Workshops

Workshops will be running in two sessions on the Saturday. Delegates will be able to choose which workshops they wish to attend at registration. The following topics and facilitators have been confirmed:

Workshop 1: Privatisation of water systems in Bolivia. Dr John Crabtree, Centre for Latin American Studies, Oxford University, UK

Workshop 2: A Human Rights approach to healthcare commercialisation. Dr Brigit Toebes, University of Aberdeen School of Law, UK

Workshop 3: The impact of commercialisation on health in refugee camps: a personal account. Dr Farhad Cooper, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK

Workshop 4: The Involvement of Private Actors in Global Health Governance: Issues of Accountability and Participation. Dr Anna Holzscheiter. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Workshop 5: Privatisation and Health. Dr Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ, now Chief Executive Officer of United Healthcare Europe

Workshop 6: Profit, Privatisation and Patients: the UK and abroad.
How can health professionals and communities respond? Dr Gilles de Wildt, Medact Board Member, GP and Honarary Clinical Lecturer, Birmingham, UK.

Workshop 7: Global Health Work in the context of the Tooke recommendations. Dr Gareth Lewis, Alma Mata Working Group

Workshop 8: Commercialisation and Health Worker Migration. Mike Rowson, Honorary Lecturer, UCL Centre for International Health and Development

Workshop 9: Fairness, Globalisation and Health. Dr Roberto de Vogli, Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

 

Subject to the consent of the speakers and other contributors, Alma Mata hopes to podcast as much of the conference as possible. Recordings will be available for download from this website and others including iTunes.

Thursday 22nd November 2007. 19:08