Johanna Ahola-Launonen, M.Sc., is a doctoral candidate in social and moral philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests focus on distributive justice, the philosophy of responsibility, social determinants of health, and the methodology of bioethics.
Karen Albert, M.A., is Project Director II in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Paul Applebaum, M.D., is Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law; Director of the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry; and Director of the Center for Research on Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic and Behavioral Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.
Vilhjálmur Árnason, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Iceland. He works mainly in the fields of practical philosophy and applied ethics.
Laura B. Dunn, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Gloria Hubner Chair in Psycho-Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.
David Gibson, M.A., M.Sc., is a doctoral candidate in bioethics and medical jurisprudence at the University of Manchester, UK. His research interests focus on narrative identity, psychotherapeutic ethics, mental capacity, and the physician-patient relationship.
John Harris, F.Med.Sci., D.Phil., is the Lord David Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the School of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Matti Häyry, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. He is currently studying the nature of bioethics, the ethical issues of synthetic biology, and justice and its alternatives in a globalizing world.
Sirkku K. Hellsten, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Docent of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also editor of the Journal of Global Ethics and a member of the international advisory board of the International Development Ethics Association.
Søren Holm, Ph.D., is Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy in the School of Law at the University of Manchester; Professor of Medical Ethics (part time) at the Centre for Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Oslo; and Professor of Medical Ethics at the Centre for Ethics in Practice at Aalborg University.
David R. Lawrence, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. He has published on the topic of human enhancement and the self, and his broader research interests include cyborg ethics and meta-/synthetic humanity.
Charles W. Lidz, Ph.D., is Research Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Herjeet Marway, M.A., is a lecturer in bioethics at the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. She has written on topics including commodification, commercial surrogacy, and the agency of female suicide bombers.
Eve Overton, B.A., is a student at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Ekaterina Pivovarova, Ph.D., is Research Fellow in the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ben A. Rich, J.D., Ph.D., is Professor and School of Medicine Alumni Association Endowed Chair of Bioethics at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento.
Tuija Takala, Ph.D., is Research Director at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland, and Adjunct Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She has just completed a project on the nature of philosophical bioethics, and in her current role she explores the ethical issues of synthetic biology.
Heather Widdows, Ph.D., is the John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Professor Widdows is a member of the Nuffield Council of Bioethics and currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.
