[Linganth] Registration open: 2017 HCALM conference on language and health - ethical and policy issues

[HCALM Network]

2017 HCALM International Conference
Language and Health – Ethical and Policy Issues (with special focus on consent)

September 28-30, 2017
Hôtel de l’ITHQ, Montreal

For almost a decade Health Canada has been funding important and innovative research on linguistic issues in healthcare provision, through HCALM (Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities) Network – an interdisciplinary and interinstitutional community of researchers. The project comprises the research capacity of the larger Training and Retention of Health Professionals Project (TRHP), based at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.

The HCALM network will hold its 2017 annual conference on the topic of ‘language and health – ethical and policy issues’ in September 28-30. Language and health are interrelated in myriad ways, ranging from issues of physical and mental healthcare provision in multilingual societies, to health literacy and communication among patients, practitioners and policymakers, and to discourses of health and wellbeing. In accordance with the strong interdisciplinary nature of HCALM’s community of researchers, the conference brings together theories, frameworks, concepts and methods from a broad range of disciplines in the medical sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Similarly, it addresses the significant ethical and policy issues at the interface of public health and language (including sign language) policy, broadly interpreted. The third day of the conference is dedicated specifically to the topic of consent in the context of language and health.

Plenary speakers:

  *   Chad Katsenhakeron Diabo, MHFA youth trainer and first responder (Kahnawake)
  *   Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, bioethicist (Gallaudet)
  *   Marc Zaffran, M.D., physician-writer (Montreal)

For further details concerning the event program, registration and accommodation please see the conference webpage (https://www.mcgill.ca/ihsp/events/2017-hcalm-international-conference-0).


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Dr. Yael Peled

Research Associate in Language and Health
The Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities (HCALM) Network

Institute for Health and Social Policy
McGill University
Charles Meredith House
1130 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A3
Tel.: 514-398-1236

Faculty of Medicine
McGill University
3605 Mountain St.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3G 2M1
Tel.: 514-398-1768

Website: www.peledy.com<http://www.peledy.com>

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