PHA-Exchange> Call for Abstracts- HR-based approaches
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From: "Christine Schweidler" <cschweid at sas.upenn.edu>
*Lessons Learned from Rights Based Approaches to Health*
Emory University Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA - April 14-16,
2005
*http://humanrights.emory.edu <http://humanrights.emory.edu/>*
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*_ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: _**_SEPTEMBER 30, 2004_**__*
*_Conference Announcement_*
The Institute of Human Rights of Emory University, in collaboration with
CARE, the Carter Center human rights office, the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Doctors for Global Health,
proudly announce an international conference on health and human rights.
Titled, /Lessons Learned from Rights Based Approaches to Health/, the
conference will explore evidence-based relationships between health and
human rights. Featured speakers include former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Paul
Hunt, along with other leaders in the fields of health and human rights.
_Conference Background_
The highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental
rights of every human being, incorporated in Article 12 in the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Poverty,
inequity, civil conflict, discrimination and violence are all factors in
denial of the basic rights of individuals and groups - and also
constitute significant barriers to their achievement of health and
well-being. Scholars and practitioners in the growing field of health
and human rights recognize three main areas of theory and practice
which, when applied to policy and programs in the field, can result in
"advancing human well-being beyond what could be achieved through an
isolated health or human rights-based approach."[1]
<mhtml:mid://00000070/#_ftn1> These three major linkages between health
and human rights are: (a) the impact, both positive and negative, of
public health policies and practice on human rights, (b) the recognition
and assessment of the impact of human rights violations on health and
well-being, and (c) the proposition that the promotion and protection of
health is fundamentally linked to the promotion and protection of human
rights.[2] <mhtml:mid://00000070/#_ftn2> Abstracts about other explicit
linkages between health and human rights are encouraged as well.
In embracing a rights-based approach to development programming,
conference partner organizations are committed to using theoretical
frameworks and practical experiences from the health and human rights
field to strengthen the effectiveness of our own health interventions.
The host organizations' portfolio of programs includes interventions in
social determinants of health, HIV/AIDS, economic development and
globalization, children's health, reproductive health, mental health,
infectious disease, violence, and refugee and internally displaced
populations in more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin
America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. In taking a rights-based
approach to design and implementation of programs, sponsoring and
participating organizations and individuals have the potential to make a
substantive contribution to the growing body of practical work in
rights-based approaches to health.
In order to advance the dialogue among public health and human rights
practitioners, activists and scholars, a group of Atlanta-based
organizations have joined together to organize and sponsor the
International Conference on Health and Human Rights. Along with the
sponsor and co-sponsors of the conference, the François-Xavier Bagnoud
Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the Health
and Human Rights Strategy Unit within the Office of the Director of the
World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva have indicated their support
and enthusiasm for the conference.
*_Goals_*
The conference will focus on examples of successful and promising
rights-based health programming, research, and advocacy. Conference
plenary, panel and roundtable sessions will emphasize linkages between
human rights theory and health practice. Specific conference goals include:
* Sharing evidence-based models of rights based approaches to
health, with a special emphasis on case studies and field examples
* Building awareness on and capacity for rights based approaches to
health programming
* Facilitating networking and collaborating opportunities among
professionals
* Advancing rights based health agendas from basic awareness to
evidence-based practice
*_Participants_*
The primary audience for the conference will include public health and
development professionals who have, at minimum, a basic understanding of
relationships between health and human rights. The conference
proceedings will benefit middle and senior level program managers, as
well as community level practitioners, from the public, non-governmental
and private sectors.
_Conference Sessions _
/Plenary Sessions/
Keynote speakers will address program participants. Each plenary session
will last 90 minutes.
/Panel Sessions/
Submitted abstracts will be grouped into panel sessions, according to
topic. Approximately 3-4 people will make up each panel and will be
facilitated by a moderator. Each panel session will run for 90 minutes.
/Roundtable Sessions/
Presenters will sit with group participants to discuss specific topics
of lessons-learned in rights based approaches to health. Each roundtable
session will run for 90 minutes.
/Poster Sessions/
Each presenter will be provided with a space of 4 x 3 feet (122 x 92 cm)
to display his or her poster presentation. The presenter will need to be
at the poster site to speak with participants during the 90-minute
poster session.
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*_Call for Abstracts_*
Conference cosponsors are pleased to invite individuals to submit
abstracts within the conference theme of /Lessons/ /Learned from Rights
Based Approaches to Health/. Each proposal must explicitly outline its
relevance to health, to human rights, and to the interrelationship
between the topics. Although evidence-based lessons learned (i.e. case
studies and field examples) are of particular interest to the selection
committee, a diverse array of abstracts will be accepted for
presentation. Examples of acceptable abstracts include research and
program frameworks, assessment strategies, methodologies, curricula and
evaluation programs.
*_Conference Topics_*
The conference panels will be organized around the following health
topics. When submitting your abstract proposal, please specify which of
the following topics it fits within:
Children's Health
Conflict & War
Economic Development & Globalization
Education
HIV/AIDS
Humanitarian Aid
Infectious Disease
Mental Health
Nutrition
Poverty & Other Social Determinants of Health
Racism & Other Systems of Injustice
Refugee & Internally Displaced Populations
Reparations for Human Rights Abuses
Sexual & Gender Minorities
Sexual & Reproductive Health
Violence
Water & Sanitation
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[1] <mhtml:mid://00000070/#_ftnref1> Mann, J. M., Gruskin, S., Grodin,
M. A., Annas, G.J., "Health and Human Rights," in Mann /et al/, ed.,
/Health and Human Rights: A Reader/ (New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 11
[2] <mhtml:mid://00000070/#_ftnref2> Mann et al, /Ibid/.
__________________________________
Dabney Evans, MPH, CHES
1525 Clifton Road, Office 108
Rollins School of Public Health
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Phone: 404.727.3061 Fax: 404.727.8768
E-mail: Dabney.Evans at emory.edu <mailto:Dabney.Evans at emory.edu>
Http://humanrights.emory.edu <http://humanrights.emory.edu>
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