8:40-9:15

Registration

9:15-9:30

Opening

                    Donald TF Shan(商東福代理處長), Acting Director-General, Bureau of    International Cooperation, Department of Health, Taiwan

Professor Chang-Fa Lo (羅昌發教授), College of Law, National Taiwan University

9:30-12:30

Health Care and International Cooperation

Speaker: Dr. Peter Scherer,

Counsellor to the Director of the Employment,

Labour and Social Affairs Directorate at the OECD

Topic: The Challenge of Financing Health Care in the Current Crisis.

Professor Yuichi Imanaka,

Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management,Kyoto University, Japan

Topic: Economics and Policy on Quality of Care in Japan

Speaker: Professor Che-Ming Yang (楊哲銘教授), Taipei Medical University

Topic: “The Road to Observership in the World Health Assembly:

Perspectives from Taiwan’s Journey”

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-17:00

(with a 10-minute tea break)

Health Insurance and Human Rights

Speaker: George E. Edwards,

Professor of Law, Director, Program in International Human Rights Law,

External Faculty Director, Graduate Program,

Co-Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee, Indiana University School of Law

Topic: Human Rights, Health and International Trade:

 From the 17^th Century Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the 21^stCentury Right to Health –

The Case of Hurricane Katrina

Speaker: Mr. Ki Jong Yoon (尹基宗),

Ph.D Course at the Graduate School of Korea University

Topic: A Research of the Remedy for Violation of Right in Korean Health Insurance System

Speaker: Dr. Chuan-feng Wu (吳全峰博士),

   Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Topic: Technology Development and Health Care Distribution

9:30-12:30

Broader Perspective on Environment and Specific Health Issues

Speaker: Professor David Smith, School of Law,

Singapore Management University, Singapore

Topic: The Way We Think: Ethics, Health and the Environment in International Business

Speaker: Professor Tsai-yu Lin (林彩瑜教授),

Professor of Law, Department of International Business, Soochow University, Taiwan

Topic: Disease Controls, Trade Restrictions and WHO International Health

Regulations: Lessons from 2009 A/H1N1 Influenza Outbreaks

Speaker: Mr. Yasushi Takahashi (高橋靖),

Ph.D. Program in Law, College of Law, National Taiwan University

Topic: Policy Issues concerning Cognitive Enhancement Drug: Ready to Get on theBandwagon"?

Speaker: Ms. Wan-tsui Chiang (江浣翠),

SJD Candidate, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington

Topic: Rethinking Taiwan's Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Program with a Perspective of

Universal Access

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-16:00

Health, Intellectual Property and FTA

Speaker: Su-Hua Lee (李素華教授),

Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University

Topic: Patent Protection for Essential Biomedical Inventions and Its Impacts on the

Implementation of Public Health Policy

Speaker: Professor Pei-kan Yang (楊培侃教授),

Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Financial and Economic Law,

Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Topic: “A Survey of Free Trade Agreements on Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: Recent

Trend, Policy Debate and Legal Issue from a North/South v. South/South FTA Perspective”

Professor Chang-fa Lo (羅昌發教授),

College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Topic: Intellectual Property Protection and FTA: The Types of TRIPS-Plus and the Extent Allowed

under WTO

16:00-16:10

Closing