WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics (CCs) are key institutions with relevant expertise distributed throughout the world. They represent a valuable resource as an extended and integral arm of WHO's capacity to implement its ethics mandate.
The scientific validity of WHO's work on ethics is enhanced by ongoing collaboration and dialogue with academic centres. In this respect, WHO encourages connections and synergies between its CCs to achieve enhanced results, to facilitate resource mobilization and to strengthen (institutional) capacity, in particular at regional level.
WHO is committed to the development of CCs for Bioethics in low and middle income countries and encourages active partnership between CCs in high- and low resource settings. The Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics has been created to advance these aims.
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Bioethics expert, Head of ICMR Bioethics Unit and the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Strengthening Ethics in Biomedical and Health Research
Dr. Roli Mathur is a passionate bioethicist/scientist heading the ICMR Bioethics Unit and serving as the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Strengthening Ethics in Biomedical and Health Research. She is a Scientific Advisor to the National Ethics Committee Registry at Department of Health Research, MoHFW, Govt of India and also the Member Secretary of the ICMR-Central Ethics Committee on Human Research which serves as the National Ethics Committee at ICMR.
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Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, directs the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, a WHO Collaborating Centre in Ethics and Global Health Policy. Trained as a philosopher, he is Professor of Medicine and jointly of Philosophy and Public Health Sciences and teaches and writes about clinical, research and public health ethics.
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