Events

2012 National Health Law Conference

Date(s): May 4, 2012 - May 5, 2012
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Time: 8:30 AM - 4:45 PM
Location: Metropolitan Hotel
108 Chestnut Street
Toronto, Ontario

2012 National Health Law Conference:
Global Health Challenges & the Role of Law

May 4 & 5, 2012

Toronto, Canada

Conference poster (PDF)

Preliminary Conference Program (PDF)

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This conference will bring together leading scholars, policy-makers, practicing lawyers and health care professionals to explore how law can address global health challenges and make real progressive change.

The kinds of global challenges participants will explore include:

  • Access to care and essential medicines on the part of the most vulnerable (poor, mentally ill, aboriginal populations)
  • The rise and inequitable impact of medical tourism
  • The spread of chronic diseases around the world
  • Exponential increases in smoking in many countries
  • The obesity epidemic and so forth…

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