New conference: The Globalization of Health Care - HLS

The Globalization of Health Care:

Legal and Ethical Challenges

A Conference at Harvard Law School

May 20-21, 2011

For further information about this event: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom/events/globalization.html

Schedule Outline
Medical Tourism I: Services Legal in Home and Destination Countries

• Cross-Border Care in Post- Reform America
• Nathan Cortez
• Jurisdiction 101 for Medical Tourism Purchases Made in Europe
• Tom McLean
• Patients’ and Bioethicists’ Perceptions of the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Lessons from Canadian Medical Tourists
• Jeremy Snyder
• Bioethics, Transnational Medical Travel & the Global Health Services Marketplace
• Leigh Turner
• Current Legislation on Cross-Border Healthcare in the European Union
• Hilko J. Meyer

Medical Tourism II: Services Illegal or Unavailable in Home Country

• Medical Outlaws or Medical Refugees?: Medical Tourism and the Extraterritorial Application of Domestic Criminal Law
• I. Glenn Cohen
• Welcome to the Wild West: Protecting Access to U.S. Based Fertility Treatment for Reproductive Tourists
• Kimberly Mutcherson
• The Proportionality Problem in Cross-border Reproductive Care
• Richard Storrow
• The Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Patients' Decisions about Unproven Stem Cell Therapies
• Aaron Levine & Leslie Wolf
• Tourism: A matter of Life and Death in the UK
• Hazel Biggs & Caroline Jones

Research and Development/ Telemedicine

• Promoting Access to Clinical Trials Data and the Right to Health
• Trudo Lemmens
• Attributing Violations of the Prohibition on Nonconsensual Human Experimentation to the State: Questions from Abdullahi v. Pfizer
• Bethany Spielman
• The Global Politics of Influenza Vaccine Sharing
• Robert Gatter
• Globalization of Health Care in the Information Technology Era – Opportunities and Legal Challenges
• Gil Siegal
• Legal Barriers to Telemedicine in the United States: Their Constitutionality and the Role of Arbitration in the Context of Health Care Reform
• Amar Gupta & Deth Sao

Medical Worker Migration

• Ethical Challenges and Policy Options in the Recruitment of Internationally Trained Health Human Resources
• Vivien Runnels, Corinne Packer
• Permissible Ways of Managing the Labor Allocation of Medical Workers
• Lucas Stanczyk
• Conditioning Medical Scholarships on Long, Future Service: A Defense
• Nir Eyal &Till Bärnighausen
• WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel
• Allyn Taylor

Health Care Globalization and Equity

• Global Health Justice
• Jennifer Prah-Ruger
• Global Health Care is Not Global Health: Populations, Inequities, and Law as a Social Determinant of Health
• Daniel Goldberg
• Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicine: The Special Case of Antibiotics In The Health Impact Fund
• Kevin Outterson
• Global Duties and the Sanctity of Life
• Pavlos Eleftheriadis
• Beyond Patents: The Impact of Patent-Related Rights on Global Access to Medicine
• Cynthia Ho

A Discussion on Organ Transplantation: Transplant Tourism is Different than Medical Tourism

• Alexander Capron
• Francis L. Delmonico
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes
• Daniel Wikler