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” 

Further, he called for greater focus on the values on pluriversality, solidarity, and subsidiarity in future bioethics approaches. 

Dr. Atuire is a philosopher, health ethicist, and an Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana. He is the principal investigator of the Wellcome Trust Discovery Award “Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health Research”. Additionally, he is the Ethics Lead for International Health and Tropical Medicine in Oxford University and an affiliate Instructor at the University of Washington’s Department of Bioethics and Humanities.  

The IAB seeks to bring bioethicists from all over the world together to exchange ideas and resources. 

 Click to watch his address at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar on 3rd  June 2024.