SUMMER ACADEMY PROGRAMME

The Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health aims to introduce researchers, practitioners, and graduate students to population-level bioethics. The Academy hopes to stimulate high-level academic work on these issues and to bring them to the attention of  those working in these fields. Our goal is to add ethical analysis and 

reasoning to the social and biological sciences as methods for 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?

Morning lectures: Interdisciplinary approach, Internationally renowned professors, Daily participant discussions

&

Afternoon workshops, Daily roundtable discussion, In-depth study of selected issues

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

Yukiko Asada, Dalhousie University

Dan Brock, Harvard University

Norman Daniels, Harvard University

Angus Deaton, Princeton University

David Evans, World Health Organization

Dan Hausman, University of Wisconsin

Julien Legrand, London School of Economics

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

Ritu Sadan, World Health Organization

Larry Temkin, Rutgers University

Wlodek Rabinowitz, University of Lund

Shlomi Segall, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alex Voorhoeve, London School of Economics

This is a one-week course, from Monday July 12th to Friday July 16th 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.

RESGISTRATION

Attendance is limited to 25 participants. Registration includes:

Course documentation

5 Lunches

4 Diner vouchers

1 Gala dinner

5 Nights in Geneva

APPLICATION

Application form is available at :

www.brocher.ch

Deadline May 7^th 2010

Application should include a short CV, one writing sample, and a one paragraph description of current research interests.

PROGRAMME FEE

Normal registration

500 CHF

Scholarships:

The registration fee may be waived on request for a number of junior researchers (up to 5 years post PhD). Those requiring a waiver should include their request along 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