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Webinar Series on “Covid-19 response and impact in the Arab region: reflections and recommendations from bioethical perspectives”
In response to the difficult ethical issues raised in our global efforts combating the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee (IBC) and World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) have jointly issued a Statement on COVID-19: Ethical Considerations from a Global Perspective. This Statement highlighted some vital ethical issues from a global perspective which urgently need to be recognized all over the world, and appeal for urgent actions to be taken by governments. The Statement is available in English () and French () on UNESDOC.
In this context, UNESCO webinar series on “Covid-19 response and impact in the Arab region: Reflections and recommendations from bioethical perspectives” (April 2020) aim to provide with a set of recommendations to minimize the number of difficult choices that health care providers and other stakeholders must make and ensuring that when they are made it is for the right reasons.
The third edition will be organized on Tuesday 21 April 2020 with the following agenda (starting 11am Beirut time, 10am Cairo time. Each intervention is followed by a discussion):
Facilitator: Dr. Bahaa Darwich - Professor of Philosophy, Al Minia University, Egypt; Member of International Bioethics Committee (IBC)
Speakers:
- “Autonomy, Restriction of Freedom, and Solidarity”
Dr. Huda Basaleem, M.B.CH.B, MPH, PhD; Vice Dean, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, Director, Aden Cancer Registry and Research Center, Consultant, Community Medicine and Health Sciences at University of Aden, Yemen.
- "Ethical Interaction with our Environment and Public Health Crisis"
Dr. Ghaiath M. A. Hussein, PhD, MBBS (SUD), MHSc. (CAN), PhD (UK), Assistant Professor of Bioethics
- “Communication in times of Public Health Crisis”
Dr. Hyam Bashour, PhD in Tripocal Diseases Epidemiology; Professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Damascus University
Please contact Dr Seiko Sugita, programme specialist for Social and Human Sciences for more questions (s.sugita@unesco.org)
