Global Health and Human Rights: Theoretical Perspectives

ESRC Research Seminar Series on
Global Health and Human Rights
Theory, Process and Substance

19th - 20th April 2007
The Liverpool Law School, Liverpool

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/healthatwarwick/

Speakers include:

• Professor Upendra Baxi (University of Warwick) - ‘The Place of the Human Right to Health. Contemporary Approaches to Global Justice; Some Impertinent Interrogations’
• Professor Brigit Toebes (University of Aberdeen) - ‘Taking a Human Rights Approach to Health Care Commercialisation’
• Professor Robyn Martin (University of Hertfordshire) - ‘Comparative National Population Health Laws And Comparative Approaches To Human Rights: Seeking Global Health In A Disparate World’
• Professor Udo Schuklenk (Glasgow Caledonian University) - ‘The 10/90 Gap in International Health Research - Drug R&D: Whose Moral Responsibility is it?’
• Ms Lisa Foreman (University of Toronto, Canada) - ‘What Future for the Minimum Core? From the Margins to the Centre: The International Right to Health and the South African Experience
• Professor Roger Brownsword (King’s College London) - ‘The Ancillary-Care Responsibilities of Researchers: Reasonable But Not Great Expectations’

Cost
£ 40 per person (includes lunch on arrival, tea/coffee on both days and lunch before departure)

There are fully subsidised places for 3 voluntary organisations and 3 post graduate students. These will be allocated on first come, first serve basis.

Accommodation
Suggested hotels can be found at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/healthatwarwick/research/currentfundedres/healthandhumanrights/

How to get to the Liverpool Law School
http://www.liv.ac.uk/about/visiting/index.htm

Places are limited. To reserve your place, please complete this registration form by: April 12th 2007