Academic conferences dedicated to international medical travel

Academic conferences on international medical travel and 'medical tourism':

• Postgraduate Forum on Medical Tourism, York Management School, University of York, 8 Sept. 2011. Organised by Dr Neil Lunt.
  
• The Globalisation of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges, Harvard Law School, 20-21 May 2011. Videos from panel discussions entitled 'Services legal in home and destination countries' and 'Services illegal or unavailable in home countries' are available on the conference website.
• 2011 Medical Tourism Research Conference, Washington, D.C., 23-25 Feb. 2011. Programme available on the conference website.
• Bodies Across Borders: The Global Circulation of Body Parts, Medical Tourists and Medical Professionals, Fondation Brocher, Geneva, 15-17 Dec. 2010. Programme available on the conference website.
  
• 2010 Medical Tourism Research Conference. Programme available on the conference website.
• Transnational Mobilities for Care: State, Market and Family Dynamics in Asia, National University of Singapore, 10-11 Sept. 2009. Click for programme and abstracts.
  

Planet Hospital's Diaspora project

It is unclear whether Planet Hospital's pilot project 'Diaspora' was fully launched in 2010. Only a few articles exist online that talk about it - and only in the future tense:

• 'US reforms may boost medical tourism', by Mohammed Cohen for Asia Times Online, 30 March 2010
• 'US medical outsourcing firm to tap Philippine market' by INQUIRER.net, 21 November 2007 - republished by National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines on 12 May 2010
• 'Medical tourism to get boost next year' by Philippine Star, 21 November 2007 - republished by National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines on 12 May 2010

The project appears to have first chosen to focus on Mexicans living in the US, though articles suggest that El Salvadoreans were initially meant to be the first test-subjects for this global accident insurance policy that covers emergency care in the US and non-emergency care back in migrants' countries of origin (it doesn't cover pre-existing conditions -- but it also won't deny coverage based on pre-existings). Filipinos living in the US also appear to have been on the list of prospective groups to cover in the future.