DRAFT CONGRESS PROGRAMME

 
Plenary Sessions:

• 28 July 2010 (Wednesday) - Healthcare and Global Justice
• 29 July 2010 (Thursday) - Global Challenges to Public Health
• 30 July 2010 (Friday) - Human Organs and Tissues: A Global Market?
• 31 July 2010 (Saturday) - Bioethics and Culture

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

• Dame Silvia Cartwright (Former Governor-General of New Zealand; and Judge, Trial Chamber, United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials)

• Prof Leonardo de Castro (Head of Capacity Development in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore)
• Prof Rihito Kimura (President, Keisen University, Japan)
• Justice Michael Kirby (Former Justice of The High Court of Australia)
• Prof Ruth Macklin (Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Yeshiva University, USA)
• Dr Thomas Murray (President, The Hastings Center, USA)
• Prof Joan Tronto (Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA)

• Bioethics education for a globalised world
• Puzzling over respect for parental autonomy
• Ethical considerations in the global burden of prematurity and stillbirth: cross-cultural perspectives
• Bonding brains to machines: ethical issues of brain-machine interfaces
• The expansion of newborn screening programmes and the role of informed consent
• How can bioethics best contribute to deliberations over synthetic biology?
• Infectious and communicable diseases and the global spread: bioethical issues and concerns
• The ethics of germ-line modification reconsidered
• The responsiveness requirement in research ethics
• Biosecurity and globalization: ethical issues in infectious disease and dual use of research 
• Ethical aspects of somatic surveillance
• Arts and Bioethics Programme