2012 National Health Law Conference: Global Health Challenges & the Role of Law

This conference will bring together leading scholars, policy-makers, practicing lawyers and health care professionals to explore how law can address global health challenges and make real progressive change. 

The kinds of global challenges participants will explore include:

• Access to care and essential medicines on the part of the most vulnerable (poor, mentally ill, aboriginal populations)
• The rise and inequitable impact of medical tourism
• The spread of chronic diseases around the world
• Exponential increases in smoking in many countries
• The obesity epidemic and so forth...

In the legal world we think we can meet these challenges through law and litigation - for example human rights litigation - but to what extent is that true and what are the context and circumstances where law/litigation can really make a positive difference?  And where is law simply used by vested interests to further inequities?

Confirmed speakers include:

• Mary Anne Bobinski, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia
• Timothy Caulfield, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
• I. Glenn Cohen, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics , Harvard Law School
• Rebecca Cook, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Jocelyn Downie, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
• Colleen M. Flood, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Richard Gold, McGill University
• Lawrence O. Gostin, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law
• Trudo Lemmens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• and many more…

Keynote Panel Debate:  "Can Law Meet Global Health Challenges?  Perspectives from Medicine and Politics"

 Keynote panelists:

• Abdallah S. Daar, Senior Scientist, the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health & & Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
• Theodore R. Marmor, Health Care Policy, Politics and Law Expert, Yale University
• Michael Ignatieff, Senior Resident, Massey College, University of Toronto
• James Orbinski, Chair and Professor in Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Co-Director, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

For more information or to register, please follow this link.