9h30 : Lobbying for the Unborn: Anti-Abortion Discourses and Abortion Governance in Post-communist Romania

Anton Lorena - PhD, Marie Curie Fellow/CSIII - University of Bucharest

 

9h50 : Disease, Disability and Decision-making: HIV and Unexplored Intersections Between Medicine and the Law in the Canadian Immigration System

Bisaillon Laura - Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Anthropology, University of Toronto

 

10h10 : Perpetually, Potentially Pregnant: The Emergence of "Women of Childbearing Age" in Clinical Research and Public Health Policy

Cattapan Alana - Postdoctoral Fellow - Dalhousie University

 

10h30 : Coffee Break

 

10h50 : Noncommunicable Diseases as a Global Health Emergency: the World Health Organization, Public Health Knowledge, and the Internationalization of Policy

Chaisson Kristen - PhD Student - University of Calgary
 

11h10 : The labelling of mental disease: Towards responsible labelling practices

De Knecht Sicco - Msc, PhD Candidate - University of Amsterdam / Driessen Annelieke - PhD Candidate - University of Amsterdam / Spruit Shannon - Msc, PhD Candidate - Delft University of Technology / Van Duin Esther - Msc, PhD Candidate - Maastricht University, The Netherlands

 

11h30 : One Health: Whose Health is it Anyway?

Lederman Zohar - MD, PhD candidate - Centre for Biomedical Ethics

 

11h50 : Documenting Mass Rape: The Emergence and Implications of Medical Evidence Collection Techniques in Settings of Armed Conflict and Mass Violence

Morse Jaimie - PhD Candidate - Northwestern University
 

12h10 : Lunch

 

13h30 : A New Medicalization of Poverty? Ethical and Policy Implications of Mental Health Services for the Poor in the United States

Mpondo-Dika Ekedi - PhD Candidate - Harvard University
 

13h50 : Beautiful Children: Medicine and The Future of Transgender Identity

Sadjadi Sahar - Assistant Professor - Amherst College
 

14h10 : The Cost of Sexual Violence and Its Transgenerational Impact in Conflict-Affected African Countries

Woldetsadik Mahlet Atakilt - Doctoral Fellow - Pardee RAND Graduate School