Leman
ghf14
PS24
Room: 18
ghf14
PS25
Room: 14
ghf14
POSTER SESSION
VENUE: MARKETPLACE
17:30
17:45
BREAK
17:45 19:15PLENARY
PL04 • Room: 2

Big Data and the Knowledge Economy: What is there for Global Health?


Thursday, 17 April 2014

08:00
08:45
NETWORKING OVER COFFEE
08:45 10:15PLENARY
PL05 • Room: 2

Integrating Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability

10:15
10:45
 COFFEE BREAK Ÿ     •     MARKETPLACE      •     NCD CAFÉ
10:45 12:15PARALLEL SESSIONS
PS26
Room: Motta
Co-hosted by
The Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute
thp_logo_o_cmyk
PS27
Room: 14
ghf14
PS28
Room: 15
Patient-Centric Technology: Innovation for Health
Co-hosted by
ITU
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PS29
Room:Leman
Co-hosted by
The Institute for Public Communication, Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano
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PS30
Room:3
Debate
Co-hosted by
The Globalization & Health Journal
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12:30 14:00LUNCH SESSIONS    •   MARKETPLACE   •   NCD CAFÉ
MOOCs
Co-hosted by 
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
POSTER SESSION
VENUE: MARKETPLACE
14:00 15:30PARALLEL SESSIONS
PS31
Room:
Co-hosted by
The The New York City Center for Active Design
NYCenterFor Active Design
PS32
Room: Leman
Local Food for All or How to Create Sustainability through Local Mobilization
ghf14
PS33
Room: 14
Global Health Education: What are the Priorities for the Global Health Curriculum?
ghf14
PS34
Room: Motta
Malaria Integration in the Post-MDG Agenda
Co-hosted by
Roll Back Malaria and SDC/Swiss Malaria Group
rbm_logo
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PS35
Room: 3
Social Media for Global Health
ghf14
15:30 17:00PLENARY
PL06 • Room: 2

Closing Session