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The Fondation Brocher is an essential player in this vital thinking process: one which will help make us aware of the real challenges in using our resources for maximum impact on the health of the people of the world.

 

 

Professor Daniel Wikler, Harvard University

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March 5, 2020

Researchers presentations

Organizers:

Thursday, March 5th, 2020

 

09h00: Zuradzki Tomasz, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Philosophy & Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Assistant Professor, Bioethics - Medical ethics

  • Deep uncertainties in bioethics

 

09h20: Yarborough Mark, University of California Davis, Dean's Professor, Bioethics - Medical ethics

  • Deserving the Public's Trust

 

09h40: Staunton Ciara, Middlesex University, Senior Lecturer, Law

  • Trust, accountability and the use of health data in research in Africa

 

10h00: Siegl Veronika, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern - Dre-Des., lecturer

Anthropology

  • Finalising the book manuscript for my thesis "Fragile Truths"

 

10h20: Komparic Ana , University of Toronto, PhD Candidate, Bioethics, medical ethics

  • An Ethical and Political Analysis of the Private Sector in Health

 

10h40 - 10h55: coffee break

 

11h00: Henschke Adam, National Security College, Australian National University / Delft University of Technology, Senior Lecturer, bioethics, medical ethics

  • Disrupting Healthcare With Healthwear And Healthware

 

11h20: Gagné-Julien Anne-Marie, Université du Québec, Montréal, PhD Student, Philosophy

  • The Concept of Mental Health Between Facts and Values

 

11h40: Campos Luis, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Associate Professor, Science and technology studies

  • Invoking Asilomar: Ethics as Tactics from the Dawn of Genetic Engineering to Synthetic Biology

 

12h00: Comfort Nathaniel, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Professor of History of Medicine, History of Medicine

  • The Nature and Nurture of James D. Watson

 

12h20 - 13h30 - Buffet lunch served by the Foundation in the Brocher Centre

 

13h30: Dupras Charles, University of Montreal, Montreal, Postdoctoral Fellow, bioethics, Medical ethics

  • Promoting human rights in the postgenomic era: On the need to integrate epigenetics in international declarations on genomics and bioethics

 

13h50: Liu Joanne, University of Montreal, Dre, Medicine

  • Security agenda impact on responses to global humanitarian crises

 

14h10 End of presentations