Txetxu
Ausín is a tenured scientist at the Institute of Philosophy (Spanish National
Research Council) at the Unit of Applied Ethics in Madrid. He is also an
Invited Professor in Bioethics and Contemporary Ethics at the Instituto Tecnológico
de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM, México. He is involved in the
Spanish Leibniz Society and the Spanish Association for Ethics and Politics as
well as he is manager of the web and journal about Applied Ethics DILEMATA (www.dilemata.net). His main research areas
are Ethics and Government, Human Rights and Global Justice and Economy on a
Human Scale: Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Development.
Mar
Cabezas is a Postdoc researcher at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research
(CEPR) of the University of Salzburg, where she works in the project “Social
Justice and Child Poverty”. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from the
University of Salamanca (2012) specializing in the role of emotions in moral
reasoning. She has a M.A. in Human Rights and is an Expert in Psychological
Effects of Child Mistreatment (UNED, 2011).
Rosario
Carmona is lecturer on Public International Law and International Relations at
the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville), awarded the Human Rights Essay Award
(Washington College of Law) in 2011 for her work on the rights of children. She
also collaborates with the Université Catholique de Lyon (France) and UNICEF.
Her main research focus is children´s rights, child migration and child abuse.
Bill
Gardner is a senior scientist in the area of pediatric mental health services
research, outcomes measurement, quality measurement, ethics, and health policy
at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, ON). Dr. Gardner trained
as a child psychologist and statistician. He was previously professor of
pediatrics at Dalhousie University and the Ohio State University. He has
published extensively in the field of pediatric health services research. His
research is focused on improving mental health care for children.
Gunter
Graf is Postdoc researcher at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR)
of the University of Salzburg, where he works in the project “Social Justice
and Child Poverty”. He is also research fellow at the international research
centre for social and ethical questions (IFZ) in Salzburg. He mainly works in
political and social philosophy, with a focus on the capability approach and
its relation to poverty and children.
Carlos
Pitillas is a psychologist from the University of Comillas (Madrid), also
trained in the Infant-Parent Institute (Illinois). He has worked with children
diagnosed with cancer from 2006-201, he has also collaborated with several
projects such as Children Play Therapy Instrument (CPTI; New York) and, and
Circle of Security (Washington.) Since 2012 he works with families at risk of
social exclusion in Madrid.
Gottfried
Schweiger works at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, University of
Salzburg, where he is currently the Principal Investigator of the research
project "Social Justice and Child Poverty" (funded by the Austrian
Science Fund (FWF): P 26480-G15). Schweiger is a trained philosopher and his interests
lie in social and political philosophy, and the philosophy of sports.
Rosana Triviño currently
teaching bioethics and legal philosophy at the University of A Coruña, is a
PhD. in Moral Philosophy (University of Salamanca) also graduated in Humanities
(Carlos III University of Madrid) and Physiotherapy (University of Comillas),
and M. A. in Political Science and
Constitutional Law (UNED), receiving the prize for the best research in the
2008/2009 edition for her work on patient autonomy and refuse treatment on
religious grounds concerning the STC 154/2002. She was a researcher
JAE-Predoctoral at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC and has been a
visiting researcher at Oxford (Uehiro Center for Applied Ethics), Cleveland
(Case Western Reserve University), Princeton (Princeton University) and New
York (Hastings Center).
Sridhar
Venkatapuram is a lecturer in global health and philosophy, and Director of the
MSc in Global Health & Social Justice. Sridhar’s research and expertise is
in global/public health, human rights, ethics and philosophy. He aims to bridge
normative reasoning, particularly about social justice, with relevant natural
and social sciences related to human health. He has academic training in a
range of disciplines including international relations (Brown), public health
(Harvard), sociology (Cambridge) and political philosophy (Cambridge). At
Harvard, he worked with the late Arjun Sengupta, UN Independent Expert on the
Right to Development, in conceptualizing its philosophical and ethical framework.
He was the first researcher at Human Rights Watch to specifically focus on
health as a human rights concern.
Sepideh
Yousefzadeh is Post-doc Researcher at the University of Groningen. Her
current research interests focus on “Normative indicators of child growth” and
her PhD thesis (from Maastricht Graduate School of Governance) dealt with
multidimensional child poverty in Iran. Prior to her experience as a
researcher, she has been working with several international organisations and
NGOs in Iran and Afghanistan. Her previous academic training has been in public
administration at Harvard University.
