Partnerships
Ethics and Health collaborates with many organizations and institutions, from governmental and intergovernmental to academic and professional.
The Global Summit of National Bioethics Advisory Bodies
The Ethics and Health Team at WHO provides the permanent secretariat for the Global Summit. Any government or national commission wishing to attend the next Global Summit, or to be added to the list of organizations maintained by the secretariat, should please contact WHO/IER/ETH at ethics@who.int.
The next Global Summit will take place in Carthage, Tunisia: 26-28 September 2012.
Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres For Bioethics
To aid its work, the Ethics and Health Unit will turn to the Global Network of WHO collaborating centres for bioethics:
United Nations Organizations
- U.N. Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics
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U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Ethics represents WHO as observer in the International Committee on Bioethics (ICB) and Intergovernmental Committee on Bioethics (IGCB) - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- International Labor Organization (ILO)
- Office of the (United Nations) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
International Initiatives
- Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review
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Global Forum for Bioethics in Research
A global collaborative project promoting discussion on major ethical issues in international research involving human subjects. Ethics and Health is member of the Steering Committee.
Regional Organizations
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Council of Europe (Bioethics)
Ethics and Health represents WHO as an observer to the Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI) of the Council of Europe - European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies
- European Commission