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2022 Brocher Meetup sessions

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Navigating the surrogacy labyrinth: the ethical, legal and psychological dimensions for children

Surrogacy – where the person who gestates and gives birth to a child is not the intended parent – is on the rise around the world. Fuelled by assisted reproductive technologies and the growing acceptability of alternative family structures, the practice is controversial and in urgent need of attention and reform. This Meetup will touch on the constellation of ways that children can be born of surrogacy arrangements (including the use of donor gametes), and the implications of this diversity for their wellbeing, rights and the regulations required to protect them. It will address questions such as: What ethical questions does the practice raise? What can the history of international adoption teach us about the importance of transparency and safeguarding? How are children born of surrogates likely to have made meaning of their experience? What kinds of reforms are necessary to protect children’s rights – and is a rights framework itself sufficient to raise the likelihood of a positive outcome for children?

Sally Davies – Editor, Aeon Magazine, UK

Mia Dambach – Executive Director, Child Identity Protection, Geneva, Switzerland

mia.dambach@child-identity.org

Géraldine Mathieu – Professor of family and youth law at the University of Namur and member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Children’s Rights, Belgium

geraldine.mathieu@unamur.be

Sharon Pettle – Dr., Consultant Child and Family Clinical Psychologist & Systemic Psychotherapist Expert Witness in Family Proceedings and Extradition & Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London, UK

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DrSharonPettle@popsiiiicle.com

Brocher Meetup Replays

Special Edition # 1 | 13 November 2020 | The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Humanitarian Crisis

For this special edition, we received:

Karl Blanchet Professor @ Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva
Joanne Liù Doctor @ University of Montreal
Antoine Flahault Professor @ University of Geneva
Ciara Staunton Doctor @ Middlesex University of London as moderator

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# 1 | 28 January 2021 | Covid and bioethics; What role have bioethicists have played in forming policy, what have we learned so far and how best to be constructive going forward

For this first Brocher Meetup, we received:

Arthur Caplan Professor @ NYU Grossmann School of Medicine
Kiarash Aramesh Assistant Professor @ Edinboro University
Thomas Douglas Professor @ University of Oxford
Jan Heldge Solbakk Professor @ University of Oslo
Yeyang Su Doctor@ Chinese Academy of Sciences of Beijing

Related Bibliography:

Kupferschmidt, K. (2020) WHO unveils global plan to fairly distribute COVID-19 vaccine, but challenges await. Science ( Link) | World Health Organization (2020) WHO SAGE values framework for the allocation and prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination, 14 September 2020 (Link) | COVAX – Working for global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines (Link)

Initiatives from South Africa and India in calling for the IP reform to facilitate access to vaccines in less resourceful countries. Usher, A. D. (2020) South Africa and India push for COVID-19 patents ban. The Lancet. [Online] 396 (10265), 1790–1791.
Springer article (Link)

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# 2 | 11 February 2021 | Priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination: Ethics, policy and practice in select jurisdictions

For this second Brocher Meetup, we received:

Françoise Baylis Professor @ Dalhousie University
Gaia Barazzetti Senior Researcher @ University of Lausanne
Angus Clarke Professor @ Cardiff University
Bjorn Hoffman Professor @ University of Oslo
Jan Eerik Leppänen PhD Researcher @ Felm NGO

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