Speakers & Moderators
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Caesar Atuire
GHANA -
Christiane Woopen
GERMANY -
Derrick Aarons
UNESCO-REDBIOETICA -
Farhat Moazam
PAKISTAN -
Henk ten Have
THE NETHERLANDS -
Hervé Chneiweiss
FRANCE -
Ilona Kickbusch
GERMANY -
Jerome Singh
SOUTH AFRICA -
Maria João Valente Rosa
PORTUGAL -
Radheshyam Krishna
KC -
Ross Upshur
CANADA -
Soumya Swaminathan
WHO
Caesar Atuire
GHANA
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
GERMANY
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;
Derrick Aarons
UNESCO-REDBIOETICA
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).
Farhat Moazam
PAKISTAN
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
THE NETHERLANDS
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.
Hervé Chneiweiss
FRANCE
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
GERMANY
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
Jerome Singh
SOUTH AFRICA
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.
Maria João Valente Rosa
PORTUGAL
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.
Radheshyam Krishna
KC
Radheshyam Krishna KC is a public health professional with more than ten years of experience in various domains of public health. For the last six years, he has been involved with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the implementation/management of migration health programs, policy advocacy and research. He is currently working with the IOM Libya mission supporting the migration health projects for Covid-19 response, Tuberculosis and global health security through the application of IOM’s health border and mobility management framework. He believes in research as a tool for public health advocacy, program design and implementation, and the research ethics is never to be forgotten
Ross Upshur
CANADA
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
WHO
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
13th Global Summit 2022 Scientific Program – Practical notes
General information:
The working language of the Summit is English. Simultaneous translation to French and Spanish will be provided.
Recording disclaimer: the sessions will be video recorded. Personal data will be processed in compliance with the GDPR – European General Data Protection Regulation.
Portugal does not have pandemic restrictions regarding scientific and cultural events at this time.
On behalf of WHO, basic respiratory etiquette / use of masks is encouraged. Disposable masks and hand sanitizer will be available at the venue.
Presentations:
Visual presentations both in Microsoft PowerPoint format 16:9 and in PDF should be sent to [email protected] prior to the event – deadline 9 September.
It is advised that all speakers bring a back-up of their PPTs on a memory stick. Please refer to the technical team before your session to review, load and test your presentation. The venue will have indications for this purpose.
The conference room will be equipped with a projector, screen and laptop computer. Laser pointer and microphones for your use. Technical support will be provided.
Forum setup: on the platform of the Auditorium (Plenary Sessions and parallel sessions a) or Conference Room 1 (Parallel sessions b) there will be a presidency table for the panel members and a podium from where presentations should be delivered.
Each presentation should remain within the allotted time, to give ample time for debate. It is critical to stay on schedule so that attendees may move between sessions as needed.
A – Plenary Sessions
A.1. Introduction (WHO, CDBIO, EGE, IBC UNESCO)
- The introduction should focus on the relevance of the plenary session respective topic and should not exceed two to three minutes.
- After the introduction, the floor is given to the plenary session moderator, who will introduce the speakers according to the biopics that were provided and are online.
- At the end of the session, after the respondent NECs, you are also invited to deliver Closing remarks, one up to two minutes.
- Strict observance of time is kindly requested.
A.2. Moderation
- After the introduction, the floor will be given by the representative of the invited organization (WHO, CDBIO, EGE, IBC UNESCO) to the moderator, who will proceed to present each speaker (according to the short synopses that were provided and are online).
- At the end of the three keynote presentations, to start the debate, the moderator will invite two NECs to pose a question or comment, namely related to their local experience, with the aim of stimulating the debate.
- The moderator will also manage the ensuing debate, taking questions while ensuring that time is scrupulously respected;
- After wrap-up of the debate, the floor is given to the representative of the invited organization, who will deliver closing remarks, one up to two minutes.
A.3. Plenary session speakers
- Each presentation will deliver a talk of up to 20 minutes.
- Please refer to the general guidance for presentations provided above.
- Strict observance of time is kindly requested.
A.4. Respondent NECs
- At the end of the three keynote presentations, to start the debate, the moderator will invite two NECs to pose a question or comment, namely related to their local experience, with the aim of stimulating the debate.
- Each NEC will have a maximum of two minutes for this purpose. The order of intervention will be communicated in advance to the moderator and to each invited country.
B – Parallel Sessions
B.1. Moderation
The moderator will proceed to present the topic and introduce each speaker (short synopses will be provided).
At the end of the presentations, the moderator will also manage the ensuing debate, taking questions while ensuring that time is scrupulously respected (10 to 12 minutes per presentation).
After the debate, the moderator can deliver a brief take home message and close the session.
B.2. Parallel Session Speakers
- Each presentation will deliver a talk of up to 10 minutes, to give ample time for discussion.
- Please refer to the general guidance for presentations provided above.
- Strict observance of time is kindly requested.
C – E-Posters
The 13th Global Summit of National Ethics Committees welcomes digital posters focusing on presenting your institution/NEC and showcasing your recent activity. The e-posters will be exhibited in widescreen, slideshow format (moving presentation), in the venue’s hall, for the duration of the meeting, and on the Summit’s official website. A link/QR code to the conference website will also be available.
Useful information for your e-poster configuration
- Recommended working language: English
- ideal resolution (in pixel) – 1920 x 1080, landscape orientation
- one single slide or up to two slides may be presented per e-poster
- We recommend a font size no smaller than 18 (Arial, Times New Roman)
- Please send us your e-poster in pptx as well as pdf-format to ensure maximum quality, by 9 September at the latest
- The e-posters will be displayed without being presented
D – Printed materials
Conference Room 1 will have a table set throughout the conference for those NECs and organizations who wish to showcase and offer some publications and any other printed materials. Please let us know of your intention to use the table so that the secretariat may organise the available spaces.
E – Webstream on 17 September
This session will be streamed live in the Summit website https://globalsummitlisbon.com/, listening mode, with no need to register to the session. However, viewers are not able to take the floor, answer polls or use the chat.
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