Walter Brown This is Me

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1. 1. Civitatis International

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   Published on: 2/11/2007   Last Visited: 11/17/2007

   WALTER BROWN has an MA from Rhodes University, South Africa, where his thesis was entitled "Patents, Pills, Poverty and Pandemic: the ethical issues." He was later a researcher in the Policy and Public Affairs Department of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the largest HIV/AIDS organisation in Europe. Currently Walter is at the Social Care Institute for Excellence, set up by the UK government to promote best practice in social care. His interests include: coordinated multi-national policies on health and social care; public health law, confidentiality and HIV transmission; interrelationships between the health and social care needs of those affected by pandemics; and the ethics of patenting life-saving medication during states of pandemic and the general ownership of life-saving treatments. He is also interested in metaphysics, ethics, the evolution of the nation-state, globalisation, the relationship between global public health and the nation-state and how religion impacts on policy. Walter is also a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust.