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Anne Dalle Ave is a medical doctor, trained in intensive care medicine. She is currently working as a bioethicist at the University Hospital of Lausanne, in Switzerland. Her fields of research concern ethical issues in transplantation, donation after circulatory determination of death, brain death, the boundary between life and death, clinical ethics, and ethics and spirituality.

Nadezhda Beliakova, PhD, is Senior Scientific Fellow at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Science; Associate Professor at Sechenov University (Moscow). Her main research fields include religion and the state in the Cold War, gender in religious communities of the USSR, and female bodies in late Soviet society. She is coauthor of books on the relationship between communism and churches and on women’s religion in orthodox and evangelical communities in the Soviet Union after WWII.

Eva Maria Belser, PhD, holds a Chair for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Fribourg and a UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Democracy. She is Co-Director of the Institute of Federalism and a Board Member of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Human Rights. She teaches and publishes in the field of Swiss and comparative constitutional law, federalism, decentralization and globalization, human and minority rights, and democracy, as well as constitution making and conflict resolution.

Matthew Bennett, PhD, is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He works on topics in moral psychology, moral and political philosophy, and healthcare ethics, with particular interest in trust and responsibility. He also teaches and researches post-Kantian history of philosophy, focusing primarily on Nietzsche.

Cécile Bensimon, PhD, is Director of Ethics and Professional Affairs at the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and Chair of the Research Ethics Board at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto Institute of Medical Science and Joint Centre for Bioethics. Her publications have appeared in the British Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Public Health Ethics, and Social Science and Medicine. She is an editor of the bilingual Canadian Journal of Bioethics.

Jason Brennan is the Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is the author of thirteen books, including When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice (Princeton University Press 2018). He is currently working on a theory of political representation for democratic realists.

Claudine Burton-Jeangros, PhD, is Professor at the Institute of Sociological Research at the University of Geneva. She teaches and conducts research in sociology of health and medicine, with a focus on contested understandings of public health risks and on health inequalities in the context of the National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES project, “Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives.” She is a member of the ELSI group of the Swiss COVID-19 Science Task Force.

Luca Chiapperino, PhD, is Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Ambizione Lecturer at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests lie at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and applied philosophy. Currently, he is investigating the production of biosocial understandings of intergenerational responsibilities in epigenetic research, within the framework of the Ambizione project “Constructing the Biosocial: An Engaged Inquiry into Epigenetics and Post-Genomic Biosciences” (SNSF number: PZ00P1_185822). His papers have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals and collections, as well as in international conferences.

Stéphanie Dagron, PhD, is Professor of Law at the University of Geneva (medical faculty and law faculty), teaching international, European, and national health and social security law. She practices international law in her work as a consultant for the World Health Organization in the fields of tuberculosis, human rights, and research ethics. Her research focuses on global health law, public health law, and the human rights approach to health.

Marion Fischer is an ethicist at the Clinical Ethics Unit of the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Leslie Francis, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Distinguished Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Utah. She writes widely on ethical and legal issues in disability, justice, and bioethics. Her recent books...

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