Call for Expressions of Interest!

International Conference on REALISING THE RIGHTS TO HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR
ALL. Monday 26 Thursday 29 October, 2009. MeliĄ Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam

www.healthandrights.com

The University of New South Wales Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR)
and Central Commission for Popularization and Education of The Communist Party
of Vietnam, are pleased to inform you of the forthcoming International
Conference on Realising the Rights to Health and Development for All.

This Conference aims to further the understanding of the complex and powerful
relationships between health, development and human rights and to propose
practical ways that policies, strategies and research can optimally respond to
these challenges.

The themes of the Conference include: HIV/AIDS and other current and emerging
public health threats; maternal and child health; climate change; and economic
globalisation. The Conference objectives and agenda aim to surface a reflection
and recommendations on how these contemporary challenges to health and
development can be documented, analysed and responded to from the perspective of
their reciprocal interactions and through human rights-based approaches in
Vietnam, the Asia-Pacific Region, and globally.

The four day International Conference will engage representatives of research
institutes, universities, governmental and non-governmental organisations, as
well as leading international and regional scholars, human rights practitioners,
health professionals and members of civil society. The realisation of this
Conference owes to the keen support from Vietnamese leaders, The Atlantic
Philanthropies, the United Nations (One-UN), The USAID | Health Policy
Initiative, Task Order 1; the Australian Agency for International Development
(AusAID); and the Open Society Institute (OSI).

Places are limited! Submit your Expression of Interest now on the Conference
website at http://www.healthandrights.com.
Submissions are due 18 June, 2009.


With thanks,

Kris Vine
on behalf of Prof Daniel Tarantola

Daniel Tarantola
Professor of Health and Human Rights
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Samuels Building, Level 2, Room 228
The University of New South Wales
SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
e-mail: <IHHR.DanielTarantola@...>

The UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights l School of Public Health and
Community Medicine l Samuels Building, Rm 240 l The University of New South
Wales l Sydney NSW 2052 Australia