Conference on Social Resilience and Health Equity: A human right prospective for better resilience and preparedness (EuroHealthNet speaks)
EuroHealthNet director Caroline Costongs will speak at the Council of Europe’s Conference on Social Resilience and Health Equity: A human right prospective for better resilience and preparedness on 22nd February 2022.
The event aims at raising awareness on the importance of human rights protection during public health crises and how to support member states in getting better resilience and preparedness to such crises. The event will offer an opportunity to identify needs to be addressed for the protection of vulnerable groups, including persons having difficulties in accessing healthcare.
SESSION I – OPENING
Chair: Ritva Halila (Chair of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health – CDBIO, Finland)
- Beredetto Della Vedova Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Italy
- Roberto Speranza Minister of Health, Italy
- Christophe Poirel Human Rights Director, Council of Europe
SESSION II – SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND HEALTH EQUITY
Chair: Caroline Costongs (Director, EuroHealthNet)
- Michael Marmot
- Armando de Negri
SESSION III – EFFECTIVE EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT TO PROTECTION OF HEALTH DURING PANDEMICS
Chair: Silvio Brusaferro (President, Italian National Institute of Health)
- Silvio Brusaferro – President of the Italian National Institute of Health, Italy
- Giuseppe Palmisano – General Rapporteur of the European Committee of Social Rights; Professor of International Law and International Human Rights Law at the University of Roma Tre, Italy
- Miguel Cabral – Public Health Medical Doctor and a Health Authority in the Public Health Unit of Maia/Valongo, Portugal
- Niall Crowley – Independent Equality and Human Rights Expert & Equinet External Expert, Ireland
- Raffaele Sabato – Judge, European Court of Human Rights
- Tomáš Doležal
- Tigran Karapetyan – Head of Transversal Challenges and Multilateral Projects Division, Council of Europe
GENERAL DISCUSSION ON SESSION II AND III
Chair: Silvio Brusaferro (President, Italian National Institute of Health)
SESSION IV – CONCLUSIONS
Chair: Nicola-Daniele Cangemi (Head, Department Human Rights, Justice and Legal Cooperation Standard Setting activities, DGI, Council of Europe)
- Nicola Daniele Cangemi – Head of the Department for Human Rights, Justice and Legal Cooperation Standard-setting activities, DGI, Council of Europe
- Selin Sayek Böke – Chairperson of the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Romolo De Camillis – Director of Labour and Industrial Relations of the Ministry of Labor, Italy
- Eliane Chemla
- Assunta Morresi – Bureau member of the Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO), Italy
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Find the agenda in full here.
