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Professor Caesar Atuire Elected President of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB)

Dr. Caesar Atuire’s election as President of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) was announced at the World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar on 3rd June 2024. Atuire becomes the 15th president of the IAB and the first black person to be appointed to this position. 

During his inaugural address, Dr. Atuire said, “The current world in which we are living is different from the world within which bioethics as a discipline was born...perhaps we need to we reinvent in order to address the challenges of this world in the next decades”