Event Date: February 5, 2009 - 12:00 pm
Location: room 4004, 120 University Private,Social Sciences Building,

A talk by Ron Labonté, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, and Ted Schrecker, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, and a principal scientist in the Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa.

Co-Sponsor: School of International Development and Global Studies.

Registration is not required. This event will be in English.

Professor Labonté chaired the Globalization Knowledge Network for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Recent books include Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (co-edited with Ted Schrecker, Corinne Packer and Vivien Runnels, 2009), Health Promotion: From Community Empowerment to Global Justice (co-authored with Glenn Laverack, 2008), and Critical Public Health: A Reader (co-edited with Judith Green, 2007).

Professor Schrecker is a co-author of Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health (2004) and many publications on globalization and health. He contributed to Global Health Watch 2005/6 and was Hub Coordinator for the Globalization Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Recent publications include “Globalisation and Health: The Need For a Global Vision” (with Ronald Labonté and Roberto De Vogli), Lancet (2008), and “Denaturalizing Scarcity: A Strategy of Inquiry for Public Health Ethics,” Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2008).

This event is part of the CIPS Study Group on Global Governance.