International Association of Health Policy
The International Association of Health Policy (IAHP) is a scientific, political, and cultural organisation founded in 1977. It is an international network of scholars, health workers, and activists with the aim of promoting the scientific analysis of public health issues and a forum for international comparisons and debate on health policy issues.
The Turkish Medical Association (TMA) organizes a webinar on the first year of pandemic in Turkey, from 11 to 20 March.
You can find the programme and details for joining the webinar here
The pandemic has been a goldmine for private contractors and management consultants. But while the private sector (not least Tory ministers’ chums and donors) celebrate their new-found riches, the fiascos of failed private services have been exposed to millions.
Privatised test and trace systems have become byword for failure, just as poor standards of hospital cleaning epitomised the failures of the first outsourced contracts in the 1980s.
The question is how health unions and campaigners can pool their knowledge and work together to develop the right publicity and information to show the folly and expose the waste and inefficiency of privatisation and outsourcing.
Join us for an online conference on February 25, called by Health Campaigns Together, working in partnership with the health unions UNISON, Unite and GMB, the PDA union, the TUC, Keep Our NHS Public, the NHS Support Federation (NHS For Sale), and The Lowdown.
It will hear short introductions on each of the topics before breaking into workshops to consider and discuss priorities and various lines of argument to reach out to the wider, uninformed public.
Streatham MP BELL RIBEIRO-ADDY will chair the opening session
Register here to be kept informed.
This conference is supported by a Campaign Resource Pack including seven Briefing Sheets giving background on the key agenda topics and what we can learn from previous struggles as we fight to keep private hands off our NHS.
The Resource Pack can be downloaded below, or the individual Briefing Sheets can be downloaded individually from our Privatisation page.
For accessibility information for the conference please see http://rebrand.ly/HCT-accessibility
Turkey’s AKP government continues to undermine the rights and freedoms of individuals as well as the principle of autonomy of universities and civic organizations. Most recently, Turkish police have attacked and detained dozens of students who peacefully protested the AKP’s attempt to assert political control over Boğaziçi University in İstanbul.
On January 1, 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used an emergency decree from 2016 (KHK 676) to appoint Professor Melih Bulu, a loyal member of the ruling party, rector of Boğaziçi University. Bulu is not a member of the Boğaziçi University faculty, which violates the established rules and practices of University governance.[1]
This attempt by President Erdoğan to bring Boğaziçi University under his control has sparked widespread faculty and student protest.[2] The government’s response has been brutal. Erdoğan has called the students “terrorists” and LGBTI+ students in particular have been singled out for harassment.[3] The police have conducted home raids with guns drawn, detained and strip searched protestors, and engaged in torture.[4]
We the undersigned condemn these actions and stand in solidarity with the students and faculty of Boğaziçi University. We call upon Professor Bulu to decline the position and we call upon the Turkish government to release any students still in custody, withdraw all charges, and respect academic freedom and university autonomy.
[1] https://mesana.org/advocacy/committee-on-academic-freedom/2021/01/07/students-detained-after-protesting-appointment-of-new-rector-of-bogazici-university
[2] https://www.duvarenglish.com/bogazici-university-remains-defiant-in-the-face-of-erdogans-attempts-to-crush-academic-freedom-news-55719
[3] https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkeys-erdogan-claims-terrorists-are-involved-in-bogazici-university-protests-news-55789; https://jurnaltr.com/bogazici-universitesinde-gozaltina-alinan-2-ogrenciye-zorla-ciplak-arama-yapildi-polis-ciplak-aramaya-direnen-ogrencileri-yere-yatirip-pantolonlarini-indirdi/
[4] https://www.duvarenglish.com/police-battery-of-bogazici-students-confirmed-by-medical-examinations-news-55774
Endorsements:
Research Institute on Turkey
Academic Solidarity Network
PEN America
Article 19
Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project
Academics for Peace – North America
Academics for Peace – Germany
Solidarité avec les Universitaires pour la Paix et Défense des Droits Humains en Turquie (SUP-DDHT) – France
Scholars at Risk (SAR)
SAR – Italy
EuroMed Rights
Interflugs – Berlin
SUNY Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU) – New York
AGSEM Executive committee, McGill University
Politics Department at Ithaca College, New York
Philosophy Department at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
PhD/MA Program in Political Science, The Graduate Center, CUNY – New York
The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY – New York
SENS-UAW (The union of Student Academic Workers at The New School) – New York
Frederic Bastiat Institute of Cape Coast Technical University – Africa
The Board of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE), Europe
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| Thursday, February 11 Live program begins at 12 noon EST Join via Zoom Click here to RSVP Those who RSVP will receive a reminder to join shortly before the program begins. |
You are invited to the global launch event of the Lancet Commission on publicpolicy and health in the Trump era.
The Lancet Commission on public policy and health in the Trump era is the first comprehensive assessment of the health effects of President Trump’s policies. Led by 33 leading experts from the US, UK and Canada, the Commission was tasked with chronicling the repercussions of the administration’s actions and charting policies for a healthy future.
At the launch, the authors will present key findings and recommendations from the Commission. The presentations will be followed by a question and answer session chaired by Richard Horton, Editor-in-
Chief, The Lancet.
Register here
Presenters and speakers include:
• Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
• Steffie Woolhandler (City University of New York at Hunter College, New York; Harvard
Medical School, Boston)
• David Himmelstein (City University of New York at Hunter College, New York; Harvard Medical
School, Boston)
• Mary T Basset (Harvard University, Cambridge)
• Kevin Grumbach (University of California, San Francisco)
More speakers to be added.
This event is hosted by Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. The Commission will be published by The Lancet on 11th February. The Commission was supported by grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.
| The Lancet Commission on public policy and health in the Trump era is the first comprehensive assessment of the health effects of President Trump’s policies. Led by 33 leading experts from the US, UK and Canada, the Commission was tasked with chronicling the repercussions of the administration’s actions and charting policies for a healthy future. At the launch, the authors will present key findings and recommendations from the Commission. The presentations will be followed by a question and answer session chaired by Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet. Richard Horton will offer welcome remarks. Key findings of the commission will be presented by Roosevelt House faculty associates Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, Distinguished Professors of Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York, and Lecturers at Harvard Medical School; Mary T. Basset, former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University; and Kevin Grumbach, Professor of Family Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. (More speakers to be added.) This event is hosted by Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. The Commission will be published by The Lancet on 11th February. The Commission was supported by grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. |
Dr. Gökalp is an elected member of High Disciplinary Committee of Turkish Medical Association 2020-2022. He was an elected member of Central Council of Turkish Medical Association during 2014-2018.
Dr. Gökalp is a very well known physician. On 20th of November he was taken into custody from his home where he lives with her wife and two young daughters and 4 days later he has been arrested. He has been accused of being participated in a meeting that he did not participate. Later slanders of the false witness added to the indictment.His arrest is a part of the attacks against TMA because of the effective efforts to protect public health during Covid-19 pandemic.
IAHPE believes that national and international solidarity and the support of public opinion will end this unfair and unlawful arrestment.
Vicente Navarro, Professor of Public and Social Policy at The John Hopkins University, gave recently a lecture on November 2020 election in the United States of America, exposing the class roots of the actual polarization.
The People’s Health Movement supports the call by the Governments of India and South Africa for the World Trade Organization to waive certain provisions of the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement so as to enable countries to scale up the manufacture of promising vaccine candidates, medicines and diagnostics. PHM calls upon members and friends, country circles, regional networks, civil society organisations and social movements to assemble, organize, advocate and campaign in support of the India South Africa proposal.
Press here to read the whole statement
PHM’ s thematic Group on “War and Conflict, Occupation and Forced Migration and Health” is starting up its programmes with a webinar on
Resisting Militarisation of the Covid19 response
August 25 // 1 p.m GMT
(9:00 p.m Manila / 6:30 p.m Delhi / 4:00 p.m Beirut/ 10:00 a.m Rio)
Please Register Here: https://bit.ly/2CHYT5p
Speakers:
Michael Lim Tan (Philippines)
Elham Jameel (Yemen)
Sameer Jabour (Lebanon)
Maira Mathias- (Brazil)
Brief Intervention:
Rajni Soren (India)
Alexis Benos (Greece)
Moderator:
Joseph Cariebo (Philippines)- Also Coordinator
Imad Barghouthi, the prominent Palestinian astrophysicist arrested by Israeli authorities last month, remains in arbitrary detention at the Ofer Israeli prison camp. A petition demanding his liberation has reached more than 1500 signatories, many of which distinguished scholars around the world. We publish here a letter addressed to the international scientific community that prof. Barghouthi wrote from prison.
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