Fatima Alvarez-Castillo, Ph.D., is Professor of Politics, Social Research and Gender at the University of the Philippines, Manila. Her research work focuses on the interphase of human rights and power on questions involving indigenous ethics, women's rights, resiliency, and health policy.

Pamela Andanda, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a scientific advisory committee member of UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/World Health Organisation-WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and an Executive member of Ethics, Law and Human Rights Working Group (ELH) of the African AIDS Vaccine Programme (AAVP). Her research interests are in the areas of biotechnology, health law, bioethics, policy analysis, commercial law, and regulation of biomedical research.

Bette Anton, M.L.S., is Head Librarian for the Pamela & Kenneth Fong Optometry & Health Sciences Library of the University of California, Berkeley. This library serves the UC Berkeley School of Optometry and the UC Berkeley–UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program.

Gardar Arnason, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His main research areas include research ethics and ethical issues in genetics.

Roger Chennells, L.L.M., is founding partner of Chennells Albertyn, a firm practicing human rights law in Stellenbosch and Cape Town, South Africa. His primary interests are in assisting indigenous communities with their rights to land, heritage, and intellectual property, and he has been legal advisor to the San peoples since 2002.

Rosa Cordillera Castillo is a Master's student of anthropology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her advocacy and research interests center on the anthropology of human rights, specifically tackling indigenous peoples's rights, violence, the body, and gender.

Eugenijus Gefenas, M.D., Ph.D., is Director of the Department of Medical History and Ethics and Associate Professor at the Medical faculty of Vilnius University. He is also the Chairman of the Lithuanian Bioethics Committee. His main research areas include research ethics and bioethical issues of transition societies.

Lynn Gillam, B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D., is an ethicist. Her academic background is in philosophy, theology, and bioethics. She is Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne. She is also the Clinical Ethicist at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and Academic Director of the Children's Bioethics Centre, a partnership of the Royal Children's Hospital, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and the University of Melbourne.

Nada Gligorov, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Bioethics Program, Union Graduate College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. She writes and teaches in both bioethics and philosophy of mind.

Marilys Guillemin, Ph.D., is Deputy Director and Associate Professor in the Centre for Health and Society, School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a sociologist with research interests in narrative ethics and research ethics.

Matti Häyry, Lic.Sc. (soc.) D.Sc. (soc.), is Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. His main research interests include theories of moral and political philosophy and the concepts used in bioethics.

D. Micah Hester, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He also serves as Associate Director of the UAMS Division of Medical Humanities and as clinical ethicist at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

Kenneth V. Iserson, M.D., M.B.A., is Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine), Director of the Program in Bioethics, and Chair of the Bioethics Committee at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.

Greg Loeben, Ph.D., is the Book Review Editor for CQ and Faculty Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona.

Julie Cook Lucas is a Research Associate at the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. She has a special interest in women's health issues, particularly around user involvement in the development and delivery of health services, and also in issues around academia and activism.

Rosalind McDougall, B.Phil., B.A. (Hons.), B.Sc., is completing a Ph.D. in medical ethics at the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include junior doctors’ ethical challenges, ethics education, and the moral nature of parenthood.

Anton van Niekerk, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Ethics Institute of South Africa (EthicSA), as well as a Board Member of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB). His main research areas are Bioethics, with special emphasis on public health issues in the developing world.

Kayhan Parsi, J.D., Ph.D, is Associate Professor in the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois.

Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D., is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School, The City University of New York. She is co-editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine and co-editor of Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Oxford University Press; 2002).

Doris Schroeder, Ph.D., is Professor of Moral Philosophy, Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England, and Professional Fellow, CAPPE, School of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Mark Sheehan, Ph.D., is a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences that is a part of the Faculty of Philosophy and the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford. His current research interests in applied ethics are arguments about interfering with nature, particularly as they are applied to new reproductive technologies and various issues in research ethics.

James J. Strain, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York.

Tuija Takala, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor in Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her main research interest lies in the philosophical analysis of bioethical concepts and theories.

Leigh Turner, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.