29th Annual World Congress on Medical Law
29th Annual World Congress on Medical Law is organized by World Association for Medical Law (WAML) and will be held from Aug 06 - 08, 2025 at Istanbul, Turkey.
Main Topics:
1- Vulnerability: respect and protection:
• Defining vulnerability
• Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants
• Affirmative policies for vulnerable
• Prioritizing among vulnerable groups
• Informed consent process in vulnerable
• Research in vulnerable groups
• Social policies
• Health law and vulnerable groups
• Social justice and vulnerability
2-Gender issues:
• Women
• Health disparities
• Affirmative policies in health
• Elderly women and social inequalities
• Research in pregnant women
• Teenage pregnancy
• Cultural and religious barriers for women’s’ health
• LGBTQ barriers to health/ inequalities in health
• LGBTQ and
• Communicable diseases& STDs
• Psychological disorders
• Social exclusion
• Social determinants of health
• Health law
• Refugees and LGBTQ
• Health inequalities
• Barriers to health services
• Discrimination in health institutions
• Anti discriminatory policies
3- Patient safety:
• Patient safety in NICU / long term care facilities for elderly/ Intensive care units
• Accreditation of health institutions
• Economic and legal implications
• Health law on patient safety
• Effect of communication barriers to patient safety
• Health policies and patient safety
• Patient safety in primary health care
• Health technology and patient safety
• Gene therapy/ genetic research and patient safety
• EWRS (early warning and response systems) and patient safety
• New emerging pandemics and patient safety
4- Human rights in medicine and law:
• Defining human right violations in medical services
• Public health and human rights
• Anti discrimination and health law
• Anti stigmatization and health law
• Human rights in mental illness
• How to uncover human rights violations in health institutions
• Genetic screening and human rights
• Health insurance and human rights
• Data protection /data confidentiality and human rights
• Heath data as a risk for discrimination
