PHA-Exchange> Global Health, Justice and the Brain Drain

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Global Health, Justice and the 'Brain Drain' 

One-day interdisciplinary conference on International Health Worker
Migration 

17th September 2007 Keele University , UK (in association with In-Spire
<http://www.in-spire.org/> ) 

Website: http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/GlobalHealth/
<http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/GlobalHealth/>  

The closing date for submission of abstracts is Friday 22nd June 2007

Keynote Speakers

Professor Thomas Pogge, Columbia University 

Professor Karen Hassell, University of Manchester 

Globalisation and the prospects of international migration bring both
opportunities and challenges. The north-south and south-south 'brain
drain' of skilled labour is induced by and reinforces gross global
inequalities that have been exacerbated by globalisation. International
migration in the healthcare professions threatens health, human rights
and development goals for the world's poor challenging notions that
justice, health systems and migration policies are matters only for
domestic concern. Against this backdrop, this conference is interested
in understanding the 'brain drain' of health workers and its impact on
global health as matters of justice.

 This conference aims to bring together participants from different
academic disciplines, health professions, and practitioner backgrounds
to address questions such as:

*         Should international health worker migration be considered a
matter of global justice? 

*         What does it mean for human rights, particularly the right to
health? 

*         For whom do we seek justice? How should we balance the
competing interests and moral responsibilities of individuals, health
systems, communities and countries? 

*         Can autonomy of movement for the more advantaged be balanced
against justice for the disadvantaged? What does the phenomenon mean for
citizenship? 

*         Does non-active recruitment from poor countries absolve rich
health systems of moral responsibility? 

*         What are the roles of skill-seeking and restricted immigration
policies in a just world? 

*         Do recent national, bilateral and international
awareness-raising activities and policy agreements address concerns of
justice? How do political theories make sense of these moral problems? 

*         What are the implications of the brain drain for international
relations and global security? 

*         To what extent are the impacts of the migration of skills and
(health)care in receiving and sending countries gendered and what can
feminist analyses contribute? 

*         Who has responsibility for this problem, and what can we do
about it? 

Abstracts are welcome on these or any other related questions. They
should be submitted in Word format by 22 nd June 2007. Papers from
postgraduate students are particularly encouraged and limited support
for postgraduate attendance is available (see registration page for
details). 

Abstracts and queries should be sent to Rebecca Shah at
r.shah at keele.ac.uk <mailto:r.shah at keele.ac.uk> 

 


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