CONFERENCE. The World Health Organization, WHO, identifies drug resistance as a global challenge threatening human health and the fundamental achievements of modern medicine. Ethics and value conflicts are at the centre of this challenge: both regarding slowing down resistance development and addressing problems due to resistance. These issues arise on all levels, from day-to-day health care to global politics. This symposium is open to all interested in these issues, and presents internationally leading experts in the area from Australia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the USA.
Conference participation is free of charge, but requires pre-registration! The symposium especially targets academics, health professionals, administrators and policy makers with an interest in antibiotic resistance policy and related issues, but welcome all interested participants!
The World Health Organization identifies antibiotic resistance as a global challenge so serious that it threatens the fundamental achievement of modern medicine. Ethics and value conflicts are at the centre of this challenge: understanding its nature and stakes, identifying adequate social responses, understanding why policies and actions can be more or less accepted by stakeholders. Underlying issues regard conflict between individual interests and long term interests of society; as well as national as opposed to global societal interests in the short- and long term, how to manage the distribution of benefits and burdens coming out of efforts to mitigate further resistance development and managing consequences of established resistance, and responsibly balancing uncertainty in the face of major public health threats.
The Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research (CARe) at the University of Gothenburg started in 2016 as a cross disciplinary hub for research, education and public outreach across six faculties, including collaboration with societal and private actors. More information about CARe is found here: http://care.gu.se
Now CARe presents a 2 day symposium on the theme of Ethics and Value Challenges in Antibiotic Resistance Management, Policy and Research, November 15-16, 2017. This symposium will house up to 300 participants, and assemble internationally excellent keynote presenters in ethics, law, public health and related areas engaged on this topic ¿ including leaders of recently started major research projects¿ from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA (see program below).
Lecturer:
DAY 1 Otto Cars (Uppsala University) Michael J. Selgelid (Monash University and WHO) Marcel Verweij (Wagenigen University) Clare Chandler (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Michael Millar (Barts Health NHS Trust) Jonathan Anomaly (UNC Chapel Hill & Duke University) DAY 2 (preliminary schedule 09:00 – 18:00) Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford) Steven J. Hoffman (York University of Toronto) Jasper Littmann (Robert Koch Institute) Angus Dawson (University of Sydney) Alena Buyx (Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel) Christian Munthe (University of Gothenburg) Sverker Jagers (University of Gothenburg)
Location:
Main auditorium, Vasaparken
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