I am a philosopher and health ethicist currently from Ghana, who is currently the Ethics Lead for the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford.

My interest and work in bioethics are conceptual and empirical. On the former, I work around challenging some of the underlying conceptual frameworks informing bioethics by drawing on philosophical conceptualizations, African and non-African, that address inequity in the relationships that govern current approaches to global health with an eye to decolonization, de-imperialization, and pluriversality.  In 2019, I co-edited a volume titled Bioethics in Africa, which discusses bioethical problems from an African perspective.

At the empirical level, I have worked to design a training package in clinical ethics for nursing trainees in Ghana based on real-life cases. I have also been involved in IRB work and the design and teaching of an MSc in bioethics at the University of Ghana. I have done 3 years of research on how to handle ethics in mental healthcare, especially in relation to persons who hold cultural-religious beliefs about the mind.

I am a Member of WHO’s Covid-19 Ethics and Governance Working Group and was heavily invested in designing the ethical allocation framework for the new RTS/S anti-malaria vaccine for the WHO. I am also a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research.

Christiane Woopen studied human medicine and philosophy in Cologne, Bonn and Hagen. She holds the first Hertz Chair at the University of Bonn and is founding the “Center for Life Ethics”. Before she was founding and Executive Director of the interfaculty center CERES at the University of Cologne. She was Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies for the European Commission, Chair of the German Ethics Council, President of the 11th Global Summit of National Ethics/Bioethics Committees and Member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO.

Source: https://www.lifeethics.uni-bonn.de

https://ceres.uni-koeln.de/en/ueber-ceres/personen/team/prof-dr-christiane-woopen;

Dr. Derrick Aarons MB.BS.(UWI), M.Sc.(Bioethics), PhD (McGill) is a Consultant Bioethicist and family physician who is currently serving as a member and project coordinator of the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO.  He is also the Ethics Consultant for the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), serving the 24 member states across the Caribbean, adjunct faculty in the Department of Bioethics, Clarkson University, USA, and Consultant for the Center for Global Bioethics, St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies.  Dr. Aarons has served as a member of the International Advisory Board for Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and as Deputy Chairman for the National Bioethics Committee of Jamaica. He was the Convenor and Founding President of the Bioethics Society of the English-speaking Caribbean (BSEC).

Dr. Farhat Moazam is Professor and Founding Chairperson of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture (CBEC) of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in  Karachi, Pakistan. CBEC was designated a WHO Collaborative Centre for Bioethics for the Eastern Mediterranean Region in 2017. Dr. Moazam was previously Founding Chairperson of the Department of Surgery, and the first Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education in the Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi. She is a pediatric surgeon by training with an MA in Bioethics and a doctorate (2004) from the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, USA.

Dr. Moazam is Fellow of the Institute of Practical Ethics and Visiting Professor, Centre for Humanism in Medicine, UVA, and International Fellow of The Hastings Center, New York. She has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Zurich, Switzerland (2012), and is a member of the National Bioethics Committee, Pakistan. She has participated in various national and international conferences, and has authored many articles relating to pediatric surgery, medical education and bioethics.

Henk ten Have is a retired full professor of medical ethics. In September 2003, he moved to UNESCO as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology. Since then, Ten Have has set up several UNESCO programs to implement the Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted by all member states of UNESCO on 19 October 2005, such as the Ethics Education program and the National Bioethics Committees program. From 2010 – 2018, he was Director of the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

Source: www.duq.edu/academics/faculty/henk-ten-have

Hervé Chneiweiss (MD-PhD) is a neurologist and neuroscientist, research director at the CNRS, he has been involved in neurogenetic research, the molecular mechanisms involved in glial plasticity and the development of brain tumors. He is currently director of the Neuroscience Paris Seine – IBPS research center (CNRS/Inserm/ Sorbonne University).

HC is also involved in bioethics, adviser for life sciences and bioethics to the Minister of Research and Technology (2000-02), member of the Scientific Council of the French Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Techniques assesment (2003-16), member of the French National Ethics Committee (2013-17), member and chairman of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (2014-21), member of the WHO committee on Human genome editing  governance (2019-21), expert in ethics of neurotechnology for OECD (2015-19), and chairman of the Inserm Ethics Committee since 2013. He has published several books for the general public (latest: “Notre cerveau”, L’Iconoclaste, 2019).

Ilona Kickbusch is the Founder and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She is a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. She acts as Council Chair to the World Health Summit in Berlin and is vice-president of the European Health Forum Gastein. She is co-chair of a Lancet FT Commission on “Governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world.” Professor Kickbusch has had a distinguished career with the World Health Organization.

Source: www.ilonakickbusch.com/kickbusch-wAssets/docs/bio_kickbusch_2021.pdf

Prof Jerome Amir Singh (BA, LLB, LLM, MHSc, PhD) serves as the Principal Investigator of the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE), which operates under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa (ASSAf). He is Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and Honorary Research Fellow at the Howard College School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. Prof Singh serves as an ad hoc Consultant to several United Nation entities, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNAIDS, and UNICEF. He currently serves on several advisory and oversight bodies related to humanitarian and emergency issues, including the International Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He has served as a consultant to the WHO on several global health issues, including H5N1, XDR-TB, HIV, malaria, Artificial Intelligence, and gene drive research. He has also served as an advisor to the WHO on identifying and connecting known, new or emerging issues that could significantly impact global health. In 2017, Prof Singh was appointed by the WHO Director-General (DG) to serve as a member of WHO’s International Health Regulations ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ Expert Roster. In 2020, he was appointed by the WHO DG to serve as a member of the WHO’s Ad Hoc Research Ethics Review Committee (ERC) for COVID-19. He also serves on the WHO COVID-19 Ethics & Governance Working Group, and the WHO Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for Emergency Use Listing of COVID-19 vaccines. Prof Singh co-chairs the US NIH-funded Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trial Network (HPTN) and serves as a member of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Legal and Human Rights Technical Task Team, and the Bioethics Advisory Panel of the South African Medical Research Council (SA MRC). He has previously co-directed the Ethical, Social, and Cultural Issues Advisory Services of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative. 

Source: www.samrc.ac.za/people/prof-jerome-singh 

Kolitha Wickramage is the UN Migration Agencies’ Global Health Research and Epidemiology Coordinator responsible for providing technical guidance on research and evidence generation across IOM’s three health programmatic areas: medical examinations for migrants and refugees; technical cooperation on migration health with member states; and health action in humanitarian and post-crisis contexts. He worked with WHO from 2004 in health action in crisis projects, from protracted civil conflict to natural disaster settings.

Source: https://migrationhealthresearch.iom.int/users/kolitha-wickramage

Maria João Valente Rosa is Doctor in Sociology (PhD) – Demography (1993), by NOVA FCSH. Professor at the Department of Sociology at NOVA FCSH since 1993.

She is a member of the executive board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) since 2015, member of the Portuguese Statistical Council (CSE), as a personality of recognized scientific merit and independence, since 2012, and researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA).

From 2009 to 2019, she coordinated the PORDATA: Contemporary Portugal database, a Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation (FFMS) project. She was Deputy Director General of the Office of Planning, Strategy, Evaluation and International Relations, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (2007-2009), General Director of the Office of Information and Evaluation of the Educational System, Ministry of Education (2005-2006), and vice president of the Science and Technology Foundation,  Ministry of Science and Technology (2000-2002).

Author and co-author of numerous publications on demography, ageing, contemporary Portuguese society and statistical literacy.

Ross Upshur BA (Hons.), MA, MD, MSc, MCFP, FRCPC, FCAHS is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Associate Director of the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health.  At the University of Toronto, he is a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, affiliate member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Member of the Centre for Environment, Member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics and Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is a Staff Physician at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, Sinai Health. During COVID-19 he has served as the co-Chair of the WHO Ethics and COVID-19 Working group and is a member of the WHO ACTA Ethics and Governance Working Group.  He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Soumya Swaminathan, Paediatrician, was appointed WHO’s first Chief Scientist in March 2019. Swaminathan was Secretary to the Government of India for Health Research and Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research from 2015 to 2017. From 2009 to 2011, she also served as Coordinator of the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in Geneva. Delegation of authority from WHO Director-General.

Source: www.wma.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Swaminathan-WMA-Bio-6-9-2021.pdf