Public Lecture and Two Day Conference
1-3 June 2011
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, The University of Manchester
The two-day conference will focus on issues in global health and questions concerning shared commitments within the international community. It will bring together leading experts from academia and policy, representing a broad diversity of disciplinary backgrounds and approaches.
As part of this event, Professor Larry Gostin, from Georgetown University, will give a keynote public lecture entitled ‘Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World’s Least Healthy People: Toward a Framework Convention on Global Health’.
Sessions to include:
- Session 1 – Cosmopolitanism and Global Ethics
- Session 2 – From the Public Interest to Global Goods
- Session 3 – Needs, Obligations, and International Relations
- Session 4 – International Health Obligations: From Words to Actions
- Session 5 – Human Rights and Health
- Session 6 – The Human Right to Health
Confirmed speakers and panelists:
- Mr Neil Allen, School of Law, The University of Manchester
- Professor Solomon Benatar, Bioethics Centre, University of Cape Town
- Professor Malcolm Dando, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University
- Dr Angus Dawson, Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University
- Dr Anne-Maree Farrell, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, The University of Manchester
- Mr Thomas Gebauer, Medico International, Germany
- Professor Lawrence Gostin, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, School of Law, Georgetown University
- Dr David Hall-Matthews, Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
- Mr Mark Heywood, Section 27, South Africa
- Professor Stephen Latham, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University
- Professor Gorik Ooms, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
- Ms Sadie Regmi, Universities Allied for Essential Medicine
- Dr Catherine Rhodes, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, The University of Manchester
- Professor Doris Schroeder, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, and Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Melbourne University
- Professor John Sulston, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, The University of Manchester University
- Dr Keith Syrett, School of Law, Bristol University
- Professor Heather Widdows, Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, Birmingham University
- Dr James Wilson, Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health, University College, London
Further information available here soon.
For queries contact: isei@manchester.ac.uk