Schedule: Day One
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Session I: Background
(Chair: Dan Brock)
9:00 Welcome
- Dan Brock, Chair, Director, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
9:15 Overview: what this conference is about and why it is being held
- Daniel Wikler, Harvard University
9:45 A history of responsibility for health
- Allan Brandt, Harvard University
10:30— 10:45 Coffee Break
(Chair: Nir Eyal)
10:45 Behavior-related risk factors and the global burden of disease
- Majid Ezzati, Harvard University
11:15 — 12:00 Discussion
12:00— 1:00 Lunch
Session II. What role for responsibility for health in a just society?
(Chair: Frances Kamm, Harvard University)
1:00 The significance of choice in the context of health policy
- Thomas Scanlon, Harvard University
1:30 Comment
- Seana Schiffin, UCLA
1:45 Discussion
2:00 Responsibility, choice, equality, and health
- Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
- Marc Fleurbaey, Université de Paris
3:00 — 3:30 Discussion
3:30 — 4:00 Coffee Break
(Chair: Norman Daniels, Harvard University)
4:00 Responsibility, choice, equality, and health (continued)
- Richard Arneson, University of California, San Diego
- John Roemer, Yale University
- Shlomi Segall, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
5:30 — 6:30 Discussion
Conference Reception
- All invited (in the New Research Building Lobby)