Global Health Law in Times of Poly-Crisis: Key Challenges and Principles for the Field in Trying Times

The Groningen Centre for Health Law is delighted invite you to the Opening Key Note Panel Discussion of the Global Health Law Consortium meeting, taking place on 8 December in the Senaatszaal, Academy Building.

Global Health Law is currently going through a time of poly-crisis. Coming through the Covid-19 Crisis, international society is facing a range of other interconnected global health challenges that need to be faced. This includes preparing for a next pandemic, climate change and breach of other planetary boundaries, increases in non-communicable diseases and the AI revolution. Whereas the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for a global and integrated approach to tacking global health challenges, the field simultaneously deals with a lack of cooperation efforts, exemplified by the withdrawal of the US from the WHO. 

This Key Note Panel Discussion reflects on contemporary challenges and ways forward. The Panel Discussion opens the annual meeting of the Global Health Law Consortium. The Consortium is a global network of leading experts in Global Health Law that takes place in Groningen this year as part of the 10th anniversary of the Groningen Centre for Health Law. 

Programme

09.30-10.00 Welcoming the Consortium and Celebrating 10 Years Groningen Centre of Health Law

• Welcome Dean of Faculty of Law, Wilbert Kolkman 
• Welcome by Prof. Stéphanie Dagron – Chair of Global Health Law Consortium
• Welcome: Celebrating 10 Years GCHL and Setting the Scene for Global Health Law Consortium Meeting, Dr. Marlies Hesselman

10.00-12.00 Key Note Panel Discussion: Global Health Law in Times of Poly-Crisis: Key Challenges and Principles for the Field in Trying Times 

Moderators: Marlies Hesselman and Stéphanie Dagron

• Sharifah Sekalala, professor of global health law, University of Warwick
• Benjamin Mason Meier, professor of global health policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Tsung-Ling Lee, professor of law at the Graduate Institute of Health and Biotechnology Law, Taipai Medial University
• Gian Luca Burci, professor of global health law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and former Legal Counsel of the World Health Organisation

(Short Opening Statements Followed By Q&A with Moderators and Audience)

About the Groningen Centre for Health Law

The Groningen Centre for Health Law (GCHL) engages with law as it informs the underlying determinants of health. In our research and teaching, we analyze the role of human rights and the right to health in addressing access to quality healthcare services as well as disease prevention and health promotion.

Target Group

 We encourage students, scholars, PhD students, legal practitioners, policymakers, public health experts, advocates, and every one else with an interest in global health law to attend this event.

Contact

Please email Tessa Jager (t.j.jager rug.nl) if you have any questions about this Key Note Panel Discussion.