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Emilie Cloatre is a Professor of Medical Law at King’s College London, and Principal Investigator for the project Between Deception and Dissent. She is a socio-legal scholar whose main research interests lie in the intersection between law and medicine. She is interested in exploring how law and health knowledges shape each other, and in questioning the impact of law in furthering, perpetuating or, potentially, challenging health inequalities. She has studied these issues in a relation to access to healthcare; pharmaceutical flows; and the regulation of alternative and traditional medicine.

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UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, GHANA

Caesar Atuire is a philosopher and health ethicist, Co-Associate Director of Oxford Global Health and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ghana. Caesar’s interests and research in bioethics are conceptual and empirical. On the former, he works around revisiting bioethics by drawing on philosophical ideas, African and non-African, that address inequity in global health with an eye to new ethical frontiers, decolonization, and pluriversality. At the empirical level, he has engaged with clinical ethics for nursing trainees in Ghana, served on IRBS, and led empirical research on conceptualizations and ethics of mental healthcare.

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UNIVERSITY OF LOUGHBOROUGH, UK

Máiréad Enright is a Professor of Feminist Legal Studies at the University of Loughborough. Her research is in feminist legal studies and critical legal theory, with a particular focus on law and religion. She has written on issues including reproductive justice, law reform and grassroots organising, illegality in social movements, responses to historical injustice and obstetric violence.  She often works with and advises groups campaigning around reproductive rights and historical gender-based violence, especially in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is also interested in collaborations between artists and legal scholars.

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McGill University, Canada

Phoebe Friesen is an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Equity, Ethics and Policy and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.  Her interests span medical ethics, psychiatry, philosophy of science, and research ethics. Among other topics, she has written about the harms of failing to acknowledge the impact of the placebo effect in both research and clinical contexts, the role of responsibility in the allocation of health care resources, the promises and challenges related to participatory research, and the importance of requiring consent for educational pelvic examinations on women under anesthetic.

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UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK

Patricia Kingori is a sociologist at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. Her work is concerned with understanding, exploring and documenting different forms of ethics and power in health, medicine and science. For instance one of Patricia’s research projects  examines what can be learnt from examining fakes in contemporary society as part of her Wellcome-funded Fakes, Fabrications and Falsehoods project. Patricia has extensive experience undertaking research in different countries, primarily in Africa and South East Asia. Her work is widely published in high-impact journals and has featured in various media outlets including The Guardian, The Times, BBC News and NPR.

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Université Cheik Anta Diop, Sénégal

Tidiane Ndoye is a Professor of Medical Sociology at the Université Cheik Anta Diop. His research focuses on health practices and policies in contemporary Senegal. He has worked on a range of topics including the impact of poverty on health practices; the social attitudes andpractices that surround malaria and its treatment; the challenges of family planning program delivery in low-income populations; and the local effects of global health programmes in Senegal. His work builds on empirical research, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UK

Martyn Pickersgill is a professor in Edinburgh Medical School, where he holds a Personal Chair in the Sociology of Science and Medicine. He conducts research, teaching, and engagement in the social dimensions of biomedicine. In 2018, he co-founded the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society and is currently Co-Director of the Centre. In 2020, he also became Co-Director of a new £5.3m Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in 'One Health Animal Models of Disease: Science, Ethics and Society'. Martyn's research has focused in particular on the sociologies of epigenetics, neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology.

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UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER, UK

Dr. Urquiza Haas is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Lancaster, and an interdisciplinary legal scholar. Her research draws on socio-legal studies to explore the regulation of medicines, drugs and healthcare practices at the edge of legality. Among other topics, her previous work has offered critical and feminist accounts of contemporary drug policies; and explored the regulation of herbal medicines and traditional healing. Before her academic career, she worked in the NGO and news media sectors, including Harm Reduction International and the Centre for Human Rights and Drug Policy at Essex University.