idw – Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
idw - Informationsdienst
Wissenschaft
12/01/2010 - 12/01/2010 | Berlin
Health and access to health care is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. In the last decades in many parts of the world, overall health has improved. However, health levels have now stagnated and are even declining due to new forms of poverty, environmental problems, and political instability. This does not only affect populations in the Global South, but also marginalized groups in the industrialized world. The 13th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality want to investigate fault lines, critical developments, and new chances for today’s global health system. The evening lectures will focus on the role of the pharmaceutical industries and new options for democratic access to necessary medication for the world’s poor.
Helen Epstein
Global Health after the Cold War
The industrialized world spent some $21 billion on global health programs in 2007, twice as much as in 2000, and four times as much as in 1990. This is good news for the billions of people whose lives are threatened by AIDS, malaria and other scourges of the developing world. However, it’s worth asking whether pharmaceutical, medical supply and other industries aren’t beginning to exert undue influence over how some of this money is spent. Helen Epstein, author and consultant, will describe conflicts of interest in international health and speculate about whether the recent spate of such cases may be at least partly traceable to shifting international development priorities since the end of the Cold War.
Helen Epstein is an independent consultant and writer specializing in public health in developing countries. Her articles have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Granta Magazine and other publications. Her research interests include the right to health care in developing countries and the relationship between poverty and health in industrialized countries. In 1993 Epstein moved to Uganda in search of an AIDS vaccine. In her acclaimed book The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) she discusses 15 years of observing both the epidemic and the reactions to it of Western scientists, humanitarian agencies, and the communities most affected by AIDS deaths.
Lectures will be followed by discussion and a
reception.
All lectures are held in English.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
12/01/2010 18:00 - 12/01/2010 20:00
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Room A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Nutrition / healthcare / nursing, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
11/12/2010
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event33316
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