The Price of Life

This year's theme is "The Price of Life". Join us as we discuss how different industries monopolize and value health equity of global communities through in-depth conversations and discussions with impactful societal leaders working to make a difference in the healthcare field. The symposium will be held in a hybrid format this year on April 7-8th, 2023. We hope you will join us!

Dr Jean Claude Mugunga is a physician leader currently serving as the Deputy Chief Medical
Officer of Partners In Health, where he leads the organization’s work related to Population
Health Management (health financing, planning, and outcomes measurement) towards achieving Universal Health Coverage in supported countries. His previous work experience includes working as a clinician at public facilities in Rwanda and a researcher for the Overseas
Development Institute, UK, before joining PIH in 2013. He is a faculty member in the Division
of Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, as well as a Lecturer in Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Dr Mugunga obtained his medical degree from the University of Rwanda and a Master of Science in Global Health Policy and Management from Brandeis University.

Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D., St.M., is the Healey Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UConn School of Medicine in Farmington, CT. She also has an appointment as an Adjunct Professor in the UConn School of Law and serves as the Chair of the Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee that oversees stem cell research on UConn’s campuses. She is trained both as a social scientist and an ethicist and works across these fields in her research and teaching. She is the author, coauthor, and editor of 16 books on health and human rights issues and on ethical issues related to stem cells, genetics and health equity and more than 85 peer reviewed articles on these subjects. Her two most recent books are Global Health, Human Rights and the Challenges of Neoliberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Ethical Challenges of the Stem Cell Revolution (Cambridge Scholars Press, December 2020). She is currently conducting research related to the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on vulnerable communities.

Symposium Series

In addition to our UCONN Global Health Spaces on Campus Symposium in April, be sure to check out the symposium's hosted by Connecticut Children's Medical Center and UCONN Health prior to our event!