2006-2007 Topic: International Health Issues and Human Rights

International HIV/AIDS and Human Rights

This event was held on December 1, 2006

Featuring guest speakers Alan Lifson, MD, MPH, and Steven Miles, MD.

This event is designed for public health professionals, students and faculty and physicians, nurses, health educators, counselors and others from the campus and practice community committed to health as a basic human right.

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Click below for videos of December 1, 2006, Roundtable

• Opening Remarks
  John Finnegan and Debra Olson
• International HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
  Steven Miles (Introduction by Debra Olson)
• The Why Behind Why: Poverty, Politics, Inequality and Hiv
  Alan Lifson (Introduction by Debra Olson)
• Perspectives from East Africa
  Monica Yugu (Introduction by Debra Olson)
• Panel Discussion
  Moderated by Sarah Rybicki

Program Objectives

• Define health as a human rights issue.
• Describe the relationship between human rights abuses and the spread of HIV/AIDS.
• Identify effective prevention and treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS within a framework that advances and protects human rights for even the most vulnerable populations.

Keynote Speaker

Steven Miles, MD, is Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and on the faculty of the Center for Bioethics, the Graduate School and the University Council on Aging. His international work includes twenty-five years of work with the American Refugee Committee including service as chief medical officer for 45,000 refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border, AIDS prevention in Sudan, tsunami relief in Indonesia and teaching in many countries. He has published over 30 book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on medical ethics, human rights, tropical medicine, end of life care and geriatric health care. His latest book, Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror, is published by Random House. The Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine was published by Oxford University Press.

Alan Lifson, MD, MPH, is a Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, and an Adjunct Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is also Clinical Director of the Minnesota site for the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center. He is an author of over 80 journal articles or book chapters, mainly on different aspects of HIV and AIDS. He has taught, conducted research or been a consultant on AIDS and other infectious diseases in countries including Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, China, Vietnam, Ukraine, Romania, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Trinidad/Tobago and Guyana.

John R. Finnegan, Jr., PhD, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Debra Olson, MPH, RN, Associate Dean, Public Health Practice Education, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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Sponsored by

• The University of Minnesota School of Public Health
  • Dean's Office
  • Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach (CPHEO)
  • Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health (MCLPH)
• Center for Health Interprofessional Programs (CHIP)
  • Students International Health Committee
• Minnesota Public Health Association