CFP: The Architecture of Helathcare: Rights, Determinants and Emerging Technologies

2027 Conference CFA Portal | Institute for Healthcare Access

Access to healthcare is not a single thing. It is a structure: a layered arrangement of legal entitlements, eligibility rules, institutional gatekeeping, professional norms, geography and, increasingly, automated decision systems. When access fails, it rarely fails because someone decided it should. It fails because the structure was built that way.

This conference examines that construction through three interlocking components: rights, determinants and emerging technologies. Our organizing premise is that the social determinants of health are not merely epidemiological variables. They are institutional facts, constituted and sustained by law, and therefore open to philosophical analysis and legal reform. Rights define what people may claim, what institutions owe and what remedies are available when systems fail. Structural determinants shape the conditions under which health and access become possible. Emerging technologies increasingly mediate how needs are recognized, evidence is produced, decisions are made and resources are distributed.

The Architecture of Healthcare Access: Rights, Determinants and Emerging Technologies Conference brings together philosophers, legal scholars, practicing lawyers, clinicians, health policy researchers, engineers and business leaders to examine that structure directly. We ask how it is built, how its components interact, whom it leaves out and how it can be repaired.

Save the date for April 15-16, 2027, and join the conversation. Abstracts may be submitted through Dec. 11, 2026.