We are delighted announce the schedule of the London Bioethics Colloquium (previously KCL/UCL Joint Bioethics Colloquium) for the next academic year – please find it below.

The first speaker of the year will be Octavio Ferraz:

10 October 2016, 16:00-17:30
King’s College London, Strand Campus, Somerset House East Wing, SW1.17 (Ante Room)

Octavio Ferraz (King’s College London): Who should we treat? Rare diseases, universal health coverage and children’s right to health

For those of you who have attended the colloquium in previous years, there are two relevant changes.

First, we are relaunching the colloquium as the London Bioethics Colloquium so as to broaden the range of speakers and speakers. We remain committed to promoting exchange between bioethicists working at King’s and UCL, and we will continue to alternate sessions between both universities. But we are keen to foster the variety of both speakers and topics — and to make clearer that the Colloquium is a resource for bioethicists all over London.

Second, for the next academic year, we have had to shift the colloquium from the first Thursday of the month during term time to the first Monday of the month. The sessions continue to be held from 16:00-17:30 with the possibility to go for drinks afterwards.

Contacts: Dr Annette Rid: annette.ridATkcl.ac.uk OR Dr James Wilson james.wilsonATucl.ac.uk

London Bioethics Colloquium 

Schedule, Academic Year 2016-17

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10 October 2016, 16:00-17:30
King’s College London, Strand Campus, Somerset House East Wing, SW1.17 (Ante Room)

Octavio Ferraz (King’s College London): Who should we treat? Rare diseases, universal health coverage and children’s right to health

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7 November 2016, 16:00-17:30
University College London, location TBC

Jochen Vollmann (Ruhr University Bochum): Personalised medicine: priority-setting and opportunity costs at an international scale
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5 December 2016, 16:00-17:30
King’s College London, Strand Campus, Somerset House East Wing, SW1.18 (Moot Court)

Arnon Keren (University of Haifa / King’s College London): Autonomy, ignorance and informed consent

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6 February 2017, 16:00-17:30
King’s College London, location TBC

Garrett Brown (University of Sheffield): An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure: Global health justice and the new global health emergency financing facilities’
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6 March 2016, 16:00-17:30
University College London, location TBC

Emily McTernan (University College London): title TBC