The following list includes confirmed speakers to date (as of February 2002).
As speaking times are confirmed we will be updating the schedule also posted on this
website.
MSS Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Director of the Harvard
Medical School's Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change and co-founder of
Partners in Health. “Globalization and Social Responsibility in the Time of
Aids”
Other speakers/panel members:
- Dr. Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Department of Social Studies of Medicine &
McGill Aids Centre, McGill University. “The biopolitics of HIV and access to
treatment in developing countries”
- Dr. Heather Onyett, Queen’s University, “International
Maternal and Child Health Priorities”
- Helene Thibault, CSIH, “Health as a Bridge for Peace”
- Dr. Doug Gruner, International Red Cross, Child Health in East Timor
- Dr. Kevin Chan, Pediatrician, Co-chair of the Canadian Society for
International Health and President of the International Child Health Section of the
Canadian Paediatric Society
- Rebecca Ho-Foster, Mines Action Canada, “Landmines: a weapon of
mass destruction in slow motion”
- Dr. Brian Ward, Director, National Centre for Parasitology &
Assistant Director, McGill Centre for Tropical Diseases, McGill University “Health
issues in immigrants and refugees”
- Julie Laplante, MSF, “Savoirs, pouvoirs et médecines; de
l'humanitaire (MSF) aux populations autochtones amazoniennes"
- Dr. Myron Echenberg, Dept. of History, McGill, “The Colonial
Legacy of Health in Africa”
- Dr. Amir Khadir, “Humanitarian Action: Politics, Charity or Solidarity?”
- Dr. Terri Peterson, McGill Biomedical Ethics Unit,
- Dr. Micheal Dworkind, Physicians for Global Survival,
“International Physicians Movement for Peace.”
- Mr. Mitchell Goldberg, Lawyer and Co-Chair of the Inland Protection
Working Group of the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR), Panel Member
- Dr. Pierre Dongier, Panel Member
- Mr. Samir Hussain and Ms. Naghmeh Rowhani, McGill Medicine Class of
2003 "Canada's Indigenous Population: A Glimpse Into the Struggle of Native People in
Northwestern Ontario”
Also: student health elective presentations, poster presentations and
documentaries will run throughout the weekend.
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