[SydPhil] Sydney Health Ethics Conversation - Warwick Anderson - 14 May

[Kathryn MacKay]

Warwick Anderson | 14 May
Sydney Health Ethics Conversation Series
'Bioethics for the Planet?'

Hi everyone,
Please join us for the next SHE Conversation series with Professor Warwick Anderson<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9TsVC2xMQziRO8D8pinfjU5AAaJ?domain=t.e2ma.net>.
Professor Warwick Anderson: Bioethics for the Planet?

Abstract
At the Monash palazzo in Prato in 2024, a group of ethicists, planetary health experts, social scientists, and humanities scholars assembled to devise a practical program to expand bioethics so as to incorporate environmental (and climate) ethics more effectively. After much discussion, and some heated debate, we wrote a manifesto, published last year in The Lancet, Bioethics for the Planet<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/je3dC3QNPBiG02r2pUqhyUQzx9V?domain=t.e2ma.net>. Since then, I’ve worked with Prof Jakelin Troy<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/JLx8C4QOPEim3lwlBfBi7U4aqOd?domain=t.e2ma.net>et al. on Indigenous articulations with planetary health, and with Profs Lisa Adkins<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/oOevC5QPXJix46r6ZH2sNUk9s_t?domain=t.e2ma.net> and Louise Baur<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nncyC6XQ4Lf18y4yrUxtrU5uLD5?domain=t.e2ma.net> et al. on intergenerational equity in planetary health, and with Genevieve Dally-Watkins<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/qjPPC71R2NTQoZBZACRuAUomqLQ?domain=t.e2ma.net> on multispecies justice and planetary health. But where to from here? I hope we can talk more about the project and what might be done.

Speaker Bio:
Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Discipline of Health,
Leader of the Politics, Governance and Ethics Theme with the Charles Perkins Centre
Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Discipline of Health and leader of the Politics, Governance and Ethics Theme with the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. As an historian of science, medicine and public health, his research spans Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the United States, with particular interests in race, human difference and citizenship, the history of immunology, and the conceptual development of disease ecology and planetary health. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and the Royal Society of NSW, he has received the 2023 John Desmond Bernal Prize, the 2025 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for lifetime achievement in public health history, and was named Australia's top historian in The Australian's 2026 research review.

This week, our conversation will be moderated by Dr Hojjat Soofi<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/rJ-SC81V0PTzLYyY6CzCvUyYp6g?domain=t.e2ma.net>.
When
14 May 2026
12:00–1:00 PM
Where
A27, Dean’s Boardroom/Conference Room
Level 2 (Main Entrance from Fisher Road, immediate left after you enter).
Joining online? Register here: Zoom registration link<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/_xBtC91WPRTM92w2kUZFnUqbyKA?domain=t.e2ma.net>
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Supriya Subramani: supriya.subramani at sydney.edu.au<mailto:supriya.subramani at sydney.edu.au>​.