EUCE Conferences and Workshops

 

Workshop: "Public Health, Comparative Health Policy and Law
in the European Union: A Transatlantic Dialogue"

This workshop was held on April 24-25, 2006
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison


A follow-up workshop will be held in April 2007. Details are available here.



The following resources related to this workshop are available online!

1. Streaming video from the workshop:
Part 1 (presentations)
Part 2 (commentators and discussion)

2. Paper by Tamara Hervey and Louise Trubek:
"Freedom to provide health care services within the EU:
An opportunity for a Transformative Directive"
may be downloaded (pdf)

3. Scroll down to the Workshop Program for links to workshop presentations

Sponsors Workshop Description

The workshop is the first of a series that examines emerging European Union-wide health policies and their impact on the member states within the European Union. The workshop features experts on the European Union recent initiatives in health policy and on public health. Professor Tamara Hervey will present an overview of the EU health law and policy initiatives from the legal, judicial, and policy perspectives. Dr. Francisco Sevilla will concentrate on the Spanish and French health system and the potential effects of the EU initiatives on those systems. Dr. Canice Nolan will discuss explorations in the EU on health policies and public health. The presentations will be followed by comments from outstanding Wisconsin health experts and practitioners sharing their views on the relevance of the EU and European national health law and policies to the United States. The audience will include students and faculty from throughout the campus including the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Social Sciences, Nursing and Law. Practitioners of medicine, law and business are also expected to attend.

This program is the opening event for the "Public Health, Comparative Health Policy and Law in the European Union: A Transatlantic Dialogue" project. The sponsors will be hosting a series of workshops, small group meetings, research, and publications over the next three years. Following the workshop on April 24, there will be opportunities for informal meetings and discussions with the speakers and sponsors on April 25 in the morning.

The workshop is free and open to the public.

Program

April 24th (3:00 - 6:00 p.m.)

3:00 - 4:30 Speakers

3:00 - 3:30 Francisco Sevilla, Social Affairs Attaché at the Spanish Embassy in France and the Spanish Embassy at the OECD
"Health Policy and Public Health in Spain and France: Comparing European Union National Health Systems"
- Link to related bibliography and presentation

3:30 - 4:00 Tamara Hervey, Professor of Law at Nottingham, UK
"Why are European Union health care professionals concerned about European Union law?"
- Link to presentation

4:00 - 4:30 Canice Nolan, First Counselor, Head of Food Safety, Health and Consumer Affairs Section Delegation of the European Commission
"European Health Care Challenges "
- Link to presentation

Moderator:
Cynthia Haq, Director, UW-Madison Center for Global Health; Professor of Family Medicine and Population Health Sciences, UW School of Medicine and Public Health

4:30-4:45 Break

4:45 - 5:30 Commentators

4:45 - 5:00 Dave Kindig, Professor Emeritus, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

5:00 - 5:15 Gene Farley, Professor Emeritus, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

5:15 - 5:30 Jeff Grossman, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and CEO of the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation

Moderator:
Louise Trubek, Clinical Professor of Law, UW-Madison Law School and Director, Health Law Project

5:30 - 6: 00 Discussion with participants

6:00 Reception (Atrium)

April 25th (9:00 a.m. - noon)

Small meetings/interviews with speakers (Board Room)

Workshop Presenters

Professor Tamara K. Hervey

LL.B. (Glasgow); Ph.D. (Sheffield)
Professor of Law

Tamara Hervey studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Sheffield, before taking up the Jean Monnet Lectureship in European Community Law the University of Durham in 1992. She was lecturer in law at the University of Manchester from 1995-98, and was appointed reader at the University of Nottingham in 1998. In 2000 she was promoted to Professor of Law. Her interests are in the Law of the European Union, in particular its social and constitutional dimensions. She is interested in interdisciplinary methods in EU legal research. She has given papers on sex equality in social security law at conferences organised by the European Commission and the Dutch and Swedish governments, and has acted as an expert witness for the European Parliament on the subject of health law. She is a member of the Council of Europe’s academic network on social rights. She is author of Justifications for Sex Discrimination in Employment (1993), European Social Law and Policy (1996), (with Jean McHale), Health Law and the European Union (2004), and (with Jeff Kenner) of Social Rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2003). She is currently working on the governance of health in the EU’s legal order, and on equality in EU law.

Dr. Francisco Sevilla

MD (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), MA in Hospital Administration and Management (EADA - Escuela Alta Dirección y Administració, Barcelona)
Social Affairs Attaché at the Spanish Embassy in France and the Spanish Embassy at the OECD

Francisco Sevilla received his medical degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and masters degree Hospital Administration and Management at the EADA - Escuela Alta Dirección y Administració, Barcelona. He has worked for the Spanish Health Ministry in various capacities, including regional director of INSALUD (Managing body of health care services) in Palma de Mallorca, Islas Baleares (1987-1990); Deputy General Director of Health Planning (1991-1994) and General Director of Health Planning (1994-1996) at the Spanish Health Ministry; and Health Secretary in Asturias (1999-2003). He was visiting professor in the Department of Management and Health Policy, School of Hygiene and Public Health at John Hopkins University from 1997-1998 and taught on “European Health Care Services”.

Dr. Sevilla also served a member at the Standing Committee of European Hospitals, which was responsible for defining a policy for hospitals in the process of European integration, specifically financing hospitals and information systems all around Europe.

He has published numerous articles and given papers on the subject of health policy in Europe. He has also engaged in consultancy activities in Spain, Panama, Ecuador, and Czech Republic. He is currently working as the Social Affairs Attaché at the Spanish Embassy in France and the Spanish Embassy at the OECD.

Dr. Canice Nolan

B.Sc. and PhD (University College Dublin)
Food Safety, Health and Consumer Counselor, European Commission, Washington, D.C.

Canice Nolan is first counselor and head of the Food Safety, Health, and Consumer Affairs Section at the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington DC.
Prior to this appointment, Dr. Nolan worked for both the DG Research of the European Commission responsible for program management on Environment, Health, and Chemical Safety and for the DG Agriculture where he was responsible initially for pesticides residues legislation.

Following the reorganization of the commission in 1999, this work moved to DG Health and Consumer Protection where he was head of the Plant Protection Products Sector – responsible for the management and development of legislation on pesticides evaluation, authorization, and use as well as the setting and monitoring of maximum residue limits for pesticides in food and feed. Mr. Nolan holds a B.Sc. in zoology and a PhD in heavy metal toxicology from the University College Dublin.