Brocher Summer Academy

on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) in Assisted Reproductive

Technologies (ART)

1 – 5 June 2015 The Brocher Summer Academy brings together distinguished professors from different disciplines and countries and highly promising researchers willing to acquire a strong background on a ELSI in ART. It gives the participants a rare opportunity to meet personally and exchange ideas with many established international professors in an intimate and collegiate atmosphere. The sessions take place at the Brocher Centre in Geneva, Switzerland in an amazing and peaceful environment on the shore of the Lake of Geneva.

Scientific Committee

Florencia Luna Director of the Bioethics program at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Argentina Mainly Specialized: ELSI in the ART

Guido Pennings Member of the Task Force on Ethics and Law of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Director of the Bioethics Institute Ghent Belgium Mainly Specialized: Ethics of ART

Gamal Serour Director International Islamic Center For Population Studies and Research, Al Azhar University Egypt Mainly Specialized: ART, Ethics, Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Basil Tarlatzis Former Chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE - 1997-1999) Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece Mainly Specialized: Reproductive Medicine

Anna Veiga Former Chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE – 2011-2013) Director of the Stem Cell Bank at the Centre of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona Spain

Sheryl van der Poel Director of Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO Geneva

Ruth Macklin Co-director of National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center Training Program in Research Ethics Professor of Bioethics, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine USA Mainly Specialized: ELSI in ART

Betina Cunado Lawyer specialized in Human Rights and Gender Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Argentina Mainly Specialized: Legislation on Health and Gender Issues

Confirmed Speakers

Francoise Baylis Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University Canada Mainly Specialized: Gender Issues and Public Health

Ian Cooke Chair of the Infertility Research Trust Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield UK Mainly Specialized: Assisted Reproduction in low resource economies

Susan Golombok Director, Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge UK Mainly Specialized: Parenting and child development in ART families

Florencia Luna Director of the Bioethics program at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Argentina Mainly Specialized: ELSI in the ART

Sabine Michalowski Professor of Law at the University of Essex, UK Mainly Specialized: Health care Law and Human Rights

Edgar Mocanu Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Medicine at Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland Mainly Specialized: Assisted Reproductive Medicine

Amrita Pande Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Cape Town South Africa Mainly Specialized: Cross-border surrogacy, (sociology of) reproductive labor

Francoise Shenfield Clinical Lecturer in Infertility and Honorary Lecturer in Medical Ethics at University College London Medical School UK Mainly Specialized: Ethical Legal and Social Aspects of (in)fertility (ELSI)

Olga Van den Akker Professor of Health Psychology in the school of Health & Education at the Middlesex University UK Mainly Specialized: Health Psychology, Assisted Reproductive Technology.

The Summer Academy 2015 will address a much controversial topic: ELSI in assisted Reproductive Technologies. The impact in social life, the dimension of the infertility problem, the challenges raised by new developments of ART, Donor related issues, homoparenting, public policy and legislative regulations on reproduction, embryo and gamete statue, and economic and cost-effectiveness analysis, insurance policies implications and regulatory agencies, are all subjects that will be discuss during the five days of the Academy. Key experts and Senior Academic will lecture and lead the debate with the participants. Target audience Physicians, Biologists, Scientists, people working in the ART, journalists and scholars (advanced graduate student in philosophy, political science, economics and other social science, the biomedical science, health policy and global health). Selection Process The application form is available on our website: www.brocher.ch. It should be accompanied by a short CV, one writing sample, and a one-paragraph description of your current research interests. The Scientific Committee of the Summer Academy will effectuate the selection of the attendance and will not justify its decision.

Early registration is highly recommended (50 seats)

Registration modalities A registration fee is required from all accepted participants. It covers daily lectures, course documentation, five nights accommodation (on the Brocher domain and/or in its surroundings), five lunches and four dinners. Registration fee:

• 850 chf: Professionals or

• 550 chf: Scholars & PhD students

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2015