Gilles de Wildt, M.D.

Family Doctor and Honorary University Lecturer
People’s Health Movement
17 Jiggins Lane Medical Centre
Bartley Green
Birmingham B32 3LE
United Kingdom

Fax: 44 121 4759171
Web: www.phmovement.org

BIO:

Gilles de Wildt is a family doctor (General Practitioner) and Honorary University Lecturer in Birmingham, UK. Previously, he worked in public health and hospital care in the Netherlands, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. He holds an MSc Community Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

He spends time advocating health for all by teaching about global health issues and lobbying, as well as contributing to the formulation of equitable health policies. He is a member of the working party on economic policy and health of MEDACT (www.medact.org). MEDACT is a non-partisan NGO, challenging barriers to health and is affiliated with the People’s Health Movement, a world wide coalition of health-related NGOs (www.phmovement.org). Gilles de Wildt represented the PHM (then People’s Health Assembly) at the World Health Organisation’s hearing on the genome in Geneva in June 2001. WHO’s report addressed some of the concerns expressed by civil society.

He is a member of the "Health Inequalities Standing Group” of the UK Royal College of General Practitioners (www.rcgp.org.uk) which promotes policies aimed at improving health care and social conditions of deprived groups in society. He has been active in the field of Human Rights and Health, also as a past board member of the Dutch Johannes Wier Foundation for Health and Human Rights (www.johannes-wier.nl).

He recently co-edited a book on housing, health and the role of primary care. He (co-)authored articles in medical journals and presentations on topics such as racism and primary care; challenges to trust in health care posed by for-profit liberalisation and by applications of the human genome; health and human rights; ethical issues in HIV; equity and health systems; quality assurance and governance in health care and international health aid. His wife is also a health professional. They have two children, aged 5 and 7.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKER:

• Presenter in working group Gender-Genetic Futures I: Women’s, Family and Children’s Health Perspectives
  13 October (during 15:00-16:30): "The Genome: A Challenge to Trust in Health Care and Equity"
• Speaker on Panel 7 & Discussion: Policy, Politics, and Action: Where to from Here?
  15 October (during 9:00-10:20): "The Biomedical Challenge for World Civil Society"

SUBMITTED DOCUMENTS:

• World Genomics and World Health Organisation, June 2001: People's Health Assembly's position by Gilles de Wildt