International Conference

Reforming healthcare
in the context of the restructuring of the welfare state


Lisbon, 8thof October 2010
Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/ IHMT,
Rua da Junqueira 100

Program


10:00h-----Welcome and presentation of the program
Paulo Ferrinho (Institute for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine / IHMT, Lisbon)
Reinhard Naumann (Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Lisbon)
Jorge Simões (University of Aveiro)

10:10h-----Opening: Is there a basic social right to healthcare?
Jorge Sampaio (former President of the Portuguese Republic)

10:30h-----Coffee break

10:45h-----Effective strategies for the renewal of healthcare systems
Elke Ferner (Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin)
Judy Feder (Centre for American Progress, Washington, DC)
Jorge Simões (University of Aveiro)

11:45h-----Debate
Facilitator: Maria do Céu Machado (High Commissioner for Health, Lisbon) tbc

13:00h-----Lunch break

14:30h-----Continuation of the debate in two parallel panels

17:45h-----Résumé and closing speech

 
There will be simultaneous translation (German - English - Portuguese)
Contact: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Tel. 21 356 33 75, Fax 21 357 34 22
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