May 4 & 5, 2012

Register before March 14, 2012 to take advantage of our reduced rate!
Register online at: http://nhlc2012.ca

This international conference will bring together leading scholars, policy-makers, lawyers, physicians and other health care professionals to explore how law can address global health challenges and make real progressive change.

Participants will discuss and explore answers to these global health challenges:

• How can we improve global access to care and essential medicines on the part of the most vulnerable – can law make a substantive change?
• Can we regulate to ensure fair access to health and health care given the global rise of medical tourism, global trade and assisted reproductive technologies?
• What impact can law make in addressing the global spread of chronic diseases and the rise, for example, of the obesity epidemic?
• In the legal world we think we can meet global health challenges through law and litigation, but to what extent is that true and what are the context and circumstances where law/litigation can really make a positive difference in improving global welfare?

The 2012 conference will feature a stellar line-up of international experts/speakers and a keynote panel debate on: "Can Law Meet Global Health Challenges? Perspectives from Medicine and Politics"

Abdallah S. Daar, Senior Scientist, Sandra Rotman Centre & Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Theodore R. Marmor, Health Care Policy, Politics and Law Expert, Yale University
Michael Ignatieff, Former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada; Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto
James Orbinski, Chair and Professor in Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Co-Director, Global Health Diplomacy Program, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and former President of the International Council of Médecins Sans Frontières

The conference will feature a Keynote Public Lecture: “Creaky Policies in Nanotime: How will Health Care Systems Cope with Global Age” with Prof. James Morone from Brown University.

The Conference is organized by the CIHR Training Program in Health Law, Ethics & Policy and the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto in collaboration with the Faculté de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke; the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta; and the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. For more information about the conference, please email:info@healthlawtraining.ca or call 416.978.3724.