Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice
Questions of health justice have been part of discussions about global justice for a long time, and there are numerous approaches, ranging from deontological to consequentialist ones, to address them. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has added not just some urgency to these questions but also showed how structural asymmetries between (and within) different countries led to highly unequal chances to receive and develop vaccines and to care for basic health needs.
It is time for a global debate on global health justice, and the new program set up at Normative Orders aims to help facilitate research conducive to this debate. Many issues need to be explored in this context, not just fair access to medicine but also the nature of transnational structural injustice, gender disparities in health provision, sustainable development goals, climate change and health, the human right to health, etc.
Following the research focus of the Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme, the “Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice” conference places a particular emphasis on themes such as the human right to health, political activism and health justice issues, and problems of structural injustice and vulnerable populations in health care.
Keynote lectures by Jonathan Wolff and Kanchana Mahadevan.
The conference will also feature a distinguished group of international speakers, including Derek Andrews, Mónica Cano Abadía, Mirjam Faissner, Christin Hempeler, Alexandra Phelan, Sarah Potthoff, Romina Rekers, Mercury Shitindo, and Diego Silva.
We are also glad that Katarina Pitasse, Sonja Riegler, and Francesca Cesarano will chair the debates.
Location: Eisenhower Room IG 1.314 (Day 1) and PA Lobby (Day 2)
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The Global Health Justice Programme and this conference are supported by the Höppsche Stiftung in Villmar.
