Global List of National Bioethics Committees with Contact Details

Global list of National Bioethics Committees with contact details

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World Health Organization Geneva National bioethics Committees Draft August 2004

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Country Name of Institution Contacts Conseil National de l'Éthique Prof. Said Slimane - Taleb (Président ) des Sciences de la Santé Ministère de la santé, de la population et de la réforme hospitalière, 125 Boulevard Abderrahmane LAALA, EL-MADANIA, Alger, ALGERIE Algeria Tel: +(213) (2) 127 9831 (secrétariat du Ministre),+ (213) (2) 127 9964 (secrétariat du Conseil)/Fax: +(213) (2) 127 9641 http://www.sante.dz National Health and Medical Dr Kerry Breen (Chairperson) Research Council, Australian Ms Cathy Clutton (General Secretary) Health Ethics Committee, Health Ethics Section, G.P.O. Box 9848, Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA Australia NHMRC - AHEC Tel: +(61)(2) 6289 9807/Fax: +(61)(2) 6289 9898 [email protected] http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc The Bioethics Commission Prof. Johannes Huber (Chairman) Dr. Robert Gmeiner (Head of the Secretariat ) Bioethikkommission beim Bundeskanzleramt - Geschäftsstelle 1010 Wien, Hohenstaufengasse 3, Austria AUSTRIA Tel: +(43)1 53115-4319 /Fax: +(43)1 53115-4307 [email protected] http://www.bka.gv.at/bioethik/ Comité consultatif de Prof. Léon Cassiers (President) Bioéthique de Belgique 4, Rue de l'Autonomie- 1er étage. 1070 Bruxelles, BELGIUM Belgium (Belgian Advisory Committee on Tel: +(32)(0)27525.09.11/Fax: +(32)(0)27525.09.12 Bioethics) [email protected]/bioeth www.health.fgov.be/bioeth Science and Technology Ethics André Beauchamp (Président) Committee (CEST) Commission de l'éthique de la science et de la technologie, 1200 route de l'Église, 3rd floor, Suite 3.45, Sainte-Foy QUEBEC G1V 4Z2, CANADA Tel: +(418) 528-0965/Fax: +(418) 646-0920 [email protected] http://www.ethique.gouv.qc.ca/eng/home.html Canada Canadian Institutes of Health Dr. Françoise Baylis (Co-Chair) Research, CIHR Dr. Michael McDonald (Co-Chair) Standing Committee on Ethics, 410 Laurier Avenue W., 9th Floor, Address Locator 4209A, Ottawa ON K1A 0W9, CANADA Tel: +(613) 946-5622 [email protected] http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca

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National Council on Ethics in Dr Richard Carpentier (Executive Director) Human Research 774 promenade Echo Drive, Ottawa, Canada, K1S 5N8 (Conseil National d'Ethique en Tel: +613 730 62 25/Fax: +6137308251 Recherche chez l'Humain) [email protected] http://ncehr-cnerh.org Comité Consultatif National de Prof. Lazare Poamé Bioéthique de la République de Tel:+(225)(05) 835 830/+(225)(20) 324 825/Fax:+(225)(20) 218 123 Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire [email protected]

Comité Nacional Cubano de Dr Ismael Clark Arxer Bioética (Cuban National Comité Nacional Cubano de Bioética, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Cuba Commission for Bioethics) Capitolio Nacional, Prado y San José, Habana Vieja, La Habana 12400, CUBA Tel:+(1) (537) 862 6545/+(1)(537) 867 0599/Fax:+(1)(537) 338 654 [email protected] OR: [email protected] Centralni Eticka Komise Pri Prof. Jan Payne (President) Ministerstvu Zdravotnictvi Ms Dominika Grundova (General Secretary) Ceske Republiky Central Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, (Central Ethics Committee of the Palackého nám.4, 128 01 Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC Tel: +(420)(2) 2497 Ministry of Health of the Czech 2471/Fax:+(420) (2) 2491 5977 Republic) [email protected] Bioeticka Komise Rada Vlady Dr Vladimír Viklicky (President) Czech Republic Ceské Republiky pro Vyzkum a Jana Zoubková (General Secretary) Vyvoj, BIOETICKA KOMISE RVV Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Nabrezi Edvarda Benese 4, (Bioethical Commission 118 01 Prague 1, CZECH REPUBLIC Associated to the Research and Tel. +420-224 002 358/Fax: 53 24 68, Development Council of the [email protected] Government of the Czech http://www.vlada.cz/1250/eng/vrk/rady/rvv/rvv.eng.shtml Republic) Comité National d'Ethique Dr Evariste Likinda Democratic Republic of Congo [email protected] Danish Council of Ethics Berit Andersen Faber ( Head of Secretariat) The Danish Council of Ethics Ravnsborggade 2-4; 2200 Copenhagen DENMARK Phone:+(45) 3537 5833/Fax:+(45) 3537 5755 Denmark [email protected] [email protected], http://www.etiskraad.dk

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Comision Nacional de Bioetica Mr Andres Peralta (President) (Dominican Republic) National Comisión Nacional Dominicana de la UNESCO, SEEC, Avenida Máximo Gomez, Dominican Republic Bioethics Commission Santo Domingo, DOMINICA REPUBLIC UNESCO Comité Nacional de Bioética del Mr Arvelio García-Rivas, UNESCO Quito, Foch 265, Apartado 17-07-8998, Ecuador (Ecuador National Quito, Ecuador Ecuador Commission for Bioethics) Tel:+(593) (2) 529 085/Fax:+(593) (2) 504 435 UNESCO Egyptian National Committee Prof. Ibrahim Gamil BADRAN (Chairman) for Bioethics, EGY/NCB Egyptian National Commission for UNESCO, 17 sh. El - Kuwait, Dokki, Cairo, EGYPT Tel:+(20) (2) 335 6659/Fax:+(20) (2) 335 6947 Egypt [email protected] [email protected] ma - [email protected] http://www.egnatcom.org.eg Eesti Bioeetika Noukogu, EBN Prof. Arvo Tikk (President) (Estonian Council on Bioethics) Pille Saar (General Secretary) University of Tartu, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, 2, Ludwig Estonia Puusepp Street, 51014 Tartu, ESTONIA Tel:+(372)(7) 318 532/Fax:+(372)(7) 318 509 [email protected] National Bio-Ethics Committee Dr Yemane Teklay (Secretary) Health Research Department, Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission, Ethiopia P.O. Box 2490, ETHIOPIA Fax:+(251)(1) 52 44 00 National Advisory Board on Paula Kokkonen (Chairman) Health Care Ethics (ETENE) Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, P.O. Box 33 (Kirkkokatu 14, Helsinki), 00023, Valtioneuvosto; FINLAND Finland Tel:+(358)(9)16001 (switch board)/Fax:+(358)(9)16074312 etene(at)stm.fi ; http://www.etene.org/e/index.shtml

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Comité Consultatif National Prof.Didier Sicard (Président) d'Ethique pour les sciences de Comité consultatif national d'éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la la vie et de la santé santé, 71, rue Saint-Dominique 75007 Paris, FRANCE (CCNE) Tel: +(33)(1)44 42 48 52/53/Fax:+(33)(1)44 42 48 48 France (National Consultative Ethics [email protected] Committee for Health and Life http://www.ccne-ethique.fr/ Science)

National Bioethics Council of Dr Tamar Dekanosidze (President) Georgia, NBCG National Health Management Centre, 51 Javahishvili St., Tbilisi-38002, Georgia GEORGIA Tel:+(995) 3294 0160/Fax:+(995) 3294 0160 [email protected] Nationaler Ethikrat Prof. Spiros Simitis (Chair) (German National Ethics Council) Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Berlin-Brandeburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft, Geschäftsstelle de Nationalen Germany Ethikrates, Jägerstrasse 22/23, D-10117 Berlin, GERMANY Tel:+(49)(30)2037 0242/Fax:+(49)(30) 2037 0252 [email protected] http://www.ethikrat.org Hellenic National Bioethics Prof.George Koumantos (Chairman) Commission Evelpidon 47, 113 62 Athens, GREECE Greece Tel:+(30)210 88 47 700/Fax:+(30)210 88 47 701 [email protected] http://www.bioethics.gr National Bioethics Committee Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India, Block-2, 8th Floor, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003, INDIA Tel:+(91)(11) 436 0718/Fax:+(91)(11) 436 0718. India [email protected] Central Ethics Committee on Prof. M.N. Venkatachaliah Human Research (CECHR) Indian Council of Medical Research, Ansari Nogai, PO Box No. 4508, New Delhi 110029, INDIA

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Irish Council for Bioethics Mr Dermot Gleesonm (Chair) Irish Council for Bioethics Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, IRELAND Ireland Tel:+(353)16611901/Fax:+(353)16762346 info bioethics.ie http://www.bioethics.ie Committee of Bioethics, Dr Khojasteh Arefnia (General Secretary) National Committee for Ethics c/o Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, No 17, 1st St., Shahid Hesari Islamic Republic of Iran in Science and Technology St., Mirdamad Blvd., 1548946111, Tehran P.O. Box 11365-4498, IRAN (UNESCO) Tel:+(98) (21) 222 2852/225 1364/Fax:+(98)(21) 225 2536 [email protected] Comitato Nazionale Italiano di Prof. Francesco D'Agostino (Chairman) Bioetica, CNB Via della Mercede, 9600187 Roma, ITALY Italy (The National Bioethics Tel:+(39)(6)67794601/Fax:+(39)(6)67794686 Committee) [email protected] http://www.governo.it/bioetica/ Bioethics Committee of Japan Prof. Hiroo Imura (President) Japan Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-01, JAPAN National Bioethics Committee of Prof. Mohammad Hamdan (Chairman) Jordan Jordan (UNESCO) Conseil National de la Mr Marwan Hamadé (President) Recherche Scientifique, Comité B.P. 11-8281, Beirut, LEBANON de Bioéthique, CNRS (or Comité Tel:+(961) (1) 822 665. Lebanon Consultatif National Libanais [email protected] d’Ethique pour les Sciences de la http://www.cnrs.edu.lb/directory.html Vie et de la Santé) Lietuvos bioetikos komitetas, Prof. Eugenijus Gefenas (Chair) LBEK Vilniaus g. 33-230, 2001 Vilnius, LITHUANIA Lithuania (Lithuanian Bioethics Committee) Tel/Fax:+(8 5) 212 45 65 [email protected] www.sam.lt/bioetika

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Commission Consultative Prof. Edmond, Wagner(Président) Nationale d'Ethique pour les Ministère de la culture, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, 20, Luxembourg Sciences de la Vie et de la Montée de la Pétrusse, L-2912 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Santé du Grand-Duché de Tel: +(352) 478 6628/Fax:+(352) 295 551 Luxembourg, CNE [email protected] Comité d'éthique biomédicale Dr. Jean Rubis Andriantsoa du Ministère de la santé VK.61 E Ambohitsoa Antananarivo 101, MADAGASCAR Madagascar Tel:GSM.+(261)3311 71080/261 20 22 25576/Fax 261 2022 49185 [email protected] National Committee Prof. Kaourou Doucoure, Faculté de médecine, de Pharmacie et d'Odonto-Stomatologie de Bamako, BP Mali 1805 Bamako, MALI Tel:+(223)228.40.46/Port:+(223)678 63 22/Fax:+(223)222.49.87 [email protected] Bioethics Consultative Dr Michael Axiaq (Chairman) Committee Department of Health, 15 Merchants Street, Valletta, MALTA Malta Tel:+(356) (626) 246 136/Fax:+(356)(626) 225 028 [email protected] http://www.synapse.net.mt/bioethics National Ethics Committee of Mr. M. Seebahr Mauritius Ministry of Health and Quality of Life, 5th floor, Emmanuel Anquetil Bld., Port Louis, MAURITIUS Mauritius Tel:+(230) 201 21 75/Fax:+(230) 208 7222 [email protected] [email protected] http://ncb.intnet.mu/moh/ Comisión Nacional de Bioética Dr Juanl Garza Ramos (President) (National Commission of Dr Horacio Garcia-Romero (General Secretary) Bioethics) Comisión Nacional de Bioética, Claustro de Claustro de San Pablo, Centro Cultural Juárez, Plaza de San Pablo No. 13, Centro Histórico 06090 México, Mexico D.F., MEXICO Tel:+(55)(5)422195/42 0077/Fax:+(55)(5) 22 7845 [email protected] http://www.bioetica.salud.gob.mx/diplomado_invest.html

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Gezondheidsraad Prof. J. A. Knottnerus (President) (Health Council of the Dr WJ Dondorp (Scientific secretary) Netherlands) PO Box 16052, 2500 BB The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS Office address: Parnassusplein 5, The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS Netherlands Tel: + 31(0)703407520/Fax:+ 31(0)703407523 [email protected] http://www.gr.nl http://www.healthcouncil.nl Health Research Council of New Mrs Marge Scott (Chair) Zealand Ethics Committee, Jean Gibbons (Secretary) HRCEC P.O. Box 5541, Wellesley Street, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Tel:+(64)(9) 379 8227/Fax:+(64)(9) 377 9988 [email protected] http://www.hrc.govt.nz Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Jill White (Acting Council Chair) Council John Pennington (Executive Officer) New Zealand PO Box 10362, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Tel:+(04) 9167673/Fax:+(04) 9177523 [email protected] http://www.bioethics.org.nz/ National Ethics Advisory Dr Andrew Moore (Chairperson) Committee, NEAC PO Box 5013, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND Tel: +64 4 470 0614 /Fax: +64 4 496 2210 [email protected] National Ethics Committee on Prof. Sylvia Rumball (Chairperson) Assisted Human Reproduction, http://www.newhealth.govt.nz/necahr/background.htm NECAHR Norvegian Werner Christie (Chairman) Biotechnology Advisory Board Sissel Rogne (Director of the Secretariat) [email protected], +47 24 15 60 21 Norway Bioteknologinemnda, Prinsens gt. 18, Boks 522 Sentrum, 0105 OSLO, NORWAY Tel:+(24)15 60 20/Fax:+(24)15 60 29 [email protected] http://www.bion.no

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Conselho Nacional de Etica para Dr Paula Cristina Martinho da Silva (Chairperson), Rua Prof. Gomes as Ciencias da Vida Teixeira, Edif. PCM, 8, 1399-022 Lisbon, PORTUGAL Portugal (National Ethics Council for life Tel: (351) (21) 392 7688. Fax:+(351) (21) 390 0032 sciences) [email protected] http://www.cnecv.gov.pt/www.cnecv.gov.pt Russian National Committee on Prof. Rem Petrov (Chairman ) Bioethics Prof. Boris Rudin (Vice-Chairman) Volkhonka 14/1, 119992 Moscow, Russian Federation RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Tel: (7) (095) 203 9067. Fax: (7) (095) 203 9169. email: [email protected] Bioethics Advisory Committee, Associate Professor Terry Kaan Sheung-Hung (Chairman of the The Human BAC Genetics Subcommittee (HGS) Mr Richard Magnus (Chairman of The Human Stem Cell Research Subcommittee (HSR)) Singapore The Secretariat, BAC Advisory Committee, 10 Science Park Road, #01/01-03 The Alpha, Singapore Science Park2, 117684, SINGAPORE Tel:+(65)(68) 266 572 /+(65)(68) 266 555/Fax:+(65) (67) 771 711 [email protected] http://www.bioethics-singapore.org/ Central Ethic Committee of the Assoc. Prof. Jozef Glasa (Chairperson) Ministry of health Ministerstvo zdravotníctva SR, Limbová 2, P. O. BOX 52, 837 52 Bratislava 37, SLOVAKIA Slovakia Tel.: +(421) 2 593 73 111/Fax.: +(421)2 547 77 983 [email protected] www.health.gov.sk National Medical Ethics Prof. Jože Trontelj Slovenia Committee, NMEC

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Statens medicinsk-etiska råd, Daniel Tarschys (Chairman) SMER Statsvetenskapliga institutionen Stockholms universitet, S-106 91 Stockholm, (Swedish National Council on SWEDEN Medical Ethics) Tel:+(46)8 16 15 78/Fax:+(46)8 15 25 29 [email protected] Hans-Gunnar Axberger (Head of Secretariate) Sweden Lotta Eriksson (Council Secretary) Ministry of Health and Social Affairs S-103 33 Stockholm, SWEDEN Tel:+ (46) 8 405 27 58, Fax:+(46) 8 405 41 11 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.smer.gov.se Commission nationale d'éthique Professor Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (President) pour la médecine humaine, Georg Christoph Amstutz (Scientific/Executive Secretary) NEK-CNE (Swiss National Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, 3003 Bern, SWITZERLAND Switzerland Advisory Commission on Tel:+(41)31 324 02 36/Fax:+(41)31 322 62 33 Biomedical Ethics) [email protected] http://www.nek-cne.ch/ Comité national de bioéthique Dr Mohamed Al Nib Abed Al Oihed (President) Syrian Arab Republic syrien Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC Tel:+(963)(11)212 9862/9861/ Fax:+(963)(11)213 0753 Comité National d'Ethique Prof. Bechir Hamza (Président) Médicale de Tunisie Prof. Abdelaziz Ghachem (General Secretary) Tunisia (Committee of Medical Ethics of B.P. 74 - Institut Pasteur de Tunis, 1002 Tunis Belvédère, TUNISIA Tunisia) Tel:+(216) (71) 78 3828/ Fax:+(216) (71) 78 3828 [email protected] Commission on Bioethics under 54 Volodymyrska st, Kyiv-30, 01030, UKRAINE Ukraine the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Nuffield Council on Bioethics Prof. Bob Hepple (Chairman) Dr.Sandy Thomas (Director of the Secretariat) United Kingdom of Great Britain and 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS, UNITED KINGDOM Northern Ireland Tel:+(44)(207)681 9619/Fax:+(44)(207)637 1712 [email protected] http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org

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Human Genetics Commission, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC(Chair) HGC Department of Health , Area 652C, Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH, UNITED KINGDOM

Tel:+(44)(207)972 1518/Fax:+(44)(207)972 1717 [email protected] www.hgc.gov.uk President's Council on Bioethics Prof. Leon R. Kass (Chairman) 1801 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA United States of America Tel: +(202)296 4669 [email protected] http://www.bioethics.gov/

12 National bioethics Committees Draft August 2004 SOURCES (not sorted)

- UNESCO database of bioethics institutions, http://databases.unesco.org/bioethics/biowebintro.shtml - The European Conference of National Ethics Committees (COMETH) list of National Ethics Committees, http://www.coe.int/T/F/Affaires%5Fjuridiques/Coop%E9ration%5Fjuridique/Bio%E9thique/COMETH/ - European Union, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission, EGE Secretariat, http://europa.eu.int/comm/european_group_ethics/liens_en.htm and: Ethics in the New Member States, June 2004, http://europa.eu.int/comm/european_group_ethics/docs/synthesnewnec.pdf - German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE) (bioethics links) http://www.drze.de/links/Ethikkommissionen?la=en - HIV/AIDS Vaccine Ethics Group (HAVEG) list created with sponsorship from the WHO/UNAIDS African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP), http://www.saavi.org.za/inventory.htm - The Canadian National Council on Ethics in Human Research site (links to National ethics committees), http://ncehr-cnerh.org/ - The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Bioethics Ressources, http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/issues/resources.asp and The ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries, National guidance on research related to healthcare, http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publications/developingcountries/rep0000000945.asp - WHO list of Representation at Global Summits of National Bioethics Commissions in London (2000) and Brasilia (2002), http://www.who.int/ethics/globalsummit/summit_londonbrasilia.pdf - The president's Council on Bioethics site (list of international sites), http://www.bioethics.gov/about/related_sites.html - 5th Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, List of Participant, www.inserm.fr/bioethics/globalforum5 - "Comités d'éthique en Afrique de l'Ouest et Afrique Centrale: des prémices concrets pour un partenariat de la recherche clinique", in Les Cahiers du C.C.N.E., n°37, 2003. - Inquiries, personal contacts and questionnaires - Search in Google and in countries official websites