9.45 - 10.15

Registration and coffee

10.15 - 10.30

Welcome

10.30 - 11.30

Keynote

Allyson M. Pollock (Centre for Health Sciences, Queen Mary's University, UK)
How Data Requirements Influence Health System Goals: The Case Of Risk Equalization Mechanisms

11.30 - 13.00

Session 1

Wendell Potter (Centre for Media and Democracy, USA)
Producing Public Opinion: How The Insurance Industry Is Shaping Us Health Care Reform

Meri Koivusalo (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland)
We Are All In This Together – European Policies And Change In Health Care Governance  

13.00 - 14.00 

Lunch 

14.00 - 15.45

Session 2

Nick Manning (Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham/ Notts HC NHS Trust)
Consequences Of Rapid Economic And Social Change For Health And Health Policy: A Comparison Of Russia And China

Michele Rivkin-Fish (Department Of Anthropology, University Of North Carolina, USA)
Rethinking Problems Surrounding Access To Care: The Moral Economies Shaping Health Care Work Forces in Russia and the U.S.

15.45 - 16.00 

Coffee/Tea 

16.00 - 16.45 

Session 3

Peggy Watson (Department Of Sociology, University Of Cambridge, UK)
Catastrophic Citizenship: The Political Space Of Poland’s Health Care Reform

16.45 - 17.15

End of day discussion

9.30 - 11.00

Coffee available

Session 4

Anna Lora-Wainwright (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK)
‘If You Can Walk And Eat, You Don’t Go To Hospital’ – The Quest For Health Care In Rural Sichuan

Matthew Yu Wang (Department Of Geography, University Of Cambridge, UK)
?A Geospatial Analysis Of Community Health Services In Jinan, China: Access To Services And Health Outcomes

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee/Tea 

11.30  - 13.00

Session 5

Larry King & Piotr Ozieranski (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK)
Who Rules Postcommunism? The Case Of Drug Reimbursement In Poland

Terry Cox (School Of Slavonic, Central And East European Studies, University Of Glasgow, UK)
Sandor Gallai (Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary)
The Making Of Health Care Policy In Hungary: The Case Of Hospital Privatisation

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 15.30

Session 6

Howard Waitzkin & Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar (Department Of Sociology, Family & Community Medicine, And Internal Medicine, University Of New Mexico, USA)
Popular Protest And The Reimagining Of Health Rights

Panel-Led Discussion of Issues/Questions/Themes Emerging from the Conference (to be recorded)

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee/tea