Thalia Arawi ([email protected])

Prof. Thalia (Talia) Arawi, (BA, Sociology, MA, Political and Moral Philosophy) PhDs (Philosophy and Bioethics) is Professor of Bioethics and Co-Founder and CEO of T2P (Theory to Practice: Healthcare Ethics Training and Consultancy, regional center located in Beirut-Lebanon. She founded the Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program (SHBPP) at the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center where she also established the first Bed-Side Clinical Ethics Consultation Service in the Arab Region. She was Director of the program from inception to 2023. The SHBPP is the first and only Regional Bioethics and Professionalism Program in the Arab Region and was announced as the first WHO Collaborating Center for Ethics in the Arab Region.

Prof. Arawi is the first Arab to specialize in Bioethics and worked with the UNESCO and the WHO and WHO-EMOR on several projects. She is also a certified IHL trainer. She is also Clinical Bioethicist, a Clinical Ethics Consultant and Certified Healthcare Mediator.

Additionally, she is the bioethics advisor at the Health Impact Fund, member of the Genetic Discrimination Observatory (Canada), one of the founding members of Compassionate Use Advisory Committee (CompAC) with Professor Arthur Caplan, a senior fellow at the ge2p2 Global (which advances ethical and scientific rigor in research and evidence generation — among other issues), a member of the Global Forum for Research Ethics and Integrity (GFREI) and a member of the ERIP CoARA Working Groups (Ethics and Research Integrity Policy in Responsible Research Assessment for Data and Artificial Intelligence which builds expertise to address the transformative cross-disciplinary impact of data and AI on research culture). She also serves as member of the IPDC CODATA and was recently appointed as member of the HGP2-ELSI working group. She is also the first Arab member to be appointed on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics, first elected Chair of the BiNWIAR (A network to enhance the well-being of women’s health in the Arab World). She is also member of the American Society of Bioethics and is a member of the Canadian Society of Bioethics, the Provincial Health Ethics Network and the UK Clinical Ethics Network, to mention but a few.

Prof. Arawi is also the first Arab consultant at the Center for Conflict Resolution in Healthcare LLC, Memphis TN, a consultant at the Health Impact Fund (USA and Canada) and member of WHO Ethics Working Groups and was appointed as Liaison Officer and Bioethics Focal Point to the Prime Minister.

She published the first of its kind Bioethics Dictionary in Arabic with Dr. Ruhi Ballbaki (dar al Ilm lil malayin publishers, 2018) and recently published a book, Towards a Post Flexnerian Revolution: Graduating the Virtuous Physician, AUB Press, 2022. Her third book, 77 Days with Rumi (Dar Nelson) was released this November (2023). She has participated in a multitude of national, regional and international conferences and has several publications on bioethics. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of clinical ethics, biomedical ethics, Islamic bioethics, philosophy of medicine, humanitarian medicine, ethics and refugees, access to healthcare, bioethics in conflict zones, ethics and mental health and medical education.