2006-2007 Topic: International Health Issues and Human Rights

Human Rights, the Burden of Disease and International Tobacco Control

This event took place on April 27, 2007.

Featuring keynote speakers Carolyn Dresler, MD and Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM.

This event is designed for public health professionals, students and faculty and physicians, nurses, health educators, counselors and others from the campus and practice community committed to health as a basic human right.

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Click below for videos of December 1, 2006, Roundtable

• Opening Remarks
  John Finnegan and Harry Lando
• What a Human Rights Lens Brings to Tobacco Control
  Carolyn Dresler
• Human Rights in Global Tobacco Control: A Rights-Based Approach to the FCTC and Its Protocols
  Benjamin Mason Meier
• Panel Response - Introduction (moderated by Harry Lando)
  • Kirk C. Allison
  • Doug Blanke
  • Patricia Lambert
• Discussion and Questions with Audience

Program Objectives

• Define health as a human rights issue
• Describe the impact of the tobacco-related burden of disease on the developing world
• Explore the emergence of human rights framings regarding international tobacco control
• Outline the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Keynote Speakers

Carolyn Dresler, MD, is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Branch Chief, Division of Health, DHHS, Arkansas. She is the former head of the Unit for Tobacco and Cancer Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. Her research and academic interests include the biologic initiation of tobacco-related cancer, the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, nicotine addiction and global issues of tobacco control.

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, has been an IGERT International Development and Globalization Fellow at Columbia University’s Department of Sociomedical Sciences since 2005 as he pursues his doctorate degree. His interdisciplinary research, at the intersection of political science and public health, examines the insalubrious effects of globalization policies on individual health status and national health systems. He is currently writing a book on the development and evolution of the human right to health.

Speakers and Panelists

Kirk C. Allison, PhD, MS, Director, Program in Human Rights and Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

D. Douglas Blanke, JD, Director, Tobacco Law Center, William Mitchell College of Law

John R. Finnegan, Jr., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Patricia Lambert, JD, Legal Advisory, International Legal Consortium, Bloomberg Global Tobacco Initiative, Washington, DC; former advisor, Ministry of Health, South Africa

Harry Lando, PhD, Professor, Distinguished International Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Human Rights, the Burden of Disease International Tobacco Control

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Sponsored by

• The University of Minnesota School of Public Health
  • Dean's Office
  • Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach (CPHEO)
  • Midwest Center for Life-Long-Learning in Public Health (MCLPH)
  • Program in Human Rights and Health
• Center for Health Interprofessional Programs (CHIP)
  • Students' International Health Committee
• Minnesota Public Health Association
• Tobacco Law Center, William Mitchell College of Law

Funded in part by a generous contribution from the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company.