Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics: Progress report 2016/2017
Overview
The Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics (hereafter referred to as the “Network”) was established to “support the WHO-HQ Global Health Ethics Unit (Geneva) to implement its mandated work in the field of ethics and health, including: - “articulating ethical and evidence-based policy options' (WHO core function); - advancing ethics- and rights-based approaches to health promoted within WHO and at national and global levels; and - increasing capacity to assess and act upon ethical issues in public health at country, regional and global levels and within the Organization.
The Network augments the contributions of individual WHO collaborating centres for bioethics by fostering “connections and synergies … to achieve enhanced results, to facilitate resource mobilization, and to strengthen (institutional) capacity, in particular at regional level” with respect to public health ethics, research ethics, and clinical ethics. As of September 2017, the Network comprised 10 WHO collaborating centres in five regions
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