XVI International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics of the UB: "Emerging technologies and personal data protection in health"

The XVI International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics of the University of Barcelona will be held on February 10, 2022, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Spanish time, UTC+1), under the name of "Emerging technologies and personal data protection in health".

The writer and journalist Marta Peirano will give the inaugural conference "Icontrol: la frontera de los datos médicos en el mundo post-covid" ("Icontrol: the frontier of health data in the post-covid world").

Next, a round table will be held with the participation of: Jesús Rubí Navarrete, representative of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD); José Luis Molina, professor of Anthropology and president of the Ethics Committee on Animal and Human Experimentation (CEEAH) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona; Robert Rubió, head of the Office of the Data Protection Officer of the TIC Salut Social Foundation and associate professor at the University of Barcelona; and Itziar de Lecuona, associate professor of the Department of Medicine and director of the Bioethics and Law Observatory of the University of Barcelona.

The event will also feature a tribute to the Dr. Ana Sánchez-Urrutia, who passed away last August, and who played a significant role in the creation of the Bioethics and Law Observatory and the start of the Master in Bioethics and Law of the University of Barcelona.

The seminar will be free, with prior registration,​ and will be held as a hybrid event: in-person and online.

You can download the full program here.

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