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Hu Lin-Ying is an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the Peking University Health Science Center and Deputy Director of the Medical Ethics and Health Law Center of Medical Humanities at Peking University. In addition to being an IRB member of several comprehensive medical institutes and hospitals in Beijing, Dr. Hu also teaches medical ethics and bioethics to graduate students in Peking University. Her research interests include medical ethics, medical professionalism and research ethics in China’s context. In the past five years, she has published nearly 20 articles in English and Chinese peer-review journals.

Huang Wen is presently an MA student in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, at Peking Union Medical College. Her publications include: “Ethical Analysis and Governance Study of Digital Identity and Digital Divide” and “On Privacy Protection in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies”, both in Chinese Medical Ethics (2014); and “Ethical Issues in Big Data”, in Science and Society (2014). Her research interests are ethics of information and communication technologies, and addiction neuroethics.

Amar Jesani is an independent consultant, researcher, and teacher of bioethics and public health at five institutions in India. He is a trustee of the Anusandhan Trust, which manages three institutions: the CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes, www.cehat.org); CSER (Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights, www.cser.in); and SATHI (Support for Advocacy and Training in Health Initiatives, www.sathicehat.org). He is also one of the founders of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and its journal, IJME (Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, www.ijme.in), of which he is the editor-in-chief.

Liu Ran graduated from Harbin Medical University, where she majored in preventive medicine, and was awarded the Bachelor of Medicine in 2011. Since then, she has been an MA graduate student in Philosophy of Science and Technology (Bioethics) at the Department of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Peking Union Medical School. Her research interests are ethics in psychiatry, especially the ethical issues in the diagnosis of mental disorders and involuntary commitment.

Qiu Renzong is Emeritus Professor in the Institute of Philosophy; Honorary Director in the Centre for Applied Ethics, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Professor and Chair of the Academic Committee, in the Center for Bioethics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, at Peking Union Medical College; Vice-President of the Ethics Committee, MOH; and member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on AIDS and Human Rights. Dr. Qiu was awarded laureates at the 2002 World Network of Technology [End Page 201] Awards Ethics; the 2009 UNESCO Avicenna Prize of Ethics of Science; and the 2011 Henry Knowles Beecher Award. He has published 25 books and more than 400 articles in China and internationally.

Zhai Xiaomei is Professor of Philosophy/Bioethics and Executive Director in the Centre for Bioethics, at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College. She is also Professor and Director in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, at Peking Union Medical College. She has been a visiting professor at universities in Singapore, the USA, and has studied in Europe. Dr. Zhai currently serves as a member of the National Public Policy Committee as well as the China Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, and she is President of the Society of Bioethics, China Society for Philosophy and Science & Technology, and Chair of the Ethics Group, China Society of AIDS. She is Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Medical Ethics, is on the Editorial Board of the British Medical Journal (Chinese version), Basic Medicine and Clinics, Medicine and Philosophy, Chinese Medical Biotechnologies, and has published widely on the subject.

Zhu Wei is Associate Professor in the Center for Applied Ethics and Department of Social Sciences, at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She has a special interest in informed consent, social justice, human rights, genetic ethics and research oversight in low- and middle-income nations. Dr. Zhu has published more than 20 papers in bioethics-related fields, written one book (Informed Consent in Bioethics), and co-authored four other volumes. She has led and organised several major research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China...

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