CHIP Lecture Series, Fall 2014
“Core Health Obligations from the Perspectives of Human Rights and Public Health”
Audrey R. Chapman, PhD, Professor of Community Medicine and Healthcare, UConn Health
12:30 - 1:30pm
An informal discussion with Dr. Chapman will follow in J. Ray Ryan Building, Room 003, until 2:20pm
Co-Sponsor
Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the Human Rights Institute, UConn.
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture -- or archived after the lecture -- at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-9-18-14 (the informal discussion following the talk will not be streamed or archived). Live webcast viewers may submit questions in real time; simple instructions are posted at http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/qaforum-instructions/.
About the Speaker
Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D., is Professor of Community Medicine and Healthcare and holds the Healey Memorial Chair in Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Prior to coming to the University of Connecticut in July 2006, she served as the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Senior Associate for Ethics for the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion. She received a Ph.D. in public law and government from Columbia University and graduate degrees in theology and ethics from New York Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. She is the author, coauthor, or editor of sixteen books dealing with bioethics and human rights and more than 45 peer reviewed articles and reports. Her books on human rights include Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver? (with Hugo van der Merwe) and Core Obligations: Building a Framework for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (with Sage Russell). She is currently writing a book on obstacles to implementing rights-based approaches to health. Her bioethical publications include Genetic Research on Addiction: Ethics, the Law, and Public Health; Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications (with Mark Frankel); and Unprecedented Choices: Religious Ethics at the Frontiers of Genetic Science. She serves as the Chair of the University of Connecticut Stem Cell Oversight Committee. She is also is a member of the State of Connecticut Stem Cell Ethics and Law Working Group and the Dempsey Hospital Ethics Committee.
More information available at: http://www.chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/fall-2014-schedule/
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