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WMA Satellite Meeting during the 11th World Congress of Bioethics: Thinking ahead – The future of the Declaration of Helsinki

9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., 26 June 2012
Rotterdam Room, The Manhattan Hotel, Rotterdam

Agenda (final)

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9:00 am Welcome address
Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the World Medical Association
Session 1 Chairs:
Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Chair of the WMA DoH Workgroup, German Medical Association
Torunn Janbu, Chair of the Ethics Committee of the WMA, Norwegian Medical Association
9:15 am Introduction
Urban Wiesing, WMA DoH Workgroup Scientific Board, University of Tuebingen, Germany
9:40 am The Future of the Declaration of Helsinki
Ruth Macklin, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
10:05 am Helsinki in the Age of Human Rights
Aurora Plomer, Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics University of Sheffield, UK
10:30 am Break
Session 2 Chairs:
Masami Ishii, Vice-Chairman of the WMA Council, Japan Medical Association
Miguel R. Jorge, WMA DoH Workgroup, Brazilian Medical Association
11:00 am On the relevance of embedding clinical equipoise in the Declaration of Helsinki
Rieke van der Graaf, Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht Netherlands
11:25 am Should the Declaration of Helsinki become more “risk‐based”?
Annette Rid, Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University Hospital Zurich Switzerland
11:50 am ECRIN proposals for amendments to the Declaration of Helsinki: ethics committees, transparency,
and choice of comparator
Jacques Demotes-Mainard, European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network (ECRIN)
12:15 pm The new Declaration of Helsinki and the use of placebos in clinical trials: the controversy still remains
Maria-Sharmila Sousa, Federal University of São Paulo, Paulista Medical School, Brazil
12:40 pm Lunch
Session 3 Chairs:
Peter Carmel, WMA DoH Workgroup, American Medical Association
Poul Jaszczak, WMA DoH Workgroup, Danish Medical Association
2:00 pm Ancillary care, the Declaration of Helsinki and the obligations of global justice
John McMillan, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Australia
2:25 pm The impact of paragraph 25 on informed consent for biobank samples
Flora Colledge, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
2:50 pm Refining the Declaration of Helsinki’s additional protections for research in children
Anna Westra, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
3:15 pm Break
Session 4 Chairs:
Jeff Blackmer, WMA DoH Workgroup Scientific Board, Canadian Medical Association
Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General of the World Medical Association
3:45 pm Considering research on neuro-enhancement in the next revision of the Declaration of Helsinki
Saskia Nagel, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck Germany
4:10 pm Closing
4:30 pm End

The date and venue of the 2nd WVA-WMA Global Conference on One Health was:

  • Thursday, 10th – Friday, 11th of November 2016
  • Rihga Royal Hotel Kokura, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Moving forward from One Health Concept to One Health Approach

Following the successful Global Conference on One Health (GCOH) that was held in Madrid in May 2015, the WVA and WMA in close collaboration with the Japan Medical Association (JMA) and the Japan Veterinary Medical Association (JVMA) are preparing the 2nd GCOH to be held on November 10th-11th in Kitakyusyu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

The 2nd GCOH aims to bring together Veterinarians, Physicians, Students, Public Health Officers, Animal Health Officers, NGOs and other interested parties from the different world regions to learn, discuss and to address critical aspects of the ‘One Health’ Concept.

The main objectives of the conference are to strengthen the links and communications and to achieve closer collaboration between Physicians, Veterinarians and all appropriate stakeholders to improve the different aspects of health and wellbeing of humans, animals and the environment. The main conference sessions will focus on the issues of:

  • Zoonotic and Foodborne diseases
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Environmental hazards exposure to humans and animals
  • The Future of the One Health Concept

Please find the Summary report here

The date and venue of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics 12th World Conference BIOETHICS, MEDICAL ETHICS & HEALTH LAW is:

The Conference is designed to offer a platform for the exchange of information and knowledge and to hold discussions, lectures, workshops and exhibition of programs and databases.

For more information please check the following website: http://www.isas.co.il/bioethics2017-Limassol/index.php

If you wish to take part in the scientific program, submit your oral presentation or poster abstract together with a short CV to: confer@isas.co.il

Deadline for abstract submission: October 31, 2016

Please note:  Pre-meetings of workgroups, Finance Group and Executive Committee, Junior Doctors Network (JDN) meeting will be held on Tuesday, 18 April and/or Wednesday, 19 April 2017.

“More details and registration are available in the members’ area.