[interphen] 17 April deadline! Apply to participate: Brocher Summer Academy in population health ethics, Switzerland June 9-13

From: "Eyal, Nir" <Nir_Eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "INTERPHEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <INTERPHEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:02:23 -0400

We will convene a five-day meeting in Switzerland June 9-13 on ethical issues
arising in the measurement of the global burden of disease (GBD), with an
international, stellar group of speakers. The sponsors are the Brocher
Foundation, a Swiss non-profit, and the Institute for Health Metrics and
Evaluation (IHME), a Gates-supported research organization on the campus of
the University of Washington in Seattle, where the GBD team is located. All
sessions will be held at the Brocher Villa, near Geneva, on the southern shore
of Lake Geneva.

[cid:image001.jpg@01CF4E5A.A4F05230]This is the third of a series of biannual
conferences at Brocher with the title "Brocher Academy of Global Population
Health". As the word "academy" suggests, it is both a working meeting for
scholars and also an educational opportunity, open to advanced graduate
students, post-docs, and younger scholars. The latter are chosen from the pool
of applicants by the directors of the event (Dan Wikler, Nir Eyal, and Samia
Hurst) and approved by the Brocher Board.

Brocher covers the costs of attending (food and lodging in or near the site in
Hermance, Switzerland), which would otherwise be prohibitively expensive, but
travel costs are not reimbursed.

The website for the conference is
here<http://www.brocher.ch/fr/events/86/brocher-summer-academy-in-the-ethics-of-global-population-health-2014-ethical-choices-for-dalys-and-the-measurement-of-the-global-burden-of-diseas>,
and an updated call for applications is attached. The deadline for application
is 17 April 2014. Also attached FYI is the "methods" paper, published in the
mid-December 2012 Lancet amongst other reports from the latest GBD iteration.

These meetings consist of five long, densely packed, tiring days of discussion
and debate with outstanding scholars in philosophy, economics, epidemiology,
and related disciplines. An earlier meeting resulted in the publication of this
recent publication. Its table of contents is posted
here<http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199931392.do>, and will give you
some idea of what these sessions are like.

Our tradition has been to follow the close of the conference with a few days in
the Swiss Alps, hiking from one mountain hut to another, on our own dime.
Though the routes are challenging, some of the most fruitful discussions have
taken place on the trail. General fitness is required, but no technical
expertise. If you might be interested in joining the hike, do block off 13-17
June (though we may return to Geneva earlier, e.g. on the 15th/16th).

Hoping you would consider applying,

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Dan Wikler
Harvard University
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Nir Eyal
[cid:image010.jpg@01CF4E5A.A4F05230]Harvard University

Samia Hurst
University of Geneva

Attachment: Murray et al Comprehensive Systematic Analysis of Global Epidemiology Lancet 2012r.pdf
Description: Murray et al Comprehensive Systematic Analysis of Global Epidemiology Lancet 2012r.pdf

Attachment: Sessions in 2014 Brocher Summer Academy Program 090314.docx
Description: Sessions in 2014 Brocher Summer Academy Program 090314.docx

Attachment: Updated call for junior participant applications Apr 2.docx
Description: Updated call for junior participant applications Apr 2.docx

[interphen] 17 April deadline! Apply to participate: Brocher Summer Academy in population health ethics, Switzerland June 9-13

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