Is ethics pivotal to transformation?
| When: | Friday, 09 September 2016 - Friday, 09 September 2016 |
| Where: | Parktown Education Campus Resource Centre, School of Public Health Building |
| Start time: | 13:00 |
| RSVP: | Samkelo.Nsibande@wits.ac.za by 30 August 2016. |
The annual Steve Biko Bioethics Lecture will be delivered by Justice Dikgang Moseneke, former Constitutional Court judge and now Honorary Professor at Wits.
Moseneke, one of South Africa’s leading jurists, will explore the proper role of ethics in transformation in this lecture.
The former Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court joined the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics in Faculty of Health Science as Honorary Professor in June this year. He retired from the Constitutional Court in May this year after 14 years of dedicated service. He is also the Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, a position he has held since 2006.
About the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics
Situated in the School of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits University, the Centre is committed to the values of justice, dignity, respect and freedom - both intellectual and academic. It boasts with staff who has a wide range of expertise in ethics and who are deeply committed to furthering the discipline of bioethics in South Africa and internationally.
At national policy level, staff at the Centre provides advice and consultation in bioethics, human rights and health law for health sciences curricula, regulation, development and ethics in research for the country. At an international level, they contribute to programmes in UNESCO, the European Commission and The National Institutes of Health (US) to name but a few; and to the development of bioethics and research ethics capacity on the different African regions.
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