LSE Conference. 25 years of health research / towards global health policy')

Towards a global health policy? Celebrating 25 years of health policy research and teaching at the LSE 19-20 March 2012, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 


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LSE is holding a special conference to celebrate its five health MSc programmes. The conference will bring together alumni, policymakers, practitioners, students and academics to debate key global health policy issues.

Themes include:

Global health, global justice?
Does 'high-performing health system' mean the same thing everywhere?
The global health workforce: how can we get it right?
Access to drugs: the number one policy issue?
Protecting health in difficult circumstances: politics, economics and health
Why attend?

Find out about current debates and research on major health policy issues
Meet up with former and current LSE students and staff
Network, share your experiences, make new links
What next?

LSE's director, Professor Judith Rees, will open the conference on the evening of 19th March, followed by a keynote speaker and reception. After a day of plenary sessions involving leading international speakers on 20th March, the conference will close with a drinks reception.

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LSE Health and Social Care gratefully acknowledges financial support from the LSE Annual Fund, on-line journal Globalization and Health, LSE Health, Dr Adam Oliver and Dr Panos Kanavos. If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Dr Sarah Thomson|.

Michael Sandel LSE BBC 3 lectures March 8 & 9

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The Public Philosopher - Lecture 1  

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LSE and BBC Radio 4 public event

Date: Thursday 8 March 2012
Time: 5.45-7pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel

Michael Sandel is a professor of political philosophy at Harvard and one of the
university's most popular lecturers. In a series of of public events, recorded at the
London School of Economics and Political Science, he will challenge his audience to apply critical thinking to the sort of ethical dilemmas most people rely on gut instinct to resolve.

Michael Sandel's lectures to Harvard undergraduates are so popular that students
have to be turned away. The lectures are challenging and interactive.  Audience members are asked to raise their hands in response to a series of questions about their attitudes to a political issue of the day. The brave ones will volunteer to explain the thinking behind their views.  So begins an hour in which political controversies are examined with regard to the underlying philosophical issues.

An antidote to the "yah-boo" debate of party politics, Sandel's lectures will be profound as well as entertaining.

The three lectures will take place on 5.45pm and 7.45pm on Thursday March 8 and at 6.30pm on Friday March 9. Each event is ticketed, so you need to submit a ticket request for each of the lectures.

Topics will be decided close to recording, but each of the three lectures will examine a different issue.

The lectures will be broadcast as The Public Philosopher on BBC Radio 4 at 9am on Tuesday 3, 10 and 17 April 2012.

Michael Sandel is Professor of Government and lecturer in political philosophy at
Harvard. As the BBC's Reith lecturer in 2009, he explored the topics of moral and
civic renewal in democratic politics; genetics and morality; the role of morality in
politics; and the moral limits of markets. In January 2011 he hosted a discussion for
BBC Four at the Royal Institution on fairness in public policy and the Big Society. His
latest book, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, will be published in
April 2012.

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