Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health by Comparative Program on Health and Society

There is growing recognition of the need to advance the social determinants of health as a question of human rights and social justice. But what do human rights norms, strategies, and actors offer in advancing discourse and practice around health equity? Join the Comparative Program on Health and Society as we bring together some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners to explore these questions at an international symposium. Speakers include: Sofia Gruskin, Director, Program on Global Health & Human Rights, Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Gould School of Law, University of Southern California, USA Moses Mulumba, Executive Director, Center for Health, Human Rights, and Development, Uganda Audrey Chapman, Professor, Community Medicine and Health Care, UConn Health Center Auxiliary/Joseph M. Healey, Jr. Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Division of Public Health Law & Ethics Veronica Magar, Team Leader, Gender, Equity and Human Rights Mainstreaming Team, World Health Organisation, Switzerland Kwame McKenzie, CEO, Wellesley Institute, Canada Walter Flores, Director, Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en Sistemas de Salud (Center for the Study of Equity and Governance in Health Systems), Guatemala Suzanne Stewart, Director, Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada Bruce Porter, Executive Director, Social Rights Advocacy Center, Canada Octavio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Reader in Transnational Law, King's College London, United Kingdom