President's Dream Colloquium on Traveling for Health

Colloquium Course Syllabus

Fall 2015

Instructor:
Jeremy Snyder
Faculty of Health Sciences
jcs12@sfu.ca

Course Format

The class will meet weekly for three hours, alternating between a pre-seminar and a seminar by a guest speaker. During the weeks with a guest speaker, a dinner will follow. Students are expected to participate in the pre-seminars, seminars, and some of the dinners. During pre-seminar weeks, a group of students will be assigned the responsibility of presenting the week’s readings. All students will be expected to write a critical response to the readings from the pre-seminar weeks. At the conclusion of the term, students will present a capstone project.

Evaluation

Assignment Percentage
Presentation of the Week's Readings 30%
Bi-Weekly Critical Response (700 words) 20%
Participation 10%
Capstone 40%

How to Apply

We are no longer accepting applications for the Fall 2015 colloquium.


Schedule of Public Lectures, Readings, and Screenings

Click each session date to view readings and for more details.
Note: Some changes may be made to the reading list.

Week One

Medical Volunteering Abroad
September 10, 2015 - Pre-Seminar
  • Snyder, J., Dharamsi, S., & Crooks, V. A. (2011). Fly-By medical care: Conceptualizing the global and local social responsibilities of medical tourists and physician voluntourists. Globalization and health7(6).
  • Asgary, R., & Junck, E. (2013). New trends of short-term humanitarian medical volunteerism: professional and ethical considerations. Journal of medical ethics39(10), 625-631.
  • Dharamsi, S., Osei‐Twum, J. A., & Whiteman, M. (2011). Socially responsible approaches to international electives and global health outreach. Medical education45(5), 530-531.
  • Allen, M. B., Dyott, C., & Jesus, J. (2012). Short‐Term International Medical Initiatives. Ethical Problems in Emergency Medicine: A Discussion-Based Review, 207-220.

Week Two

John Crump
September 17, 2015 - Seminar
  • Crump, J. A., Sugarman, J., & Working Group on Ethics Guidelines for Global Health Training (WEIGHT. (2010). Ethics and best practice guidelines for training experiences in global health. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene83(6), 1178-1182.
  • Crump, J. A., & Sugarman, J. (2008). Ethical considerations for short-term experiences by trainees in global health. JAMA300(12), 1456-1458.
  • Provenzano, A. M., Graber, L. K., Elansary, M., Khoshnood, K., Rastegar, A., & Barry, M. (2010). Short-term global health research projects by US medical students: ethical challenges for partnerships. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene83(2), 211-214.
  • Suchdev, P., Ahrens, K., Click, E., Macklin, L., Evangelista, D., & Graham, E. (2007). A model for sustainable short-term international medical trips.Ambulatory Pediatrics7(4), 317-320.

Week Three

International Human Subject Research
September 24, 2015 - Pre-Seminar  
  • Wolf, S. M., Lawrenz, F. P., Nelson, C. A., Kahn, J. P., Cho, M. K., Clayton, E. W., ... & Wilfond, B. S. (2008). Managing incidental findings in human subjects research: analysis and recommendations. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics36(2), 219-248.
  • Garrafa, V., Solbakk, J. H., Vidal, S., & Lorenzo, C. (2010). Between the needy and the greedy: the quest for a just and fair ethics of clinical research. Journal of Medical Ethics36(8), 500-504.
  • Emanuel, E. J., Wendler, D., & Grady, C. (2008). An ethical framework for biomedical research. The Oxford textbook of clinical research ethics, 123-135.
  • Benatar, S. R., & Singer, P. A. (2010). Responsibilities in international research: a new look revisited. Journal of Medical Ethics36(4), 194-197.

Week Four

Anant Bhan
October 1, 2015 - Seminar
  • Bhan, A., Singh, J. A., Upshur, R. E., Singer, P. A., & Daar, A. S. (2007). Grand challenges in global health: engaging civil society organizations in biomedical research in developing countries. PLoS medicine4(9).
  • Bhan, A. (2012). Clinical trial ethics in India: One step forward, two steps back. Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeutics3(2), 95-97.
  • Sugarman, J., Bhan, A., Bollinger, R., & Gupta, A. (2013). India’s new policy to protect research participants. BMJ: British Medical Journal347.
  • Rid, A., Saxena, A., Baqui, A. H., Bhan, A., Bines, J., Bouesseau, M. C., ... & Smith, P. G. (2014). Placebo use in vaccine trials: Recommendations of a WHO expert panel. Vaccine.

Week Five

Health Worker Migration
October 8, 2015 - Pre-Seminar
  • Mackey, T. K., & Liang, B. A. (2012). Rebalancing brain drain: exploring resource reallocation to address health worker migration and promote global health. Health policy107(1), 66-73.
  • Dimaya, R. M., McEwen, M. K., Curry, L. A., & Bradley, E. H. (2012). Managing health worker migration: a qualitative study of the Philippine response to nurse brain drain. Hum Resour Health10, 47.
  • Pylypa, J. (2013). Portrayals of Global Health Worker Migration in Canadian Print News Media: Domestic Concerns vs. Global Awareness. Journal of International Migration and Integration14(1), 81-97.
  • Asongu, S. A. (2012). The impact of health worker migration on development dynamics: evidence of wealth effects from Africa. The European Journal of Health Economics, 1-15.

Week Six

Ronald Labonté
October 15, 2015 - Seminar
  • Runnels, V., Labonté, R., & Packer, C. (2011). Reflections on the ethics of recruiting foreign-trained human resources for health. Human resources for health9(2), e1-e11.
  • Packer, C., Labonté, R., & Runnels, V. (2009). Globalization and the cross-border flow of health workers. Globalization and health: pathways, evidence and policy, 213-234.
  • Labonté, R., Packer, C., & Klassen, N. (2006). Managing health professional migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Canada: a stakeholder inquiry into policy options. Human Resources for Health4(1), 22.
  • Labonte, R., Packer, C., Klassen, N., Kazanjian, A., Apland, L., Adalikwu, J., ... & Zakus, D. (2007). The brain drain of health professionals from sub-Saharan Africa to Canada: Some findings and policy options. African migration and development 1-75.

Week Seven

Medical Tourism to Low and Middle Income Countries
October 22, 2015 - Pre-Seminar
  • Hall, C. M. (2011). Health and medical tourism: a kill or cure for global public health?. Tourism Review66(1/2), 4-15.
  • Pocock, N. S., & Phua, K. H. (2011). Medical tourism and policy implications for health systems: a conceptual framework from a comparative study of Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. Globalization and Health7(1), 12.
  • Ormond M. 2011. Shifting subjects of health-care: Placing ‘medical tourism’ in the context of Malaysian domestic health-care reform. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 52(3): 247-259.
  • Chen, Y. Y., & Flood, C. M. (2013). Medical Tourism's Impact on Health Care Equity and Access in Low‐and Middle‐Income Countries: Making the Case for Regulation. The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics41(1), 286-300.

Week Eight

Rupa Chanda
October 29, 2015 - Seminar
  • Reddy, S., & Qadeer, I. (2010). Medical tourism in India: Progress or predicament. Economic and Political Weekly45(20), 69-75.
  • Sengupta, A. (2011). Medical tourism: reverse subsidy for the elite. Signs36(2), 312–319;
  • Smith, R. D., Chanda, R., & Tangcharoensathien, V. (2009). Trade in health-related services. The Lancet373(9663), 593-601.
  • Smith, R., Martínez Álvarez, M., & Chanda, R. (2011). Medical tourism: a review of the literature and analysis of a role for bi-lateral trade. Health Policy,103(2), 276-282.

Week Nine

Medical Tourism to Canada
November 5, 2015 - Pre-Seminar
  • Snyder, J., Crooks, V. A., Johnston, R., & Kingsbury, P. (2011). What do we know about Canadian involvement in medical tourism? A scoping review. Open Medicine5(3), 139-148.
  • Turner, L. (2007). Medical tourism Family medicine and international health-related travel. Canadian Family Physician53(10), 1639-1641.
  • Turner, L. (2012). Canada’s turbulent medical tourism industry. Canadian Family Physician58(4), 371-373.
  • Birch, D. W., Vu, L., Karmali, S., Stoklossa, C. J., & Sharma, A. M. (2010). Medical tourism in bariatric surgery. The American Journal of Surgery199(5), 604-608.

Week Ten

Monika Dutt
November 12, 2015 - Seminar

Week Eleven

Circumvention Tourism
November 12, 2015 - Pre-Seminar
  • Zarzeczny, A., & Caulfield, T. (2010). Stem cell tourism and doctors' duties to minors—a view from Canada. The American Journal of Bioethics10(5), 3-15.
  • Deonandan, R., Green, S., & van Beinum, A. (2012). Ethical concerns for maternal surrogacy and reproductive tourism. Journal of medical ethics38(12), 742-745.
  • Bagheri, A., & Delmonico, F. L. (2013). Global initiatives to tackle organ trafficking and transplant tourism. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy16(4), 887-895.
  • Pullman, D., Zarzeczny, A., & Picard, A. (2013). Media, politics and science policy: MS and evidence from the CCSVI Trenches. BMC medical ethics14(1), 6.

Week Twelve

Glenn Cohen
November 26, 2015 - Seminar

Cohen, I. G. (2011). Circumvention tourism. Cornell L. Rev.97, 1309-1398.

Cohen, I. G. (2012). How to regulate medical tourism (and why it matters for bioethics). Developing world bioethics12(1), 9-20.

Cohen, I. G. (2012). Medical Outlaws or Medical Refugees?: An Examination of Circumvention Tourism. Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services, 207-229.

Glenn Cohen, I. (2012). SH and Others v. Austria and circumvention tourism.Reproductive biomedicine online25(7), 660-662.

Week Thirteen

Capstone Presentations
December 3, 2015

No readings.