Summer programme on noncommunicable diseases and the law

The summer programme will bring together leading practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and academics in global health to explore the role and implications of law in the global response to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). It will take place at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University on 17-21 June 2013, in Washington D.C., USA.

Through interactive lectures, panels, and case studies, participants will learn to analyze the legal powers, duties, and constraints imposed by national and international law in the context of NCDs and will be equipped with the skills to critically assess the merits of new legal approaches to address NCDs.

After undertaking the programme, participants should have a comprehensive understanding of:

• the global burden of NCDs;
• contemporary developments at the international level;
• innovative examples of good practice at the national and global level;
• international instruments governing the regulation of NCDs;
• the intersection of human rights and NCDs; and
• the intersection of trade, investment and NCDs.

Applications will be accepted until 18 May 2013.

Information and inscription here.

From, WHO/Europe