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Health Care as basic human right and part of the Universal Global Social Justice scheme. The pandemic shows the tragedy of neoliberal health care politics in those countries with still existing but reduced public health care systems and the inconceivable distress in those countries without functioning public health care. Health care is a basic human right and it has to be organised as Commons and not as market-driven system. This means: A holistic approach to health with good prevention strategies, access for all citizens to services of good standard and qualitative medicine, structuring the system democratic with the participation of medical staff and citizens in decision making processes.
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Moderator: Francine Mestrum
Francine Mestrum holds a PhD in social sciences. Her research concerns social development, poverty, inequality, globalization and gender relations. She is coordinator of Global Social Justice and represents CETRI (Centre Tricontinental) in the International Council of the World Social Forum. She is now involved with the AEPF (Asian European People Forum) in strengthening relations between civil in strengthening relations between civil society organizations on both continents.
Participants:
Gaëlle Krikorian is currently head of policy of the Access Campaign at Medicins Sans Frontière (MSF). She has a PhD in sociology. Her researches concern social movements, globalization, health and technologies. During 4 years she was an advisor on Access to Knowledge and Intellectual Property issues for the Greens at the European Parliament. She is the author of articles about the Commons, Intellectual property issues, Access to medicines, Access to knowledge. She co-edited a book on social mobilizations in this field: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (Zone Books Eds: New York).
Hani Serag is a physician a public health researcher. He used to be Global coordinator of the People's health Movement. Is based in Cairo.
His previous work includes serving as global coordinator of the People's Health Movement (PHM is a global network of civil society organizations, academic institutes and health activists) and as the director of Health Policy and Systems Program of the Association Health and Environmental Development (a leading civil society organizations in Egypt). Dr. Serag has participated in designing and setting methodologies for several research projects (including surveys at national levels and comparative studies across countries). He has been involved in a wide range of educational and training activities in both the public and global health fields. He has planned, developed curricula for, and taught more than 30 training courses. Most of these courses target public health practitioners, especially from the nonprofit sector, and focus on health system research (regional and national training courses) and global health (on regional and global levels). He is also an experienced leader in fundraising and resource mobilization.
Amulya Nidhi is a public health expert working to bring existing public health services to the poor and vulnerable patients from the tribal and rural hinterland of Madhya Pradesh. He is a key member in the struggle of the victims to address rampant prevalence of silicosis among the migrant tribal labour of western Madhya Pradesh. He has been involved in extensive judicial, policy and grassroot activism to make state machinery accountable through formulating state level silicosis policies, and compensation and rehabilitation of the victims.Through ‘Swasthya Adhikar Manch’ he has successfully spearheaded a campaign against unethical clinical trial by collecting and advocating evidences from Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and have been instrumental in making new acts and rules for ethical clinical trials in India.Amulya Nidhi is a National Co convenor of People's Health Movement, India (PHM) or Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA)
Health Care as basic human right and part of the Universal Global Social Justice scheme. The pandemic shows the tragedy of neoliberal health care politics in those countries with still existing but reduced public health care systems and the inconceivable distress in those countries without functioning public health care. Health care is a basic human right and it has to be organised as Commons and not as market-driven system. This means: A holistic approach to health with good prevention strategies, access for all citizens to services of good standard and qualitative medicine, structuring the system democratic with the participation of medical staff and citizens in decision making processes.
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Moderator: Francine Mestrum
Francine Mestrum holds a PhD in social sciences. Her research concerns social development, poverty, inequality, globalization and gender relations. She is coordinator of Global Social Justice and represents CETRI (Centre Tricontinental) in the International Council of the World Social Forum. She is now involved with the AEPF (Asian European People Forum) in strengthening relations between civil in strengthening relations between civil society organizations on both continents.
Participants:
Gaëlle Krikorian is currently head of policy of the Access Campaign at Medicins Sans Frontière (MSF). She has a PhD in sociology. Her researches concern social movements, globalization, health and technologies. During 4 years she was an advisor on Access to Knowledge and Intellectual Property issues for the Greens at the European Parliament. She is the author of articles about the Commons, Intellectual property issues, Access to medicines, Access to knowledge. She co-edited a book on social mobilizations in this field: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (Zone Books Eds: New York).
Hani Serag is a physician a public health researcher. He used to be Global coordinator of the People's health Movement. Is based in Cairo.
His previous work includes serving as global coordinator of the People's Health Movement (PHM is a global network of civil society organizations, academic institutes and health activists) and as the director of Health Policy and Systems Program of the Association Health and Environmental Development (a leading civil society organizations in Egypt). Dr. Serag has participated in designing and setting methodologies for several research projects (including surveys at national levels and comparative studies across countries). He has been involved in a wide range of educational and training activities in both the public and global health fields. He has planned, developed curricula for, and taught more than 30 training courses. Most of these courses target public health practitioners, especially from the nonprofit sector, and focus on health system research (regional and national training courses) and global health (on regional and global levels). He is also an experienced leader in fundraising and resource mobilization.
Amulya Nidhi is a public health expert working to bring existing public health services to the poor and vulnerable patients from the tribal and rural hinterland of Madhya Pradesh. He is a key member in the struggle of the victims to address rampant prevalence of silicosis among the migrant tribal labour of western Madhya Pradesh. He has been involved in extensive judicial, policy and grassroot activism to make state machinery accountable through formulating state level silicosis policies, and compensation and rehabilitation of the victims.Through ‘Swasthya Adhikar Manch’ he has successfully spearheaded a campaign against unethical clinical trial by collecting and advocating evidences from Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and have been instrumental in making new acts and rules for ethical clinical trials in India.Amulya Nidhi is a National Co convenor of People's Health Movement, India (PHM) or Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA)
