Webinar Public Services 

16.4.2021 7pm-9pm (Bruxelles) – with English, Italian, French, Greek and Spanish Translations (Z00m)

Join us on April 16th from 19:00 pm (Bruxelles) for the online event “During and after the pandemic: what health politics in Europe?”. The webinar organized by the Public Services WG of the European Left will focus on the current covid -19 epidemiological situation through the lens of the differences and disparities among health care systems in Europe.

We will debate possible solutions to the ongoing healthcare crisis exacerbated by decades of neoliberal policies, and we will analyse concrete solution and how to fight inequalities and differences in the right to safe access to health care services and treatment, after decades of neoliberal policies.

Speakers include: Loretta Mussi – Doctor, specialized in preventive medicine and health law. Director of Health of major Italian public hospitals. Medical Director of Public Health (Italy), Yiannis Baskozos – Doctor in endocrinology, former General Secretary of the Health Ministry, advisor at WHO (Greece), Karsten Vrangbæk – Professor, Director of Health Economics and Policy (CHEP), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Antoni Barbarà Molina, Doctor and social activist. Specialist in Internal Medicine and consultant in Public Health, with  51 years of clinical practice. Founder of social organisations such as DEMPEUS por la Salud Pública and the Marea Blanca de Catalunya, and of the Coordinadora Estatal de Mareas Blancas (Spain), Ana Vračar, Regional coordinator of People’s Health Movement. Expert in the health workforce particularly trades unionisation and organization of health workers. Project coordinator in the Organisation for Workers’ Initiative and Democratisation (OWID). Researcher in the field of commercialisation and privatisation of health care in Croatia (Croatia), Sabrina Ali, Doctor and an activist of the social care system. Author of the book “The revolt of an intern – Health and hospital in a state of emergency (France). The event will be moderated by Stavros Stellas – Coordinator of the WG Public Service of the EL (Syriza).

Please find here the link to join the conference via Zoom (with English, Italian, French, Greek and Spanish translations)

(the event will be broadcasted on the EL Facebook page)