DRAFT CONGRESS PROGRAMME

Congress Venue:
Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre

28 July 2010 (Wednesday)

Opening Ceremony

Plenary I: - Healthcare and Global Justice

Speakers: 

Justice Michael Kirby (Former Justice of The High Court of Australia)
Do international declarations aid justice in global health?

Dame Silvia Cartwright (Judge, Trial Chamber, United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
What impact do War Crimes Tribunals have on the welfare of victims?

Symposia / Workshops:

• Ethical considerations in the legal construction of life, death and the commercialization of biomedical research
  Organised by the Singapore Academy of Law - Afternoon (Confirmed)
  For more information, please click here.
  

Welcome Dinner at the Science Centre Singapore / Launch of the Bioethics Exhibition

29 July 2010 (Thursday)

Plenary II: - Challenges in Public Health

Speakers: 

Prof Robyn Martin (Professor of Public Health Law, Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Global public health: a comparison of approaches to the role of law and ethics in supporting and constraining public health public health

Prof Ruth Macklin (Professor of Bioethics, Department of Epidemiology and Popular Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, USA)
Challenges in Public Health: Addressing Women’s Health Inequalities

Prof Paul Tambyah (Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore)
Ethical and policy challenges of pandemics

Symposia / Workshops:

• A Regional Framework for the Ethics of Research in Traditional Medicine
  Organised by the Health Sciences Authority of Singapore
  
  
• Infectious and communicable diseases and the global spread: bioethical issues and concerns
  
  
• New developments in genetics and genomics: ethical challenges
  Speakers include Prof Martin Bobrow (Emeritus Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK), Prof. Ruth Chadwick (Professor, Cariff Law School, Cardiff University),Prof Bartha Knoppers (Director, Centre of Genomics and Policy, Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Canada) and Prof Edison Liu (Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore; President, Human Genome Organization).  
  
  
•  Biosecurity and globalisation: ethical issues in infectious disease and dual use research
  
  
• The expansion of newborn screening programs and the role of informed consent
  
  
• Ethical aspects of somatic surveillance
  
  
• The ethics of germ-line modification reconsidered
  
  
• Writing journal papers
  

Lunch: IAB Networks Meetings

30 July 2010 (Friday)

Plenary III: - Human Organs and Tissues: A Global Market?

Chairperson:

Prof Leonardo de Castro (Head of Capacity Development in Biomedical Ethics, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore)

Speakers: 

Dr Farhat Moazam (Professor and Chairperson, Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Pakistan)
Related live donation: opportunities and challenges

Dr Thomas Murray (President, The Hastings Center, USA)
Organ Donors, Organ Vendors, and the Gift of Life

Dame Marilyn Strathern (Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, St. Mary’s College, Durham University, UK)
Donation of bodily material for medical treatment and research

Symposia / Workshops:

• Bioethics education for a globalised world
  
  
• The responsiveness requirement in research ethics
  
  
• WHO’s Revision of Operational Guidelines for Research Ethics Committee
  Organised by WHO
  
  
• Ethical Considerations in the Global Burden of Prematurity and Stillbirth: Cross-cultural Perspectives
  
• Preparing grant applications

Lunch: IAB’s Annual General Meeting

31 July 2010 (Saturday)

Plenary IV: - Bioethics and Culture

Speakers: 

Prof Rihito Kimura (President, Keisen University; Professor Emeritus, Waseda University, Japan)
The challenge to bioethics in cultural context - thirty years experience in Japanese society

Professor Segun Gbadegesin (Professor and Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Howard University, USA)
Africa in Global Bioethics

 Professor Qiu Renzong (Honorary Director, Center for Applied Ethics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, People’s Republic of China)
Title to be confirmed

Symposia / Workshops:

• Aesthetic practice - time for an independent professional framework and identity?
  Organised by Singapore Medical Association. Special speaker: Prof Bernard Lo (Professor of Medicine and Director, Program in Medical Ethics, University of California San Francisco, USA)
  
  
• Reproductive Rights in Ibero-America: Still too much to be done
  (In Spanish)
  Organised by IAB’s Ibero-American Network
  
  
• Bonding brains to machines: Ethical issues of brain-machine interfaces
  
  
• Nursing Ethics
  Organised by Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, NUS
  
  
• Western or Eastern Principles in a Globalised Bioethics?
  Organised by Asian Bioethics Review
  

• Puzzling over respect for parental autonomy

Other Symposia / Workshops Pending Confirmation:

• Arts and Bioethics Programme

Last updated on 25 May 2010