[EQ] Brocher Summer Academy: Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities - Call for applications

BROCHER SUMMER ACADEMY IN GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH 2010
Geneva, Switzerland, 12th July - 16th July

Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities

Deadline May 7^th 2010

Application form is available at : http://www.brocher.ch/pages/programme.asp

Organized by
THE BROCHER FOUNDATION,
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY PROGRAM IN ETHICS & HEALTH, &
THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ETHICS

SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME
 
The Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health aims to introduce graduate students and researchers to population-level bioethics. The Academy hopes to stimulate high-level academic work on ethical issues in population  health and global health and to bring ethical dimensions of population and global health to the attention of policy makers and practitioners. The Academy’s seminars will draw on the resources of many disciplines to identify the key ethical issues, and to apply a variety of problem-solving strategies to their resolution. Ethical analysis and reasoning thus joins the methods of the social and biological sciences in contributing to the global project of relieving the burden of disease.  
 
The 2010 Academy in Global Population Health will focus on “Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of health Inequalities”. A substantive focus will be given to the following topics:
 

· How should we rank distributions of health across populations in order of inequality?
· What are the ethical implications of using different measures of health inequalities?
· Which -if any- of the common measures of economic inequality are informative when applied to health?
· Are all health inequalities morally objectionable or unjust?
   Should we measure health inequalities across groups, across individuals, or both?
 · What priority should reduction in health inequalities have among prominent goals of health policy?
 

SPECIAL EVENT, BROCHER LECTURE
Thursday, July 15th  Measuring health inequality and health inequity Prof. Tony Atkinson

ORGANISERS
Samia Hurst, University of Geneva
Nir Eyal, Harvard University
Dan Wikler, Harvard University
 
SPEAKERS

Gustaf Arrhenius, University of Stockholm (to be confirmed)
Yukiko Asada, Dalhousie University
Dan Brock, Harvard University
Norman Daniels, Harvard University
Dan Hausman, University of Madison
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen
Rafael Lozano, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington
Erik Nord, Nowegian Institute of Public Health
Ole Norheim, University of Bergen
Larry Temkin, Rutgers Univerity
Wlodek Rabinowitz, University of Lund
Shlomi Segall, University of Jerusalem
 

DURATION  This is a one-week course, from Monday July 12^th to Friday July 16^th 2010.
 
TARGET AUDIENCE
Post-doctoral fellows, PhD students, junior faculty, professionals involved in health policy, or international health, interested health care providers from all over the world and from various disciplines: moral and political philosophy, public and international health, bioethics, law, economics, medicine, social sciences, etc.
 
CREDITS  Participants receive a course certificate. Participation in this program may be accepted for credit by universities.
 
Scholarships:
The registration fee may be waived on request for junior researchers (up to 5 years post PhD).
A letter of motivation (max. one page) should be sent by May 7th to scientificprog@brocher.ch with the application material

VENUE & CONTACT ADDRESS
Brocher Foundation  Summer Academy in Global Population Health
Rte d’Hermance, 471, CP 70
CH-1248 Hermance  Switzerland

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