Global Assembly: Advancing the Human Right to Health

April  20-22, 2001

Iowa Memorial Union
The University of Iowa

Organized by: UI Global Health Studies Program, and UI Center for Human Rights

Co-Sponsors: University of Iowa
College of Public Health
College of Medicine
Office of International Programs
Associate Provost for Health Sciences
International Programs National Resource Center
Global Studies
Anthropology Department
Students Against Sweatshops

Off-Campus Sponsors
The Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
The University of Northern Iowa, Global Health Corps
Global Lawyers and Physicians
Physicians for Human Rights
Doctors for Global Health
The Stanley Foundation

For a complete listing of Assembly supporters please contact Center for Conferences or see brochure.

The Assembly will elaborate, disseminate, and advance the core human rights concept, “Right to Health” by:

1. Illustrating the specific consequences worldwide of denial of the right to health;
2. Presenting research findings and identifying practical strategies that encourage equity, accessibility, acceptability, self-determination, and sustainability in health services;
3. Introducing appropriate initiatives for international, national, and local communities to incorporate within institutions of government, learning, employment, and civic society that affirm economic, social and cultural human rights to support health;
4. Composing and publishing a substantive Iowa City Declaration addressing the Right to Health, that underscores the interdependence of health, human rights, and social justice and addresses the role of global disparities in the production of widespread suffering and ill health.

At the end of the Assembly: Advancing the Human Right to Health, participants will be able to:

1. Elaborate the interdependent nature of health, human rights, and social justice;
2. Identify situations where the right to health may be compromised by gender, age, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, or disease state;
3. Describe appropriate, accessible, and acceptable models for health care from a transdisciplinary and global human rights perspective;
4. Explain how political, economic or health policies can adversely impact health and violate basic human rights;
5. Identify at least three appropriate policy directives for inclusion in health services and health law organizations to positively impact global health;
6. Identify several sources of intellectual and financial support for new initiatives in health and human rights.
   

Registration:



Fees:
















Academic Credit:

Conference pre-registration is required of all attendees including students. To register, use online registration form or request a conference brochure by calling Jo Dickens at the Center for Conferences at 319-335-4159, complete and return the registration form with the registration fee.

Physicians and Physician Assistants:  this activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of Iowa College of Medicine and the University of Iowa International Programs.  The College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Iowa College of medicine designates this continuing education activity for 16 credit hours in Category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.

The University of Iowa College of Nursing is an Iowa Board of Nursing approved provider, Number 1.  Full-time attendance will award 1.35 CEUs or 13.5 contact hours.

The University of Iowa is an Iowa board of Social Work Examiners approved provider #34.  This program is approved for 1.35 CEUs or 13.5 contact hours upon completion of this conference.

The University of Iowa awards 1.5 General CEUs or 15 contact hours for attendance at this conference.

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Conference Program:

Global Assembly on "Advancing the Human Right to Health"
Program Outline

Friday, April 20, IMU Ballroom
Noon-1:00 PM
Registration
1:00 - 3:20 PM

Plenary 1 - EFINING AND REFINING THE RIGHT TO HEALTH: AVAILABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY, ACCEPTABILITY

3:30-5:00 PM

Response Workshops 1 (led by local Iowa respondents/discussants)

Diana Cates - Associate Professor of Religion, UI School of Religion
John Lowe - Professor & Director, Behavioral and Community Medicine, UI College of Public Health
Susan Koch - Dean of Student Affairs, University of Northern Iowa

Complementary Panel 1 - HOW DO NEW TECHNOLOGIES (COMMUNICATIONS, BIO-PHARMACEUTICAL, INDUSTRIAL, etc.) AFFECT THE RIGHT TO HEALTH ?

Local Iowa respondents/discussants

Michael d’Alessandro - Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, UI College of Medicne
Clifford Missen - Systems Analyst, UI International Programs; Author, USAID Grant to Bring Nigeria into Digital Age
Robert Olick - Associate Professor, Department of Medical Ethics, UI College of Medicine

5:30-7:00
Reception and Banquet

7:00-8:00 PM

Keynote Speaker: Daniel Tarantola, M.D. - Senior Policy Adviser to the Director-General of WHO

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Saturday, April 21

7:30-8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast/ Meet the Experts

8:30 - 10:20 AM

Plenary 2 - MONITORING THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH: INDICATORS AND MECHANISMS

10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Response Workshops 2 (led by local Iowa respondents/discussants)

Leslie Marshall, R.N., Ph.D., Associate Professor, UI College of Nursing
Michael McNulty, Ph.D., Professor, UI Department of Geography
Roberta Till-Retz, UI Labor Center

Complementary Panel 2 - MAKING THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH REAL: HEALTH RIGHTS AND OTHER RIGHTS

Local Iowa respondents/discussants

Robert Weir, J.D. Ph.D. Department of Medical Ethics, UI College of Medicine
Dorothy Paul, Executive Director, UI Center for Human Rights

Lunch On Your Own

1:30 - 3:20 PM

Plenary 3 - ENSURING THE REQUISITE RESOURCES FOR THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEASURES

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Response Workshops 3 (led by local Iowa respondents/discussants)

Rex Honey, Associate Professor, UI Department of Geography and Director, UI Global Studies Program
Michele Yehiele, Director, Global Health Corps, University of Northern Iowa
Mac Marshall, Professor, UI Department of Anthropology

Complementary Panel 3 - DO COERCIVE ECONOMIC AND/OR MILITARY POLICIES VIOLATE THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH?

Local Iowa respondents/discussants

Maureen McCue, M.D., Ph.D. - Director, Global Health Studies Program
Laurence Fuortes, M.D. - Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health, UI College of Public Health

5:30-7:00

Buffet Dinner

7:00-9:00 PM

R & R, Network, Entertainment:

Reverend Billy, Church of Stop Shopping

Live Music: Salsa Band

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Sunday, April 22 IMU Ballroom

7:30-8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast/ Meet the Experts

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Plenary Address-Globalization: Its Impact on Health. Carlos Pazos, M.D.- Advisor to the Cuban Minister of Health

9:00 - 10:20 AM

Plenary 4 - ZEROING IN ON THE WORLD’S MOST AT-RISK POPULATIONS: ACHIEVING SIMPLE JUSTICE

10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Complementary Panel 4.1 - THE HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN

Local Iowa respondents/discussants

Melanie Dreher R.N., Ph.D. - Dean, U College of Nursing
Jael Silliman, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, UI Department of Women’s Studies
Holly Wardlow, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, UI Department of Anthropology

Complementary Panel 4.2 - THE HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF AIDS VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Local Iowa respondents/discussants

TBA

Note: Rex Kuye and the conference organizers would like participants to know that a mistake was made in the conference program. Rex Kuye does not have a Ph.D.; he is not the Director of the Public Health Department in The Gambia; and he will not be speaking at this conference. Please pardon any confusion this mistake may have caused.

Complementary Panel 4.3 - THE HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF MARGINALIZED, INDIGENOUS, IMPRISONED AND GLBT PEOPLES

Local Iowa respondents/discussants

Larry John Zimmerman, Ph.D. - Visiting Professor, UI Department of American Indian and Native Studies
Mickey Eliason RN Ph.D. Professor of Nursing

12:15 - 1:15 PM

Buffet Lunch Provided

1:30-3:30 PM

Plenary 5: ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY: AN IOWA CITY DECLARATION ON ADVANCING THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH

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Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
FAAP Professor of Health Law, Psychiatry, Philosophy, and Medicine, in Boston University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and College of Arts and Sciences.

Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA
Editor of Health and Human Rights, Director Program on International Health and Human Rights, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Assistant Professor on Health and Human Rights Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health.

Timothy Hotlz MD, MPH, Malaria Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Vincent Iacopino, MD, PhD
Senior Medical Consultant, Physicians for Human Rights.

Jim Yong Kim, Ph.D. M.D. - Director, Partners in Health

Virginia A. Leary, JD
Professor of Law and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

James Love, MA
Director Consumer Project on Technology, and Director of the Taxpayer Assets Project, Center for Study of Responsive Law, Washington, DC

Mark Nichter PhD, Professor Medical Anthropology, University of Arizona

Stephen Marks
Director François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health

Robert Mazur, PhD
Associate Professor Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa.

Carlos Pazos, M.D. - Advisor to the Cuban Minister of Health

Eibe Riedel, JD
Professor and Vice-President, University of Manheim Germany, Member UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Christopher R. Rossi Ph.D., LL.M., J.D. Visiting lecturer in international law, University of Iowa College of Law and Executive Director of Humanities Iowa, the state affiliate to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Leonard Rubenstein, JD
Executive Director Physicians for Human Rights, Washington, DC.

Clyde Lanford "Lanny" Smith, MD, MPH
Director Doctors for Global Health, Bronx N.Y.

Brooke Schoeph, PhD.
Medical Anthropologist, Harvard University

Victor Sidel MD, Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York

Katarina Tomasevski Ph.D., UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education.

Judyth Twigg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University.

David Werner, PhD.
Facilitator Project Piaxtla, western Mexico

Owens Wiwa, MD
Research Coordinator for Culture, Communities and Health Studies, Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto Canada, representative MOSOP, Canada.

Program Features:
·Global Health Rights Expo- Book Sale, Exhibits, Literature tables & posters displaying the diversity of research, issues, and programs to advance global health rights; If you or your organization would like to organize a display or poster in the exhibit hall please contact Dorothy Paul or Anne West at the UI Center for Human Rights: uichr@uiowa.edu.
·Video Lab-view the latest educational videos addressing the human right to health globally; ·Networking during banquets and reception with hundreds of colleagues and students involved in global health rights field.

The University of Iowa prohibits discrimination in employment or in its education programs and activities on the basis of race, national origin, creed, religion, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or associational preference. The University also affirms its commitment to providing equal opportunities and equal access to University facilities. For additional information on nondiscrimination policies, contact the Coordinator of title IX, Section 504, and the ADA in the Office of Affirmative Action, (319) 335-0697 (text), 202 Jessup Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1316.

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Violence: Shredding Social Fabrics, Destroying Global Health

April  14-16, 2000

2nd Floor Ballroom, Iowa Memorial Union
The University of Iowa

1. be able to recognize the many hidden forms of domestic violence at home and abroad,
2. be able to identify at least 5 categories of dangerous worker situations often overlooked in national labor statistics,
3. be able to discuss the significance of social co-factors in promoting situations of domestic and workplace violence,
4. be able to discuss the importance of regional and international weapons development and trade on promoting and sustaining situations of domestic, workplace, and international violence,
5. be able to access at least 10 different local and regional educational and academic programs and NGOs working to identify, respond to and end domestic, workplace, and international violence.
   

Fees:

Academic Credit:

UI students may receive one semester hour of credit for full participation   in the conference (including meals) and completion of a short written assignment by registering for Global Health Conference, course number 152:152.  To receive conference course-pacs (needed to complete the assignment) and information about the assignment, students must attend a short pre-conference meeting in Room 282 (Moot Court Room) at the International Center on April 5th, 2000 at 4:30 pm.  Mark your schedules!  It is your responsibility to obtain the needed information.

Physicians and Physician Assistants:  this activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of iowa college of medicine and the University of Iowa International Programs.  the College of medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Iowa College of medicine designates this continuing education activity for 12.5 credit hours in Category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.

The University of Iowa College of Nursing is an Iowa Board of Nursing approved provider, Number 1.  Full-time attendance will award 1.4 CEUs or 14 contact hours.

The University of iowa is an Iowa board of Social Work Examiners approved provider #34.  This program is approved for 1.28 CEUs or 12.75 contact hours upon completion of this conference.

The University of Iowa awards 1.3 General CEUs of 13 contact hours for attendance at this conference.

Conference Program:

Friday afternoon, April 14

12:00 -1:00 pm   Registration - IMU Ballroom

1:00 - 1:45 pm Keynote Address:  Violence and Suffering:  Exposing the Root Causes, Scott Nathanson

2:00 - 3:45 pm Panel 1 :  Workplace Violence:  Reflections from the Home,
Moderator: Lar Fuotes
     a.  When the Workplace is the Home: Violence Against Domestics, Trafficking in Women. 
           Annanya Bhattacharjee
     b.  Structural and Gender Violence in Unregulated Shops.  Deborah Fink
     c.  Children at Work: When Work Becomes Violence, not Training for Responsible Adulthood.   Lar Fuotes

3:45 pm                 Break
4:00 pm                 Breakout Sessions
5:00 pm                 Recess

Saturday Morning, April 15

8:00 am                 Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:15 am   Panel 2
The Many Faces of Global Domestic Violence.  Moderator: Jael Silliman
      a.  Overview Global Domestic Violence. Dorothy Counts 
      b.  Shroud of Silence. Film detailing the lives of Afghan women.
      c.  Case Studies: Gender Violence in India. Anne Hardgrove, Nigerian Women Divided. Chi Okafor
      d.  The Invisibles: Elders, People with Disabilities, Gays and Lesbians, TBA

10:15 - 10:30 am   Break

10:30 - 12:15 pm Panel 3
Marketing Dangerous Products: The Violent Intersections of Money, Drugs, Alcohol and Weapons.
Moderator: Rex Honey
      a.  The Violence of Alcohol Promotion, Impact on Domestic Violence,  Mac Marshall
     b.  Drugs, Military, and Police Violence. ? Tom Cardamone?
      c.  Never-ending Costs:  Medical, Psychological, and Social. Jeremy Brigham

12:15 - 1:00 pm     Breakout Sessions

1:00 pm                   Lunch - Triangle Ballroom

2:15 - 4:00 pm    Panel 4
Promoting Cultures of Violence -- Conflict as Status Quo
Moderator: Maureen McCue
       a.  Small Arms Trade:  The Changed Face of Conflict. (TBA).
       b.  NGO's: Promoting or Exposing the Dangerous Domestic Front. Dorothy Counts   
       c.  Global Military Industrial Complex:  How Violence Begets Violence. Kevin Carlson

4:00 pm                   Break

4:30 - 5:30 pm        Breakout Sessions

5:30 - 9:00 pm  Reception and Dinner
Movie: Salaam Bombay-- Jael Silliman will lead discussion.

Sunday Morning, April 16

8:30 am                   Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:45 am    Panel 5
Relearning Peace, Developing Healthy Communities.
Moderator: John Lundell
       a.  Skills for Mediation and Conflict Resolution:  Starting in School. Susan Koch
       b.  Building Peaceful Communities: Women's Centers as Models.  Susan Murty
       c.  Building Peaceful Communities. Chi Okafor
       d.  Resisting Policies of Death:  Global Activists and Activities. Jeremy Brigham
       e.  Summarize:  Think Globally, Act Locally. Jim Merchant

Annanya Battacharje
Revson Fellow Columbia University
New York, NY

Jeremy Brigham, Ph.D.
Iowan's Against Gun Violence
Cedar Rapids, IA

Dorothy Counts, Ph.D.
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Deborah Fink, Ph.D.
Anthropology, Iowa State University
Ames, IA

Susan Koch
Vice President Academic Affairs
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA

Chi Okafor, R.N., Ph.D.
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA

Melanie Dreher, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Nursing

Laurence Fuortes, M.D.
Associate Professor,
Occupational and Enviromental Health

Anne Hardgrove, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, History

Rex Honey, Ph.D.
Associated Professor, Geography
Director of Global Health studies

John Lundell
Deputy Director, Injury Prevention Research Center

Mac Marshall, Ph.D.
Professor, Anthropology

Maureen McCue, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Global Health Studies Program

James Merchant, M.D., Dr. P.H.
Dean, College of Public Health

Susan Murty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Social Work

Jael Silliman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Women Studies

The conference is divided up into five panels, each panel covering a specific topic.  Time for questions and discussion will be provided.  There will be four break-out sessions, during which participants and speakers will split up into smaller groups to facilitate further discussion on topics of interest to students and other participants.

Coffebreaks and meals will be periods where students and other participants can engage speakers in more discussion.

The conference will also be sponsoring a book sale with the help of the Union bookstore staff featuring selections relevant to the conference content.

Representatives of various campus will be on hand outside the conference room to inform interested participants of ways they can become involved in activities to end global domestic violence, violent working conditions, and marketing of  dangerous products.

The University of Iowa prohibits discrimination in employment or in its education programs and activities on the basis of race, national origin, creed, religion, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or associational preference. The University also affirms its commitment to providing equal opportunities and equal access to University facilities. For additional information on nondiscrimination policies, contact the Coordinator of title IX, Section 504, and the ADA in the Office of Affirmative Action, (319) 335-0697 (text), 202 Jessup Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1316.

Global Health, Social Justice and Human Rights

Conference summary here.

April 9 - 11, 1999

• Session 1 - Institutionalized Violence: Health and Human Rights of Poor and Minority Peoples
• Session 2 - Economic Justice: A Health and Human Rights Agenda
• Session 3 - Emerging Issues in Human Rights and Health
• Session 4 - Health and Human Rights of Women and Children
• Session 5 - Working for Human Rights with a Health Perspective

Full schedule here.

Kitty Buckwalter, R.N., Ph.D. Associate Provost for Health Sciences
Paul Greenough, Ph.D. Director, Global Health Studies Program, Professor, Department of History
Maureen McCue, M.D., Ph.D.Student Health Physician, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology/Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health
Rita Noonan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Jael Silliman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies Program
Dawn St. George, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Fellow, Global Health Studies Program
Elizabeth Swanson, BSN, Ph.D. Associate Provost for International Programs
Robert Olick, Ph.D. Professor, Biomedical Ethics Program, College of Medicine
Burns Weston, J.D. Professor, College of Law

• Global Health Studies Program
• International Programs
• Center for International Rural and Environmental Health
• College of Medicine
• College of Nursing

Global Outbreak Intervention:
Field Epidemiology and Organized Responses to Infection

April 3 - 5, 1998

Friday (1:00 - 5:00pm)
Saturday (8:30 - 5:00pm)
Sunday (8:30 - 12:00noon)

Gallagan Auditorium
Dental Science Building
University of Iowa