Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum, Seoul, South Korea - 18-21 October 2016

Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum

With the rapid growth of global healthcare market, many social, ethical, and legal issues around this trend have emerged. However, scholars and experts around the world have few chances to talk with each other and develop ideas and solutions for global health issues. The goal of this forum is to develop academic insight and theoretical frameworks related to medical travel. This forum intends to be a sustainable platform for knowledge sharing of scholars and experts in global healthcare field.   

Host

Yonsei Institute of Health and Welfare

Organizing Committee

Ki Nam Jin (Yonsei University, South Korea)

Neil Lunt (University of York, UK)

Meghann Ormond (Wageningen University and Research, The Nethelands)

Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum - Part I
18-19 October 2016, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

18 October 2016, Tuesday
9:00 – 9:30	Registration
9:30 – 10:00	Opening Ceremony
	Jin, Ki Nam, Professor of Health Administration, Yonsei University
10:00 – 12:20	Session1 | Policy & Governance Issues
Chairperson	Jin, Ki Nam Professor of Health Administration, Yonsei University
10:00 – 10:30	Resistance and the governance of international medical travel
	Meghann Ormond, Cultural Geography, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
10:30 – 11:00	US healthcare in a global context: Roles and motivations of providers and the state
	Andrew N. Garman, Dept of Health System Management, Rush University, US
11:00 – 11:20	Tea/Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:50	The Governance of medical travel in Japan
	Mika Toyota, Dept of Culture and Tourism Studies, Rikkyo University, Japan
11:50 – 12:20	Cross-border patient mobility in the Greater China region: Emerging issues and health policy implications
	Alex Jingwei He, Dept of Asian and Policy Studies, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
12:20 – 13:40	Lunch (Hosted by Korea Tourism Organization)
13:40 – 16:00	Session2 | Asian Experiences & Issues
Chairperson	Valorie A. Crooks Dept of Geograghy, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
13:40 – 14:10	Medical tourism in Korea: Current Status and Future Plans
	Lee, In Sook, Deputy director of Medical Wellness Tourism Team, Korea Tourism Organization
14:10 – 14:40	Recent trend of Japanese government policy on medical tourism
	Serina Okamura, Dept of Health Service Management, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan
14:40 – 15:00	Tea/Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:30	Beyond medical travel: The SingaporeMedicine experience
	Jason CH Yap, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
15:30 – 16:00	Staying relevant: The Malaysia healthcare travel story
	Sherene Azli, CEO, Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council, Malaysia
16:00 – 17:00	Wrap-up Session
	Jin, Ki Nam, Professor of Health Administration, Yonsei University Valorie A. Crooks, Dept of Geograghy, Simon Fraser University, Canada Meghann Ormond, Cultural Geography, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands Tricia Johnson, Dept of Health System Management, Rush University, US

Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum - Part II
21 October 2016, Medical Korea 2016, Coex, Seoul, South Korea

Session 6. Global Healthcare Policy & Management Forum 10:00~17:00, Chrysanthemum Room
Time	Subjects & Speakers
10:00-10:10	Opening remark
10:10-10:40	Analysis of the competitiveness of Korea in global healthcare market  Ki-Nam Jin / Professor, Dept. of Health Administration of Yonsei University, Korea
10:40-11:10	Policy Issues related to the Globalisation of Healthcare  Ingrid Schneider / Professor, Political Science and BIOGUM of University of Hamburg, Germany
11:30-12:10	Development strategy and policy mobility in international medical travel  Meghann Ormond / Assistant Professor, Cultural Geography of Wageningen University and Research, Netherland
12:10-12:30	Q&A
12:30-13:25	Break Time
13:25-13:40	Currency exchange rate forecasts for 2017 of the key countries with the most outbound medical tourists  Jungeun Park / Researcher, F/X and Derivatives Sales Department, KEB Hana Bank, Korea
13:40-14:10	The role of "online" in medical tourism  Keith Pollard / Managing Editor, Intuition Communication Ltd, UK
14:10-14:40	Medical versus Wellness?  - status and outlook of the wellness tourism at the example Germany  Lutz Lungwitz / President, German Medical Wellness Association, Germany
14:40-15:10	The business of medical tourism: Building a brand in a competitive world  Ilan Geva / President, Ilan GEVA & FRIENDS, USA
15:10-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-16:00	How destination "Brand" drives choice in medical travel  Irving L. Stackpole / President, Stackpole & Associates, Inc., USA
16:00-16:30	Service excellence - the value of nonclinical services for International patients  Diala Atassi / Manager of Operations, International Programs Department of University of Chicago Medicine, USA
16:30-17:00	Q&A

New book: Public Health and Private Wealth (S. Hodges and M. Rao, eds.)

Public Health and Private Wealth: Stem Cells, Surrogates, and Other Strategic Bodies 
Edited by Sarah Hodges and Mohan Rao, 2016, Oxford University Press

Website: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/public-health-and-private-wealth-9780199463374?cc=nl&lang=en&  

• Presents a novel approach to the politics of health in modern India;

• Cuts across studies of development and demography, research laboratories and the rural and urban poor;

• Transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, combining the methodologies of anthropologists, sociologists, health economists, science studies scholars and historians

Poverty whether as drain theory at the start of the twentieth century or through garibi hatao towards the end of those 100 yearswas the predominant economic, political, and social paradigm within which late colonial, nationalist and post-independence era science policy was constructed. Whether as critics of Indias poverty, or as architects of measures for its eradication, Indias commentators called on a broad framework of science both to diagnose and treat poverty. Yet, when we think of science in India today, this earlier priority of poverty eradication is now hard to find. Poverty eradication as a goal in itself seems to have fallen off Indias scientific agenda almost entirely. What accounts for this? This volume asks: Has the problem of poverty in India been solved? Or, has it become inconvenient alongside the rise of new narratives that frame India as a site of remarkable economic growth? Indeed, has there been a loss of faith in the ability of science to tackle poverty? Together, the essays in this volume explore the broader implications for the new role of science in India: as a driver of economic growth for India, rather than as a solution to the persistence of poverty.