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One-day interdisciplinary conference on International Health Worker Migration
Website:
">http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/GlobalHealth/
The closing date for submission of abstracts is Friday 22nd June 2007
Keynote Speakers
Professor Thomas Pogge, Columbia University
Professor Karen Hassell, University of Manchester
Globalisation and the prospects of international migration bring both opportunities and challenges. The north-south and south-south ‘brain drain’ of skilled labour is induced by and reinforces gross global inequalities that have been exacerbated by globalisation. International migration in the healthcare professions threatens health, human rights and development goals for the world’s poor challenging notions that justice, health systems and migration policies are matters only for domestic concern. Against this backdrop, this conference is interested in understanding the ‘brain drain’ of health workers and its impact on global health as matters of justice.

Location:
Keele University , UK