List of Editors

Read full text
Authors: Nikola Biller-Andorno, Julian W März, Corine Mouton-Dorey, Stéphanie Dagron
Cited by: 0

Abstract

Nikola Biller-Andorno directs the Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Having trained as a physician and philosopher, she specializes in biomedical ethics and has held positions at University of Göttingen (DE), the WHO, and the Charité in Berlin. Between 2012 and 2014, she was a Visiting Professor and Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow at Harvard, exploring ethical issues at the interface of healthcare management and economics; from 2016 to 2020, she held a fellowship at the Collegium Helveticum, a Swiss Institute of Advanced Studies, that focused on the digital transformation of medicine. As a Past-President of the International Association of Bioethics and as Chair of the WHO Collaborating Centre Network for Bioethics, she has a keen interest in the global dimension of the key bioethical challenges our societies face. Julian W. MÄrz is a physician, lawyer, and bioethicist currently working as a research fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich. In addition, he is currently leading a WHO curriculum development project on Integrating Ethics and Governance into the Design of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Health. He is also acting as lead scientific adviser for the review and reform process of the Federal Law on the Genetic Testing of Humans by the Swiss federal government. Before joining the University of Zurich, he worked for the Division of Health Economics at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg for three years, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in medicine. In parallel, he has worked as a research affiliate in pharmaceutical law for the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Law, Medicine, and Life Sciences and as a lecturer in public health law at Sciences Po Paris. Corine Mouton-Dorey is a physician and ethicist. After working as a Cardiology Specialist and Researcher on myocardial metabolism in France (MD, postgraduate diploma in cardiology, DEA in cellular and molecular biology), Corine pursued research in the pharmaceutical industry in Paris, Frankfurt, and London (MBA at London Business School). She returned to the academic world first at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Institute of Clinical Nutrition), then at the University of Neuchâtel (LLM in health law) and at the University of Zurich (UZH) at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME), where she obtained her doctorate in biomedical ethics and law, specifically in the development of a new ethical framework for managing patient data. She coordinated a multidisciplinary approach to digital health as part of UZH’s Digital Society Initiative. She is an affiliated researcher at IBME. Her interests include qualitative research, social ethics, and the application of care ethics to ecology. Stéphanie Dagron is Professor of Law at the University of Geneva with a special expertise in international social security law and global health law. She has a double appointment at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine and is affiliated with the Global Studies Institute. Since 2013, Stéphanie has practiced international law in her work as a consultant for the WHO in the fields of tuberculosis, human rights, research ethics, and infectious diseases.

Publication details

Publication date
7 January 2026
Language
EN