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The University of Manchester, School of Law, is proud to host Healthcare disparities: disruptive healthcare technologies and the patient , a conference held in collaboration with Queen Mary School of Law, on the 13 and 14 June 2019.

The question of health inequalities worldwide has become increasingly significant. Disparities in healthcare refer to often-negative differences in healthcare provision between different population groups, such as race/ethnicity, age, socio-economic group and gender.

Disruptive technologies offer the potential to reset the playing field, injecting new opportunities for healthcare development and offering the potential to provide cheaper, simpler products or services

The conference encourages fundamental and challenging questions to be asked: Are disparities in health here to stay? To what extent is technological innovation the answer to health inequalities? And what legal and ethical benefits and challenges might emerge in the future?

In addition to keynote and breakout presentations from world-leading experts, including Professor Nicolas Terry, Professor Ian Freckelton QC, Professor Tamara Hervey, Professor Mette Hartlev and Professor Richard Ashcroft, there will be a drinks reception at The University of Manchester on 13 June.

Delegates are invited to attend a networking dinner at The Crowne Plaza, Oxford Road on Friday 14 June for an additional fee. 
This event has been approved by the Royal College of Physicians for 18 category 1 (external) CPD credits.

·         Register here for the conference

Jean Monnet Summer School on Human Rights and Health, organized by the Jean Monnet Chair in European Health, Environmental and Food Safety Law, which will be held at the University of Salerno from 1 to 5 July 2019.

Deadline for registration is 31 May 2019.

The registration form is accessible at the following link: 

https://goo.gl/forms/quUfwr0qRwFjDyyG2

Please, click the appropriate name to download the final teaching programme  and the programme of the opening conference of the Jean Monnet summer school in Salerno, please.

Organised under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the 7th Congress of the European Association of Health Law (EAHL) will host the workshop “The   Council of Europe Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) and Bioethics”.

For more details, please, visit the official CoE website at https://www.coe.int/en/web/bioethics/-/human-rights-in-biomedicine-for-legal-and-health-professiona-1

Main Themes:  Role of Medical Law in 21st Century; Collaboration Between Medical Law, Bioethics and Legal Medicine

Aim:  The 25th World Congress for Medical Law will be held in Tokyo, Waseda University International Conference Center in August 6-8, 2019.  This Congress will focus on constructing a bridge between medical law, bioethics and legal medicine. Japanese Association of Medical Law has a history for 50 years since 1969, and has discussed various issues on medical law. Therefore we hope that many participants will meet at the Congress, and discuss subjects on constructing a bridge between medical law, bioethics and legal medicine.

Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world, and has many tourist spots. So please enjoy staying in Tokyo.

(Three Pillars)

1. Constructing a Bridge between Medical Law, Bioethics and Legal Medicine

2. Advanced Medicine and Medical Law

3. Toward Further Developments of Medical Law in 21 Century from the "Global and Glocal Viewpoints"

For more information, please, visit http://wafml.memberlodge.org/ 

From May 11-14, 2020 the 14th UNESCO Chair in Bioethics World Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law will take place in Porto, Portugal.

For further information please check the conference website at http://bioethics-porto2020.com/

In a rapidly globalised word, health and human rights are closely related. Violating basic human rights can heavily impact in a negative way the health of individuals and communities. Violating further basic human rights might also lead to inequality and discrimination in access to health-care services. The realisation of human rights in health care is therefore a key-obligation, both at national and global level. But what is the relationship between human rights and global health about? What are the key elements of that complex relationship, what are the key national and international institutions, and how do they respond to human rights challenges in health? These and other issues will be adressed during a one-day seminar, organised by the Erasmus Health Law Observatory, Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and IDIVAL, University of Cantabria (Spain) and hosted by the Erasmus Law School.

Seminar co-directors:

André den Exter, Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University Rotterdam (denexter@law.eur.nl)

Joaquin Cayon, IDIVAL-University of Cantabria (joaquin.cayon@unican.es)

To read more, please, click here

The University of Manchester, School of Law, is proud to host Healthcare disparities: disruptive healthcare technologies and the patient, a conference held in collaboration with Queen Mary School of Law, on the 13 and 14 June 2019.

The question of health inequalities worldwide has become increasingly significant. Disparities in healthcare refer to often-negative differences in healthcare provision between different population groups, such as race/ethnicity, age, socio-economic group and gender.

Disruptive technologies offer the potential to reset the playing field, injecting new opportunities for healthcare development and offering the potential to provide cheaper, simpler products or services

The conference encourages fundamental and challenging questions to be asked: Are disparities in health here to stay? To what extent is technological innovation the answer to health inequalities? And what legal and ethical benefits and challenges might emerge in the future?

In addition to keynote and breakout presentations from world-leading experts, Professor Nicolas Terry, Professor Ian Freckelton QC, Professor Tamara Hervey, Professor Mette Hartlev and Professor Richard Ashcroft, there will be a drinks reception at The University of Manchester on 13 June.

Delegates are invited to attend a networking dinner at The Crowne Plaza, Oxford Road on Friday 14 June for an additional fee.  A pre-conference PGR day will be held on 12 June 2019.

This event has been approved by the Royal College of Physicians for 18 category 1 (external) CPD credits.

·Register here for the conference at a reduced fee of £150 for EAHL members!

To  access the most recent flyer of the conference, please, click here.

Latest newsletter of 'Jean Monnet Chair on EU & Ethics', which covers an overview on past activities, as well as some upcoming ones, has been published at the Chair’s website: https://jeanmonnet.mci.edu/

One of these upcoming events (will be held in German | at MCI) will take place on April 25th, covering a keynote of ECJ judge François Biltgen, as well as the presentation of Marcus Frischhut's book “The Ethical Spirit of EU Law”.

This book will soon be published open access at Springer: https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030105815.

If you want to attend this event, please register via alumni@mci.edu 

The Jean Monnet Network on Health Law and Policy organizes a Jean Monnet summer school on health law for the last week of September (24 to 28) in Santander, Spain. The seminar is co-funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union.

https://www.santander2018-jean-monnet-summer-school.eu/

Scholarships for early career researchers, PhD candidates, or other interested health lawyers/policy makers  are already available and include free registration, acommodation free of charge, and partial reimbursement of travel costs (up to €100.00)

If you are interested in being granted with a scholarship please fill the form at https://www.santander2018-jean-monnet-summer-school.eu/contact/