Lesley University's Leadership for Social Change Series and
International and Collaborative Programs, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel invite you to a panel discussion on The Right to Health in Israel and the Occupied Territories

Alumni Hall, Main Campus Lesley University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

The panel will explore the interaction among the government, public
health policy, and human rights activists' claims and struggles. The
ambivalence and contradictions between the state and civil society, and
in the local and national levels of government will be discussed in
relationship to HIV/AIDS, rights to water and accessibility to antenatal
care.

The panelists are physicians, researchers and activists engaged in
trying to ensure adequate health care for all population groups in
Israel. Come and learn more about a dimension of Israeli healthcare
delivery that is little covered in the news media, but has a huge impact
on the day to day life of thousands and provides an important test of
Israeli national character, compassion, and commitment to social justice.

Presentations and Panelists:
1) "Health Policy and (Non)citizenship: Migrant Workers and HIV/AIDS in
Israel"

Dani Filc, MD, PhD

Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of
the Negev
Chairperson, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD
Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia
University.

2) "People Have Walked on the Moon, I Still Dream of Water: The Right
to Water in the Unrecognized Negev Villages in Israel"
Orly Almi, MS
Coordinator for the Project for Unrecognized Villages of the Negev
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
Accessibility and Utilization of Antenatal Care Among Women from the
Unrecognized Bedouin Villages" of the Negev Desert/ Israel

Nora Gottlieb
Department for Health System Research, European TropEd Network for
Int'l Health/
Ben Gurion University of the Negev


For more information, contact Laura Gerhard at 617-349-8434 or
lgerhard@mail.lesley.edu.