The Globalization of Health Care

This is a past event

Legal and Ethical Challenges

Conference Description

The increasing globalization of health care and its inputs provides new challenges for health law and bioethics. This conference brought together leading scholars and policy-makers to discuss several overlapping and diverging instances of this globalization, to try and develop new strategies and paradigms to approach these issues. Comprised of six panels over the course of two days, the event spurred provocative, engaging discussions.

UPDATE: For more on this issue, see I. Glenn Cohen’s edited volume The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, published by Oxford University Press in March 2013.

Conference Schedule

Friday, May 20, 2011

8:00 – 8:30am: Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45am: Opening Remarks

8:45 – 10:30am: Medical Tourism One: Services Legal in Home and Destination Countries

10:45 – 12:30pm: Medical Tourism Two: Services Illegal or Unavailable in Home Country

12:30 – 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00 – 3:45pm: Research and Development / Telemedicine

4:00- 6:30pm: Medical Worker Migration

6:30pm: Panelist Dinner

Saturday, May 21, 2011

9:00 – 9:30am: Continental Breakfast

9:30 – 11:00am: Health Care Globalization and Equity

11:00 – 12:30pm: Transplant Tourism is Different than Medical Tourism

12:30pm: Conference Close