EUCE Conferences and Workshops

 

Workshop on Public Health in the European Union:

"'War on Cancer' and Accountability for Outcomes:
A Transatlantic Dialogue on How and Why of Success"

Monday, 16 April 2007
1:15 - 6:00 p.m.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
Health Sciences Learning Center
750 Highland Avenue Auditorium (Room 1309)

Streaming video is available from this event!
(NOTE: The Video Library site is free and open to everyone. All that is required is a quick registration of your name and email address).
Click on the links to view:

SESSION 1: Population Health and Health Care Perspectives
(Michel Coleman, MD, on "Differences in Survival between Rich and Poor: Can the 'War on Cancer' be Won?"
and Faruque Ahmed, MD, on "National Cancer Statistics in the United States")
or
SESSION 2: Politics of Cancer and Role of Governance: How and why is it changing?
(Jaroslaw Waligora on "How the European Union (EU) Envisions its Role in Governance")


Sponsors

Workshop Description

This workshop is the second in a series that examines emerging European Union-wide health policies and public health and their impact on the member states within the European Union. The workshops feature experts on the European Union recent initiatives in health policy and public health. University of Wisconsin experts on U.S. health policy and public health share their knowledge to create a transatlantic dialogue.

This 2007 workshop discusses how data dissemination can be used for accountability. The speakers will discuss the "war on cancer" from the EU and U.S. perspectives. There will be three panels: Population Health Perspectives, Health Care Perspectives, and the Politics of Cancer and the Role of Governance. These categories are very general and overlap. The breakdown is designed merely to help structure what we hope to be a free flowing discussion. The dialogue will advance the sharing of experience and best practices on how and why success can be achieved.

This workshop is part of an ongoing a transatlantic dialogue. The first workshop was held on April 24, 2006 and was entitled "Public Health, Comparative Health Policy and Law in the European Union: A Transatlantic Dialogue". The topic for the 2007 workshop emerged from that earlier workshop. We expect the audience to include students and faculty from throughout the campus: the School of Medicine and Public Health, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Nursing and Law. Practitioners of medicine, law and business are expected to attend.

Background Materials

1) "Freedom to Provide Health Services within the EU: An Opportunity for a Transformative Directive," by Tammy Hervey (University of Sheffield Law School) and Louise G. Trubek, forthcoming in Columbia Journal of European Law 2007.

2) "New Governance and Legal Regulation: Complementarity, Rivalry, or Transformation?" by David M. Trubek and Louise G. Trubek, forthcoming in Columbia Journal of European Law 2007.

See also the website of the related April 2006 workshop, for streaming video and related papers.

See also the website of April 2008 workshop: "Health and Development in Africa: And International Dialogue"

Workshop Agenda

1:15 - 3:00 p.m.       Discussion with speakers and commentators

Food will be provided. To help us plan catering please fill out the short online registration form at                                     http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB22642PC586W. There is no charge for this event.

3:00 p.m.                 Opening Remarks
Prof. Jeff Grossman
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs; President and CEO of University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation

Prof. Jonathan Zeitlin
Director of the European Union Center of Excellence; Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy; Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History, UW-Madison
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.         Population Health and Health Care Perspectives
Prof. Patrick Remington (Chair and Commentator)
Department of Population Health Sciences at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH) and Associate Director for Population Sciences at the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC)

Speakers:
 
Dr. Michel Coleman
Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics, Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"Differences in survival between rich and poor - can the 'war on cancer' be won?"
 
Dr. Faruque Ahmed 
Acting Chief of the Cancer Surveillance Branch
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, CDC
"National cancer statistics in the United States"

Click here to watch these two presentations
Commentators:
 
Dr. Jim Cleary
Program Leader of the Cancer Control Program at the UWCCC; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH)
 
Gordon Ridley
Sr. Associate Dean for Administration and Finance and Clinical Professor, UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH)
4:30 - 4:45 p.m.         Break

4:45 - 6:00 p.m.         Politics of Cancer and Role of Governance: How and why is it changing?
Prof. Graham Wilson (Chair)
Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs, UW-Madison

Speaker:
 
Dr. Jaroslaw Waligora
EU Commission "Health Information" Unit
"How the EU envisions its role in governance"
Click here to watch Dr. Waligora's presentation
 
Commentators:
 
Prof. Pam Herd
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology and Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, UW-Madison
 
Prof. Louise Trubek
Clinical Professor of Law, UW-Madison Law School and Director, Health Law Project