"European Commission-UNESCO Conference: Joint Action for Capacity-building in Bioethics"

Date: 11/26/2009, 09:30h to 11/28/2009, 17:00h

Location:
Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel
Avenida Juarez 70
Colonia Centro
Mexico City

Further information: http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12679&URL_DO=D...

Description: With the aim to strengthen the national bioethics infrastructures, and in particular to assist in the establishment and capacity-building of independent, multidisciplinary and pluralist national ethics committees, the conference will bring together experts and members of the newly established, currently forming and long-standing National Bioethics Committees (NBCs) from various parts of the world.

The Conference will be structured around three major themes:

• Emerging Bioethics Issues - local perspectives from the newly established and experienced National Bioethics Committees (series of presentations and discussions on bioethics topics relevant in different regions of the globe, and the national institutional mechanisms for addressing them).

• Building an international network – devising a common vision for future cross-border collaboration and mutual capacity-building among National Bioethics Committees.

• Engaging in ethical discourse – thematic discussion on the Report on the Principle of Social Responsibility and Health, elaborated by the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) and finalized during its sixteenth ordinary session, with a special focus on the role of National Bioethics Committees in the promotion of this principle in their respective countries.

Contact:
A. Gisselle Burbano F.
UNESCO
Social and Human Sciences Sector
Division of Ethics of Science and Technology
Phone: +33 - 1 - 45 68 44 66
E-mail: ag.burbano-fuertes@unesco.org

Irakli Khodeli
UNESCO
Social and Human Sciences Sector
Division of Ethics of Science and Technology
Phone: +33 - 1 - 45 68 44 33
E-mail: i.khodeli@unesco.org

http://www.unesco.org/bioethics/

Keywords: ethics committees; research ethics; research ethics committees; research law; health system