The health ethics expert will participate in CILAC 2018, presenting at the table on ethical principles for climate change policies. This debate on regulatory ethical frameworks seeks to raise awareness about the ethical and political implications of the decisions made in this regard, especially in the most vulnerable sectors of society.
Henk ten Have is Director of the Center for Health Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, United States. Prior to this position, he was Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology (2003-2010) at UNESCO.
He was born in Holland, where he completed his secondary studies and obtained his medical degree in 1976. He also obtained a doctorate in philosophy. He later moved to the Catholic University of Nijmegen, where he was appointed full professor of medical ethics. He was involved in many public debates and expert committees on healthcare ethics and health policy. He was appointed to the Central Committee for Research with Human Subjects in the Netherlands, and served on the Ethical Review panel of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
In 2003 he took the position of Director of the Ethics of Science and Technology Division at UNESCO in Paris. He was then invited by the United States to develop a universal declaration of global bioethical principles. The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights was unanimously adopted by all UNESCO Member States at that time. Since then, Ten Have has established UNESCO programs to implement the Declaration, such as the Ethics Education programme, the Global Ethics Observatory and the National Bioethics Committees programme.
When he retired from UNESCO in 2010, he was named Director of the Center for Health Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Henk ten Have is one of the founders and the Secretary and Treasurer of the International Association for Ethics Education, established in April 2011.
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