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President's Dream Colloquium on Traveling for Health

This colloquium is no longer running. You can view recorded web streams and read more about previous public lectures on this page.

Fall 2015

The health sector is ever more globalized through the increasing ease of travel, trade in health services, and the spread of new health technologies across international borders. National health systems cannot function in isolation from one another as patients, health professionals, and even diseases are in a constant process of movement from one space to another.

Through this colloquium, we seek to challenge participants’ understanding of what forms travel for health is taking and what impacts traveling for health is having both within Canada and internationally. Participants in this colloquium, including registered students and the wider community, will gain a better understanding of the opportunities and limitations presented by the globalization of health care and the need to better understand and plan for the dangers and potential for health inequities that this process creates.

Patients and health workers are increasingly traveling for health and the issues discussed in this seminar are of continuing importance to members of not only the university community but globally as well.

The free public lectures will start a dialogue on what steps we can take to shape this trend in a way more beneficial to Canadians and non-Canadians alike. Students taking the associated course will leave with a strong understanding of the role of globalization and travel on global health.

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Past Public Lectures

September 17, 2015

Medical Volunteering Abroad

Speaker: John Crump
MB, FRACP, FRCPA, FRCP
McKinlay Professor of Global Health
Dunedin School of Medicine
University of Otago, New Zealand


October 1, 2015

Health Worker Migration

Speaker: Ronald Labonté
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity, University of Ottawa


October 15, 2015

International Human Subject Research

Speaker: Anant Bhan
MBBS, MHSc, PGDMLE
Adjunct (Visiting) Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Yenepoya Medical College, and the Centre for Ethics, Yenepoya University, Mangalore


October 29, 2015

Medical Tourism to Low and Middle Income Countries

Speaker: Rupa Chanda
Professor, Economics and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)


November 5, 2015

Medical Tourism to Canada

Speaker: Monika Dutt
MD, CCFP, FRCPC, MPH, MBA, MFA candidate,
Chair, Canadian Doctors for Medicare


November 5, 2015

Circumvention Tourism

Speaker: Glenn Cohen
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics, Harvard University


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