WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION UNESCO CAIRO OFFICE FIRST REGIONAL MEETING OF NATIONAL BIOETHICS COMMITTEES EMRO, 5-7 May 2007 PARTICIPANTS: Dr Mir Lais Mustafa Secretary Institutional Review Board Kabul AFGHANISTAN Dr Ibrahim Badran Chairman Dr Helmi El Hadidi Dr Hamid El Kadi PROVISIONAL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Ms Naima Sayed Sherif Senior Specialist Egyptian National Commission for UNESCO Dr Sayed Seif 1
Dr Gamal Serour Chairman FIGO Committee for Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction and Women s Health International Bioethics Committee (IBC) Dr Magdy Shehata Professor, Faculty of Science Ain Shams University Dr Hussein Malek Afzali Deputy Minister for Research & Technology Head Teheran ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN Dr Saqer Abdel Rehim Arab Committee of Ethics of Science and Technology Amman JORDAN Dr Ibrahim Ramahi Research Ethics Committee of Ministry of Health Amman JORDAN Dr Soheil Shaheen Rapporteur National Ethics Committee for Science Amman JORDAN H.E. Dr Marwan Hamade Minister of Telecommunication Chairman National bioethics committee International Bioethics Committee (IBC) 2
Beirut LEBANON Dr Abdul Qader El Maleh Arab Committee of Ethics for Science and Technology Tripoli LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA Dr Ahmad Ben Salem El Azri Oman National Ethics Commission for UNESCO Muscat OMAN Dr Huma Qureshi /Secretary Pakistan Medical Research Council Islamabad PAKISTAN Dr Khalid Alali World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) Arab Committee of Ethics for Science and Technology Doha QATAR Dr Faisel Abu-Duhier Riyadh SAUDI ARABIA Eng Abdullah A. Al-Rajhi Secretary Riyadh SAUDI ARABIA Dr Egbal El Haag Agbar Assistant of the Sudanese National Commission for UNESCO National Sudanese Bioethics Committee Khartoum SUDAN 3
Dr Iman Mustafa Reporter National Ethics Review Committee Khartoum SUDAN Dr Fawaz El Saleh International Bioethics Committee (IBC) Damascus SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC Dr Fathia El Zaghl Arab Committee of Ethics of Sciences and Technology Tunis TUNISIA Dr Majed Zemni National Ethics Committee Tunis TUNISIA Dr Abdullah Hattab Arab Committee of Ethics for Science and Technology Aden YEMEN GUEST SPEAKERS Dr Judith Sandor Centre for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine Central European University Budapest HUNGARY Dr Henry Silverman Middle East Research Ethics Training Initiative (MERETI) University of Maryland Maryland USA 4
Regional and International Organizations Dr Bahloul Eliagoubi Department of Science and Scientific Research Program The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization ALECSO Tunis TUNISIA Dr Salwa Bassiri Vice president The Arab Committee of Ethics of Science and Technology The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization ALECSO Lebanese National Commission for UNESCO Beirut LEBANON Dr Inez de Beaufort European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS Dr Tawfiq Khoja General Health Ministers Council for Gulf Cooperation Council States (GCC) Riyadh SAUDI ARABIA Dr Nouzha Guessous-Idrissi Chairperson The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) Rabat MOROCCO Dr Abdul Rahman El Awady President Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS) Kuwait KUWAIT Dr Ahmad El Guindy Assistant 5
Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS) Kuwait KUWAIT UNESCO Secretariat Henk Ten have,, Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, UNESCO/HQ Awad El Hassan, Regional, UNESCO/ Orio Ikebe, Programme Specialist, UNESCO/ Mona Abdul Sattar, Assistant Program Specialist, UNESCO/Doha Enriqe Pinilla, UNESCO/Amman Hanan El-Guindy, Consultant, UNESCO/ Neveen Abd Al Wahab, Secretary, UNESCO/ WHO Secretariat Dr Hussein A. Gezairy, Regional, WHO/EMRO Dr M. H. Khayat, Senior Policy Adviser to the Regional, WHO/EMRO Dr Abdel Aziz Saleh, Special Adviser (Medicine) to the Regional, WHO/EMRO Dr Mohamed Jama, Deputy Regional, WHO/EMRO Dr Abdullah Assa edi, Assistant Regional, WHO/EMRO Dr Mohammed Afzal, A/Regional Advisor, Research Policy & Cooperation, WHO/EMRO Dr Alaa Abou Zeid, Technical Officer, Research Policy & Cooperation, WHO/EMRO Dr Andreas Reis, Programme Specialist, WHO/HQ Dr Marie-Charlotte Bouesseau, Programme Specialist, WHO/HQ Ms. Amani Kamal, Senior Secretary, WHO/EMRO Ms. Marwa El Saghir, Secretary, WHO/EMRO Mr.Mohamed Abd Elmohsen IT Support WHO/EMRO 6