Health for All in An Unequal World: Obligations of Global Bioethics (360G-Wellcome-210568_Z_18_Z)

Despite several gains in health research and healthcare, global health insecurity is a formidable challenge for the health and bioethics communities. The public health crisis due to Ebola, Zika, and the conflict induced devastations across the globe, for instance, are testimonials of these realities – the inequities, the poor plight of national as well as global health systems, their preparedness and the ethical issues therein. Given this, the 14th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) by the International Association of Bioethics, scheduled during 4-7 December 2018 in Delhi, India is being organized by Sama Resource Group for Women and Health and Forum for Medical Ethics Society on the theme of "Health for All in An Unequal World: Obligations of Global Bioethics". The Congress will establish deeper synergies between multi-disciplinary constituencies towards strengthened ethical practice, policy, law in the context of Health for All. Activities leading to and during the Congress will enable mobilization, skill building and networking, particularly of the next generation of South-Asian bioethicists and provide a platform for intersectional dialogue. A spectrum of sub thematic areas drawn from the main Congress theme will be discussed at the Congress.