Global Health Inequality

What creates global health inequality? And how can we create more equal access to healthcare around the world? What impact will increasing migration flows have on global health?

Unequal access to healthcare is a growing and serious global problem, which has major social and economic costs for both the individual and society. This track will investigate why health inequality emerges, what implications it may have locally and globally, and how we can work to ensure that underserved populations get better access to healthcare services.

Overview of parallel sessions

Migration Health: Co-organized by ESGITM

Time: Thursday May 11 at 12.45-14.30
Auditorium: Merete Barker

This track will explore what impact increasing migration flows will have on global health and present solutions for better management of vulnerable populations.

Chair: 

Carsten Jensen, Professor, Aarhus University  

Speakers:

Lara Tavoschi, Senior Researcher, University of Pisa
Global health challenges and solutions in vulnerable populations

Manish Pareek, Professor, University of Leicester
Key Issues in Migrant Health

Ana Requena, Research Specialist, Karolinska Institutet
Transforming data collection on migrant health in LMIC

Flash talks by:
Anna Krabbe, Stud. med., Social Sundhed
Building bridges: An NGO approach to health inequality

Anders Aasted Isaksen, PhD Student, Aarhus University
Disparities in glucose-lowering drug therapy in migrants and native Danes with type 2 diabetes

Leela Carstensen, MD, University of Southern Denmark
Case descriptions of health outcomes for ethnic minority patients in Denmark exposed to an accident

Solutions for Institutionalized Health Inequities

Time: Friday May 12 at 10.30-12.15
Auditorium: Merete Barker

What creates global health inequality? And how we create more equal access to healthcare around the world. Unequal access to healthcare is a growing and serious global problem, which has major social and economic costs for both the individual and society. This track will investigate why health inequality emerges, what implications it may have locally and globally, and how we can work to ensure that underserved populations get better access to healthcare services.

Chair: 

Jens Seeberg, Professor, Aarhus University

Speakers:

Morten Sodemann, Clinical Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Global Health Inequities on display – from Black Swan to Global Health opportunity

Axel Pries, Professor, Charité Berlin
Institutional causes for global health inequities

David Napier, Professor, University College London
Health Inclusivity and Health Inequity: Why Rethinking Data Matters

Flash talks by:
Vibeke Brix, Pediatrician, Doctors Without Borders
We are all in this world together

Julia Callaway, Postdoc, University of Southern Denmark
The impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy among different socioeconomic groups in Denmark

Pernille Høj, International Consultant, AIDS-Fondet
Inequalities fueling the global HIV epidemic – financing, discrimination and criminalization