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November will be a busy month for Bioethics and Health Care Conferences in Australasia--please circulate the following announcements widely! ASSOCIATED BIOETHICS AND HEALTHCARE MEETINGS 3-5 November 2004 Conference: 5th International Conference on Priorities in Health Care Themes: a. Practical tools for making the hard decisions - The right service, at the right time, from the right provider. b. Resource allocation at the macro and meso level. c. Who calls the shots? - the role of key players in priority setting. d. Systems, incentives and 'cultural' support for priority setting. e. Priority setting lessons from developing countries. f. Equity, disparities and the health of indigenous people. Location: Wellington, New Zealand Details: This conference is for us to share current experiences and developing knowledge on priority setting in health care. Health systems and service providers face the task every day of deciding how to spend finite health funding. Wellington 2004 is the fifth in a series of international meetings on health priorities and emerging solutions. Previous meetings were held in Stockholm (1996), London (1998), Amsterdam (2000), and Oslo (2002). In Wellington, we will highlight practical approaches and tools to assist in day-to-day decision-making about the health services to fund, and who should receive those services first. Website: www.healthpriorities.org Contact: Wendy Edgar, Ministry of Health. Email: [log in to unmask] or fax: +64 4 496 2340 ****************************************** 3-5 November 2004 Symposia: Health, Human Rights and Ethics Symposia Theme: Do human rights improve public health? Approaches for mainstream marginalized populations. Location:University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Details: Through a combination of debates, panel discussions and case studies, the symposium will provide the forum for the critical discussion of the growing use (and misuse) of a rights based approach in public health discourse, research and practice. Issues to be considered will include: human rights as a legislative tool for public health, human rights frameworks for ethical public health practice, value of human rights to public health policies and programs and human rights indicators and impact assessments. Cases presented for discussion will have a largely Australian and regional (Asia Pacific) focus. Speakers:Invited panelist discussants will include leaders in health and human rights from the Harvard School of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of the Philippines, University of Pretoria, Law Faculties and Departments of Public Health at Melbourne and Monash Universities, Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commissions and others. Website: To be advised. Contact: Pascalle Allotey on [log in to unmask] or Bebe Loff on [log in to unmask] ****************************************** 7-9 November 2004 Conference: International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) Congress Theme: Feminists Explore Public Health, Indigenous Health and the Body Location:University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Details: The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) is proud to be holding its 5th conference as a network of the International Association of Bioethics as part of this series of bioethics meetings. FAB conferences routinely bring together some of the most interesting feminist and international perspectives current in bioethics. As part of this conference FAB will also hold its bi-annual meeting to discuss FAB activities and ratify the election of FAB officers. Abstracts: Authors are cordially invited to submit a paper proposal (abstract only) for the 2004 Congress of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB). Papers on any topic in feminist bioethics are welcome, although the plenary sessions will be devoted to the sub-themes in the Congress's title. On Tuesday 9 November the afternoon plenary and concurrent sessions on the Body will be offered as joint IAB/FAB cross-over sessions. Please see FAB website for further details. DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SUBMISSIONS: 20 February 2004. For more information, please contact: Wendy Rogers Email: [log in to unmask] or Rachel Ankeny Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.fabnet.org Registration: Details are available on the World Congress Bioethics site www.bioethicsworldcongress.com. For information regarding Congress registration and attendance, telephone +61 2 9385 3503 or email: [log in to unmask] or ****************************************** 9-12 November 2004 Congress: International Association of Bioethics (IAB) 7th World Congress of Bioethics Theme: Deep Listening: bridging divides in local and global ethics Sub-themes: Indigenous Health Ethics, Public Health Ethics from Local and Global Perspectives and Refiguring the Body Location: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Details: The Australian Congress Committee decided on the theme Deep Listening to emphasise the importance of communication between peoples of the world and to emphasise the importance of listening to sounds and voices that may be ignored. Deep listening: bridging divides in local and global ethics suggests a conversation of discovery at the margins between cultures and between those with power and the disempowered. The Congress will provide an opportunity to speak - and to listen-across divides and to contribute constructively to the many issues that will be addressed, resulting in an academic program that addresses important issues at the leading edge of bioethics enquiry. Abstracts: Invitations are extended to present a paper, Special Symposium, Conversation Piece, or Poster in any of the wide range of areas covered by the Congress. Alternatively, people are invited to offer a presentation (including Special Symposium) on any topic in bioethics. The Congress website provides detailed information on the list of discussion topics and deadlines for submissions. Website: www.bioethicsworldcongress.com Contact: Telephone +61 2 9385 3503 or email: [log in to unmask] ****************************************** 13-14 November 2004 Conference: Australasian Bioethics Association (ABA) 10th Conference Theme: Contesting Freedom in Healthcare: policy, practice and ethics Location: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Details: In all aspects of health and health care, and in all aspects of illness and its prevention, freedoms are at stake. But too often they are assumed, overlooked, or neglected. As we move into the twenty first century, furthermore, health care research and delivery will continue to change rapidly in nature, scope and purpose. These changes will impact on our freedoms, increasing some, diminishing others, and creating new kinds of inequality. So we are confronted with questions about alternative concepts of freedom and their applications to practice; about constraints on freedom; and about freedom's distribution and management. Whose freedomcounts and whose doesn't? How should freedom be configured in a pluralistic society? How should freedom be balanced with equity and responsibility? The ABA invites contributors from different disciplines and professions to address these and other questions as they relate to health. Areas of interest might include (but are by no means restricted to) the following: clinical practice research, human reproduction, sexuality and genetics, the beginning and end of life, lifestyle choices and identity, imprisonment and detention and whistleblowing. Abstracts: Invitations are invited to submit a paper or poster in any of the areas relating to the conference theme. The Conference website provides detailed information on the format for abstract submissions and deadlines for abstract submission. Website: www.australasian-bioethics.org Contact: Kokila De Silva, Secretary, Australasian Bioethics Association Email: [log in to unmask] or telephone: +61.2 9850 7854 Ian Kerridge, Vice President Australasian Bioethics Association. Email: [log in to unmask]