The Digital Health and Rights Project Consortium has been meeting regularly online since 2019, discussing and probing questions about human rights, the right to health, decoloniality, intersectionality, and how we can create new knowledge, new mobilization and forms of solidarity in the...
We propose a Foundation Brocher workshop that will convene a variety of stakeholders (patient and patient advocates; academic, and pharmaceutical representatives; government regulators; ethicists, etc.) to discuss the ethics, regulatory, and pragmatic issues in international pediatric clinical trials. We plan...
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 09h00: welcome and introduction 09h10: Abdallah Khadidja, KU Leuven, MSc, PhD student, Health Economics Addressing the global challenges of inequitable, unsustainable and unequal access to orphan drugs for rare diseases 09h30: Dube Karine, University...
Monday, March 06, 2023 09h00: welcome and introduction 09h05: Subramani Supriya, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, Zurich, Dr, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioethics – Medical ethics The Passive Patient: Exploring the Culture of (Dis)respect in Indian Medical...
Tuesday, April 06, 2023 09h00: welcome and introduction 09h05: Cerovac Ivan, University of Rijeka, Doctor of philosophy, Postdoctoral researcher, Political Science John Stuart Mill and Contagious Diseases Acts 09h25: Clark Jocalyn, The Lancet / University of Toronto,...
Oral disease are a neglected area of global health, despite being among the most common ailments of mankind. Following the publication of a ground-breaking series of papers on oral health in The Lancet in July 2019, a Lancet Commission on...
Children and young people (CYP) who come into contact and / or conflict with the law are likely to have a neuro-disability (ND), which is a form of condition of the brain that leads to developmental impairment. The most common...
The nature and complexity of public health emergencies, like the current COVID-19 outbreak, raise a number of distinctive and profound ethical challenges. Yet, despite the existence of a number of authoritative ethics guidance documents and important ethical lessons learned as...
A multidisciplinary approach to endometriosis among transgender and gender diverse community. “TRANSforming endometriosis research” aims to re-centre TGD people in endometriosis research and give voice to patients’ stories regarding this chronic condition as an intersectional experience. One of the...
a)What objects and artefacts did doctors and researchers mobilize at different moments in time to give a visible and tangible reality to diseases whose clinical presentation was complex, multifaceted, and sometimes partially unexplained? b)What relevant methods and approaches allow historians to create meaning from vestiges of diseases of the past? What scientific problems (i.e., ethical, legal, scientific) does the reuse of previous medical samples raise today? The Summer School will be a 5‐day working conference structured around intensive discussion and hands‐ on research activities. It will bring together ...





