Congress organisation

Hosting organisation

The Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel (IBMB) is a vibrant research and teaching center that engages in ethical issues relevant to medicine and the sciences. The Institute was founded in 2011 and is affiliated with both the Science and Medical Faculties at the University of Basel. The IBMB is a team of PhD students, post-docs and senior researchers working on a wide variety of projects in biomedical ethics. IBMB’s researchers are committed to an interdisciplinary endeavour and our research combines empirical fieldwork with normative, theoretical analysis. IBMB members are also highly involved in teaching, providing ethics courses for undergraduate students and postgraduate scientists and doctors.
https://ibmb.unibas.ch

In association with

International Association of Bioethics

The International Association of Bioethics (IAB) facilitates contact, networking and exchange of ideas and resources amongst those working in bioethics and related fields in different parts of the world.
With the World Congress of Bioethics the IAB organizes bi-annually the largest gathering of bioethics scholars and thought-leaders in the world.
http://iab-website.iab-secretariat.org/

International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is a network of activists and scholars working in the field of feminist bioethics.
https://www.fabnet.org/

Organizing committee

PD Dr. Tenzin Wangmo, Chair
Senior Researcher, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel
Prof. Bernice S. Elger, Co-Chair,
Head of the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel
Anne-Christine Loschnigg, MA., Congress Coordinator
Administration, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel
Maddalena Favaretto, Congress Coordinator
Post-doc, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel

Scientific Advisory Committee (World Congress of Bioethics)

North America:

Pullman Darly, MA, PhD - Professor; Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John's, Canada
Ravitsky Vardit, PhD - Associate professor; Bioethics Programs, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Canada
Schmidt Harald, MA, PhD - Assistant professor; Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

South America:

Luna Florencia, MA, PhD - Prof.; Bioethics Program, Facultad Latinoamerica de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO–CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mastroleo Ignacio , PhD - Prof.; Bioethics Program, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Department of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Western Europe:

de Clercq Eva, PhD - Senior researcher; Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
Gennet Eloise, PhD - Post Doc; French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm), University Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Gordijn Bert, PhD - Prof.; Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Hurst Samia, PhD - Prof.; Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities & Department of Community Health and Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Hofmann Bjørn, PhD - Professor; Department of Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; and Department of Health Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjøvik, Norway
Holm Søren, PhD - Prof.; Department of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; and Center for Medical Ethics, HELSAM, University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine, Oslo, Norway
Mertes Heidi, PhD - Prof.; Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Shaw David, PhD - Senior researcher; Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland; and Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Eastern Europe:

Mihailov Emilian, PhD - Senior researcher; Research Centre in Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Paladi Adriana, PhD - Prof.; Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, State University of Medicine and Pharmaceutics „Nicolae Testemiţanu". Chisinau, Moldova

Asia:

Arawi Thalia, PhD - Prof.; American University of Beirut, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Gopichandran Vijayaprasad, MD PhD - Assistant Prof.; Department of Community Medicine, ESIC Medical College and PGIMSR, Chennai, India
Yamamoto Keiichiro, PhD - Prof.; Department of Biomedical Ethics, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Africa:

Anane-Sarpong Evelyn, Dr. sc med MPH MSc - Lecturer; Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Kamuya Dorcas, PhD - Senior researcher; KEMRI‐Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Australia & Oceania:

Ballantyne Angela, PhD - Prof.; Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice and the Bioethics Center, Otago University, Wellington, New Zealand
Dawson Angus, PhD - Prof.; Sydney Health Ethics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Johnston Josephine - Director of Research, Research Scholar; The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York, USA

Scientific Advisory Committee (Feminist Approaches to Bioethics)

Scully Jackie Leach, Prof., University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Victor Elizabeth, Prof., William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
Lindemann Hilde, Prof., Michigan State University, East Lancing, USA