Marcel Verweij

Biographical Sketch

Marcel Verweij is associate professor at the Ethics Institute and the Department of Philosophy of Utrecht University. His research interests concern ethical issues in public health and the rome of moral theorie in applied ethics. Current topics include ethics in emergency contexts, pandemic preparedness, vaccination, newborn screening programs and health promotion. These topics and policies raise numerous ethical questions, e.g. about (respectively) priority setting during influenza pandemics, moral obligations to avoid infection, informed consent, and medical paternalism. Verweij fulfilled consultative roles for the WHO (Ethical issues in influenza pandemic preparedness) and the European Centre for Disease Control and he is member of the Health Council of the Netherlands. He is Editor-in-Chief of the new Oxford journal Public Health Ethics and co-ordinator of the Public Health Ethics network of the International Association for Bioethics.

This conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University.