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Échange à l’occasion de la présentation de l’ouvrage collectif de Sébastien Farré, Bertrand Taithe et Jean-François Fayet (éd.) L’Humanitaire s’exhibe-Humanitarian exhibition (1867-2016) publié aux éditions Georg. Laboratoires de la complexité politique, diplomatique et sociale du projet humanitaire, les expositions et...

1)  To focus on the goals and roles of host country stakeholders in improving the quality and impact of global health partnerships. 3) To develop a roadmap to align global guidelines (embodied in the Brocher Declaration, www.ghpartnerships.org/brocher) and enforcement efforts...

  LiFE-S (Liquid Fetal Extracorporeal Support) – more popularly known as “artificial womb” technology – has made ectogestation a realistic possibility. This means that we soon may be able to keep alive, outside the maternal body, third (and perhaps late-second)...

ELSI in epigenetics: Indigenous, national and global perspectives. This symposium considers fundamental issues of health justice as they pertain to genetic and epigenetic research, testing and treatment, with a particular focus on pursuing equitable distribution of the burdens and benefits of...

  Human animals are made by, through, and for touch. Biological research demonstrates that humans, like most mammals, enter the world as relational, interdependent beings, entirely reliant on touch for survival and communication. Touch is the first sense to develop...

Government agencies and donors face significant challenges in determining how best to allocate available resources to improve population health, whether through regulations, new programs, or existing programs. Conventional methods of economic assessment, such as benefit-cost analysis (BCA) and cost-effectiveness analysis...

Le premier Prix Brocher a récompensé 3 travaux de Maturité. Il fut décerné le vendredi 1er juillet 2022.   Afin d’encourager la réflexion sur l’impact du développement médical sur la société et contribuer à de nouvelles vocations, la Fondation propose...

  REGARDS D’ECRIVAIN·E·S ET PARCOURS-DECOUVERTE  “25 FEMMES ENGAGEES DANS LA GENEVE HUMANITAIRE  Programme :  Portraits contemporains       Rugby club d’Hermance | Stade Marius Berthet, 170 Chem. des Fernes, 74140 Chens-sur-Léman, France Tennis club d’Hermance | 200 m sur...

Friday, August 5th, 2022   09h30: welcome and introduction   09h40: Hanganu-Bresch Cristina, St. Joseph’s University, United States, Associate Professor, Science and technology studies Food biopolitics: healthism and orthorexia   10h00: Staunton Ciara, Middlesex University, United Kingdom, Senior Lecturer in...

Every child has a unique identity, including birth, name, nationality and family relations (Arts. 7-8 CRC). Without all the information relevant to forming a cohesive identity, children systematically face a range of challenges, which can be of a legal, medical...

Ma santé : mon libre choix ? Cette série des Entretiens Brocher est animée par Bernard Baertschi, Prof. Emeritus, Philosophe, Membre du Comité Scientifique de la Fondation Brocher et de l’Institut Ethique, Histoire et Humanités, Université de Genève & Membre...

Rencontres – La mort : une liberté à inventer Organisées par Uni3 Genève,  le 17 et 18 novembre 2022    L’idée d’un colloque ayant comme thème la mort a été proposée en février 2022 par deux membres du conseil de...

  Nous apprenons avec tristesse le décès de M. Bernard Crettaz que nous avons eu la chance de recevoir le vendredi 18 novembre 2022 lors de la conférence organisée en collaboration avec UNI-3 (Université de Genève) à la Fondation Brocher....

  Decisions concerning the development and use of powerful emerging technologies should be adopted within a human rights framework, and with a holistic and inclusive view. Using a human rights framework brings to the fore principles of transparency, accountability, non-discrimination,...

Hormones as Bio-Social Entities   The overarching aim of the workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary and international group of established and emerging scholars working on the overarching topic of hormones, to exchange ideas and synergise different approaches to...

The International Health Regulations (IHR) set the legal foundation for international cooperation on infectious disease outbreaks. Adopted under the World Health Organization (WHO), the IHR must be implemented with respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons,...

  Humanitarian Fellowship launched by the Brocher Fondation and the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies

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...