2016 World Congress

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The 2016 IAB conference took place in Edinburgh. We are delighted to have hosted the following symposia. 

• Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Are we Making Progress in Bioethics?
• WHO and Wellcome Trust: Bioethics at the World Health Organisation
• Farr Institute of Health Informatics: Governance Interoperability in Health Research Regulation

• Arts+Ethics
• “Art + Bioéthique”: Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Art as a Catalyst for Exchanges and Knowledge Transfer

• Ethics and regulation of global beauty practices and procedures
• Ethics in evidence generation and research during humanitarian responses to public health crises
• Ethical challenges in the quest to cure HIV
• WHO TB Ethics Guidance Document: The Next Iteration
• Implementing ethical guidelines in response to epidemics
• Perspectives from the Global South: Perspectives for the Global South: Problematizing Assumptions Underlying the ‘Global South-Global North’ Geographical Imaginary & as to Who is ‘Building Capacity’ or ‘Achieving Competency’ in Global Health and Global Health Ethics Initiatives
• Ethical considerations of health databases and biobanks: the open policy-making process of the World Medical Association
• Towards the Development of Ethics Guidance for the Conduct and Review of Health Policy and Systems Research

• Adam Smith at the Bedside: The Influence of ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’ in Clinical Bioethics Consultation
• How Climate Change Compounds Social Injustice
• After Ebola: Challenges facing Infectious Diseases Biobanking
• Changing Regimes of Research Ethics Governance: A Comparative Perspective
• Developing a Framework for Genomic and Biobanking Research in Africa
• Ethical Judgments: Re-Writing Medical Law
• UK mitochondrial research and legislation: cutting edge or out on a limb?
• Exchanging experiences of dealing with facts and values: STS and bioethics

• What is enough? Sufficiency, justice and health
• In it together? The role of solidarity in promoting public interests in biomedicine and public health
• New Crossroads for Bioethics, Environment, and the Brain Sciences: Environmental Neuroethics
• The Ethics of Complex Bodily Exchange
• Ethical issues in efforts to expand access to investigational drugs
• Consent for secondary use of clinical data for research
• What does it mean to regulate in the public interest?