National Bioethics Committees

Global list of National Bioethics Committees with contact details
This list will shortly be available in a searchable format on the Ethics website at
http://www.who.int/ethics/en/
For further information or if you wish to add/modify information in this document, please
contact Dr Marie Charlotte Bouësseau at [email protected]
Department of Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law (ETH)
World Health Organization Geneva
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Country
Name of Institution
Conseil National de l'Éthique
des Sciences de la Santé
Algeria
Australia
National Health and Medical
Research Council, Australian
Health Ethics Committee,
NHMRC - AHEC
The Bioethics Commission
Austria
Belgium
Comité consultatif de
Bioéthique de Belgique
(Belgian Advisory Committee on
Bioethics)
Science and Technology Ethics
Committee (CEST)
Canada
Canadian Institutes of Health
Research, CIHR
Contacts
Prof. Said Slimane - Taleb (Président )
Ministère de la santé, de la population et de la réforme hospitalière, 125
Boulevard Abderrahmane LAALA, EL-MADANIA, Alger, ALGERIE
Tel: +(213) (2) 127 9831 (secrétariat du Ministre),+ (213) (2) 127 9964
(secrétariat du Conseil)/Fax: +(213) (2) 127 9641
http://www.sante.dz
Dr Kerry Breen (Chairperson)
Ms Cathy Clutton (General Secretary)
Health Ethics Section, G.P.O. Box 9848, Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA
Tel: +(61)(2) 6289 9807/Fax: +(61)(2) 6289 9898
[email protected]
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc
Prof. Johannes Huber (Chairman)
Dr. Robert Gmeiner (Head of the Secretariat ) Bioethikkommission beim
Bundeskanzleramt - Geschäftsstelle 1010 Wien, Hohenstaufengasse 3,
AUSTRIA
Tel: +(43)1 53115-4319 /Fax: +(43)1 53115-4307 [email protected]
http://www.bka.gv.at/bioethik/
Prof. Léon Cassiers (President)
4, Rue de l'Autonomie- 1er étage. 1070 Bruxelles, BELGIUM
Tel: +(32)(0)27525.09.11/Fax: +(32)(0)27525.09.12
[email protected]/bioeth
www.health.fgov.be/bioeth
André Beauchamp (Président)
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
Dr. Françoise Baylis (Co-Chair)
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
Human Research
(Conseil National d'Ethique en
Recherche chez l'Humain)
Côte d'Ivoire
Cuba
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Comité Consultatif National de
Bioéthique de la République de
Côte d'Ivoire
Comité Nacional Cubano de
Bioética (Cuban National
Commission for Bioethics)
Centralni Eticka Komise Pri
Ministerstvu Zdravotnictvi
Ceske Republiky
(Central Ethics Committee of the
Ministry of Health of the Czech
Republic)
Bioeticka Komise Rada Vlady
Ceské Republiky pro Vyzkum a
Vyvoj, BIOETICKA KOMISE RVV
(Bioethical Commission
Associated to the Research and
Development Council of the
Government of the Czech
Republic)
Comité National d'Ethique
Danish Council of Ethics
Denmark
Dr Richard Carpentier (Executive Director)
774 promenade Echo Drive, Ottawa, Canada, K1S 5N8
Tel: +613 730 62 25/Fax: +6137308251
[email protected]
http://ncehr-cnerh.org
Prof. Lazare Poamé
Tel:+(225)(05) 835 830/+(225)(20) 324 825/Fax:+(225)(20) 218 123
[email protected]
Dr Ismael Clark Arxer
Comité Nacional Cubano de Bioética, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba,
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]
Prof. Jan Payne (President)
Ms Dominika Grundova (General Secretary)
Central Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic,
Palackého nám.4, 128 01 Prague 2, CZECH REPUBLIC Tel: +(420)(2) 2497
2471/Fax:+(420) (2) 2491 5977
[email protected]
Dr Vladimír Viklicky (President)
Jana Zoubková (General Secretary)
Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Nabrezi Edvarda Benese 4,
118 01 Prague 1, CZECH REPUBLIC
Tel. +420-224 002 358/Fax: 53 24 68,
[email protected]
http://www.vlada.cz/1250/eng/vrk/rady/rvv/rvv.eng.shtml
Dr Evariste Likinda
[email protected]
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
[email protected]
[email protected],
http://www.etiskraad.dk
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Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Comision Nacional de Bioetica
(Dominican Republic) National
Bioethics Commission
UNESCO
Comité Nacional de Bioética del
Ecuador (Ecuador National
Commission for Bioethics)
UNESCO
Egyptian National Committee
for Bioethics, EGY/NCB
Egypt
Eesti Bioeetika Noukogu, EBN
(Estonian Council on Bioethics)
Estonia
National Bio-Ethics Committee
Ethiopia
National Advisory Board on
Health Care Ethics (ETENE)
Finland
Mr Andres Peralta (President)
Comisión Nacional Dominicana de la UNESCO, SEEC, Avenida Máximo Gomez,
Santo Domingo, DOMINICA REPUBLIC
Mr Arvelio García-Rivas, UNESCO Quito, Foch 265, Apartado 17-07-8998,
Quito, Ecuador
Tel:+(593) (2) 529 085/Fax:+(593) (2) 504 435
Prof. Ibrahim Gamil BADRAN (Chairman)
Egyptian National Commission for UNESCO, 17 sh. El - Kuwait, Dokki, Cairo,
EGYPT
Tel:+(20) (2) 335 6659/Fax:+(20) (2) 335 6947
[email protected]
[email protected]
ma - [email protected]
http://www.egnatcom.org.eg
Prof. Arvo Tikk (President)
Pille Saar (General Secretary)
University of Tartu, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, 2, Ludwig
Puusepp Street, 51014 Tartu, ESTONIA
Tel:+(372)(7) 318 532/Fax:+(372)(7) 318 509
[email protected]
Dr Yemane Teklay (Secretary)
Health Research Department, Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission,
P.O. Box 2490, ETHIOPIA
Fax:+(251)(1) 52 44 00
Paula Kokkonen (Chairman)
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, P.O. Box 33 (Kirkkokatu 14, Helsinki),
00023, Valtioneuvosto; 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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France
Georgia
Comité Consultatif National
d'Ethique pour les sciences de
la vie et de la santé
(CCNE)
(National Consultative Ethics
Committee for Health and Life
Science)
Prof.Didier Sicard (Président)
Comité consultatif national d'éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la
santé, 71, rue Saint-Dominique 75007 Paris, FRANCE
Tel: +(33)(1)44 42 48 52/53/Fax:+(33)(1)44 42 48 48
[email protected]
http://www.ccne-ethique.fr/
National Bioethics Council of
Georgia, NBCG
Dr Tamar Dekanosidze (President)
National Health Management Centre, 51 Javahishvili St., Tbilisi-38002,
GEORGIA
Tel:+(995) 3294 0160/Fax:+(995) 3294 0160
[email protected]
Prof. Spiros Simitis (Chair)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Berlin-Brandeburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaft, Geschäftsstelle de Nationalen
Ethikrates, Jägerstrasse 22/23, D-10117 Berlin, GERMANY
Tel:+(49)(30)2037 0242/Fax:+(49)(30) 2037 0252
[email protected]
http://www.ethikrat.org
Prof.George Koumantos (Chairman)
Evelpidon 47, 113 62 Athens, GREECE
Tel:+(30)210 88 47 700/Fax:+(30)210 88 47 701
[email protected]
http://www.bioethics.gr
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.
[email protected]
Prof. M.N. Venkatachaliah
Indian Council of Medical Research, Ansari Nogai, PO Box No. 4508, New
Delhi 110029, INDIA
Nationaler Ethikrat
(German National Ethics Council)
Germany
Hellenic National Bioethics
Commission
Greece
National Bioethics Committee
India
Central Ethics Committee on
Human Research (CECHR)
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Irish Council for Bioethics
Ireland
Islamic Republic of Iran
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Lebanon
Lithuania
Committee of Bioethics,
National Committee for Ethics
in Science and Technology
(UNESCO)
Comitato Nazionale Italiano di
Bioetica, CNB
(The National Bioethics
Committee)
Bioethics Committee of Japan
National Bioethics Committee of
Jordan
(UNESCO)
Conseil National de la
Recherche Scientifique, Comité
de Bioéthique, CNRS (or Comité
Consultatif National Libanais
d’Ethique pour les Sciences de la
Vie et de la Santé)
Lietuvos bioetikos komitetas,
LBEK
(Lithuanian Bioethics Committee)
Mr Dermot Gleesonm (Chair)
Irish Council for Bioethics Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2,
IRELAND
Tel:+(353)16611901/Fax:+(353)16762346
info bioethics.ie
http://www.bioethics.ie
Dr Khojasteh Arefnia (General Secretary)
c/o Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, No 17, 1st St., Shahid Hesari
St., Mirdamad Blvd., 1548946111, Tehran P.O. Box 11365-4498, IRAN
Tel:+(98) (21) 222 2852/225 1364/Fax:+(98)(21) 225 2536
[email protected]
Prof. Francesco D'Agostino (Chairman)
Via della Mercede, 9600187 Roma, ITALY
Tel:+(39)(6)67794601/Fax:+(39)(6)67794686
[email protected]
http://www.governo.it/bioetica/
Prof. Hiroo Imura (President)
Kyoto University, Faculty of Medicine, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-01,
JAPAN
Prof. Mohammad Hamdan (Chairman)
Mr Marwan Hamadé (President)
B.P. 11-8281, Beirut, LEBANON
Tel:+(961) (1) 822 665.
[email protected]
http://www.cnrs.edu.lb/directory.html
Prof. Eugenijus Gefenas (Chair)
Vilniaus g. 33-230, 2001 Vilnius, LITHUANIA
Tel/Fax:+(8 5) 212 45 65
[email protected]
www.sam.lt/bioetika
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Luxembourg
Madagascar
Commission Consultative
Nationale d'Ethique pour les
Sciences de la Vie et de la
Santé du Grand-Duché de
Luxembourg, CNE
Comité d'éthique biomédicale
du Ministère de la santé
National Committee
Mali
Malta
Bioethics Consultative
Committee
National Ethics Committee of
Mauritius
Mauritius
Comisión Nacional de Bioética
(National Commission of
Bioethics)
Mexico
Prof. Edmond, Wagner(Président)
Ministère de la culture, de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, 20,
Montée de la Pétrusse, L-2912 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tel: +(352) 478 6628/Fax:+(352) 295 551
[email protected]
Dr. Jean Rubis Andriantsoa
VK.61 E Ambohitsoa Antananarivo 101, MADAGASCAR
Tel:GSM.+(261)3311 71080/261 20 22 25576/Fax 261 2022 49185
[email protected]
Prof. Kaourou Doucoure,
Faculté de médecine, de Pharmacie et d'Odonto-Stomatologie de Bamako, BP
1805 Bamako, MALI
Tel:+(223)228.40.46/Port:+(223)678 63 22/Fax:+(223)222.49.87
[email protected]
Dr Michael Axiaq (Chairman)
Department of Health, 15 Merchants Street, Valletta, MALTA
Tel:+(356) (626) 246 136/Fax:+(356)(626) 225 028
[email protected]
http://www.synapse.net.mt/bioethics
Mr. M. Seebahr
Ministry of Health and Quality of Life, 5th floor, Emmanuel Anquetil Bld.,
Port Louis, MAURITIUS
Tel:+(230) 201 21 75/Fax:+(230) 208 7222
[email protected] [email protected]
http://ncb.intnet.mu/moh/
Dr Juanl Garza Ramos (President)
Dr Horacio Garcia-Romero (General Secretary)
Comisión Nacional de Bioética, Claustro de Claustro de San Pablo, Centro
Cultural Juárez, Plaza de San Pablo No. 13, Centro Histórico 06090 México,
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
(Health Council of the
Netherlands)
Netherlands
Health Research Council of New
Zealand Ethics Committee,
HRCEC
New Zealand
Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics
Council
National Ethics Advisory
Committee, NEAC
National Ethics Committee on
Assisted Human Reproduction,
NECAHR
Norvegian
Biotechnology Advisory Board
Norway
Prof. J. A. Knottnerus (President)
Dr WJ Dondorp (Scientific secretary)
PO Box 16052, 2500 BB The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS
Office address: Parnassusplein 5, The Hague, THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: + 31(0)703407520/Fax:+ 31(0)703407523
[email protected]
http://www.gr.nl
http://www.healthcouncil.nl
Mrs Marge Scott (Chair)
Jean Gibbons (Secretary)
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
Jill White (Acting Council Chair)
John Pennington (Executive Officer)
PO Box 10362, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Tel:+(04) 9167673/Fax:+(04) 9177523
[email protected]
http://www.bioethics.org.nz/
Dr Andrew Moore (Chairperson)
PO Box 5013, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Tel: +64 4 470 0614 /Fax: +64 4 496 2210
[email protected]
Prof. Sylvia Rumball (Chairperson)
http://www.newhealth.govt.nz/necahr/background.htm
Werner Christie (Chairman)
Sissel Rogne (Director of the Secretariat)
[email protected], +47 24 15 60 21
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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Portugal
Russian Federation
Conselho Nacional de Etica para
as Ciencias da Vida
(National Ethics Council for life
sciences)
Russian National Committee on
Bioethics
Bioethics Advisory Committee,
BAC
Singapore
Central Ethic Committee of the
Ministry of health
Slovakia
Slovenia
National Medical Ethics
Committee, NMEC
Dr Paula Cristina Martinho da Silva (Chairperson), Rua Prof. Gomes
Teixeira, Edif. PCM, 8, 1399-022 Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Tel: (351) (21) 392 7688. Fax:+(351) (21) 390 0032
[email protected]
http://www.cnecv.gov.pt/www.cnecv.gov.pt
Prof. Rem Petrov (Chairman )
Prof. Boris Rudin (Vice-Chairman) Volkhonka 14/1, 119992 Moscow,
RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Tel: (7) (095) 203 9067. Fax: (7) (095) 203 9169.
email: [email protected]
Associate Professor Terry Kaan Sheung-Hung (Chairman of the The Human
Genetics Subcommittee (HGS)
Mr Richard Magnus (Chairman of The Human Stem Cell Research
Subcommittee (HSR))
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/
Assoc. Prof. Jozef Glasa (Chairperson)
Ministerstvo zdravotníctva SR, Limbová 2, P. O. BOX 52, 837 52 Bratislava 37,
SLOVAKIA
Tel.: +(421) 2 593 73 111/Fax.: +(421)2 547 77 983
[email protected]
www.health.gov.sk
Prof. Jože Trontelj
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Statens medicinsk-etiska råd,
SMER
(Swedish National Council on
Medical Ethics)
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Tunisia
Ukraine
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
Commission nationale d'éthique
pour la médecine humaine,
NEK-CNE (Swiss National
Advisory Commission on
Biomedical Ethics)
Comité national de bioéthique
syrien
Comité National d'Ethique
Médicale de Tunisie
(Committee of Medical Ethics of
Tunisia)
Commission on Bioethics under
the Cabinet of Ministers of
Ukraine
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Daniel Tarschys (Chairman)
Statsvetenskapliga institutionen Stockholms universitet, S-106 91 Stockholm,
SWEDEN
Tel:+(46)8 16 15 78/Fax:+(46)8 15 25 29
[email protected]
Hans-Gunnar Axberger (Head of Secretariate)
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
Professor Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (President)
Georg Christoph Amstutz (Scientific/Executive Secretary)
Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, 3003 Bern, SWITZERLAND
Tel:+(41)31 324 02 36/Fax:+(41)31 322 62 33
[email protected]
http://www.nek-cne.ch/
Dr Mohamed Al Nib Abed Al Oihed (President)
Ministère de l'enseignement supérieur, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
Tel:+(963)(11)212 9862/9861/ Fax:+(963)(11)213 0753
Prof. Bechir Hamza (Président)
Prof. Abdelaziz Ghachem (General Secretary)
B.P. 74 - Institut Pasteur de Tunis, 1002 Tunis Belvédère, TUNISIA
Tel:+(216) (71) 78 3828/ Fax:+(216) (71) 78 3828 [email protected]
54 Volodymyrska st, Kyiv-30, 01030, UKRAINE
Prof. Bob Hepple (Chairman)
Dr.Sandy Thomas (Director of the Secretariat)
28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS, UNITED KINGDOM
Tel:+(44)(207)681 9619/Fax:+(44)(207)637 1712
[email protected]
http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org
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Human Genetics Commission,
HGC
President's Council on Bioethics
United States of America
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC(Chair)
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
Prof. Leon R. Kass (Chairman)
1801 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20006, UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
Tel: +(202)296 4669
[email protected]
http://www.bioethics.gov/
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