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WHO has established an international Working Group on Ethics and COVID-19 in order to develop advice on key ethical questions that Member States need to address. The expert group also advises WHO’s technical units regarding ethical aspects of their COVID-related work. This group was renamed into "WHO Expert Group on ethics & governance of infectious disease outbreaks and other emergencies" on 26 April 2023.
Co-chairs
Dr Beatriz Thomé is a physician with a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Washington, with a focus on Global Health. She holds a PhD in Infectious Diseases having conducted research on HIV and children.
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Dr. Ross Upshur is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Associate Director of the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health.
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Members
Aasim Ahmad
Angus Dawson
Ignacio Mastroleo
Jean-François Delfraissy
Michael Parker
Oumou Bah Sow
Bioethics expert, Head of ICMR Bioethics Unit and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Strengthening Ethics in Biomedical and Health Research
Ruipeng Lei
Voo Teck Chuan
So Yoon Kim
Tina Garanis-Papadatos
Thalia Arawi
Zubairu Iliyasu