Health Ethics & Governance
We provide a focal point for the examination of ethical issues raised by activities throughout the Organization and foster discussion and debate on diverse topics in global health ethics.

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Embedding ethics in health and climate change: WHO satellite meeting at the 14th Global Summit of National Ethics Committees, San Marino, 16 April 2024

This World Health Organization (WHO) satellite meeting on embedding ethics in health and climate change, held at the 14th Global Summit of national ethics...

WHO Technical Advisory Group on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change Policy: report of the third meeting, 16 July 2024

The World Health Organization recognizes climate change as the biggest health threat facing humanity. In furtherance of its mandate of “articulating...

WHO Technical Advisory Group on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change Policy: report of the second meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 May 2024

The World Health Organization recognizes climate change as the biggest health threat facing humanity. In furtherance of its mandate of “articulating...

WHO Technical Advisory Group on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change Policy: meeting report, 7 February 2024

The World Health Organization recognizes climate change as the biggest health threat facing humanity. In furtherance of its mandate of “articulating...

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The Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Bioethics (hereafter referred to as the “Network”) was established to “support the...

This two-pager provides a quick overview of he Global Network and its activities

BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has had an extraordinary...

The list of protocols approved or exempted by this committee (Table 1) is provided to ensure that member states and partners can easily determine what...