Our Story

The Southeast Asia (SEA) Bioethics Network was established in 2020-2021 by a group of scholars based in SEA, who successfully obtained the Wellcome Trust Research Development Award to develop the network. Their shared goal is to promote an empirically-informed and practice-oriented approach to bioethics from a SEA perspective, through collaborations with stakeholders in the region and beyond. The network currently focuses on addressing ethical issues related to healthcare for marginalised mobile populations and emerging technologies like genomic medicine, gene- and cell-based therapies, and AI-driven health activities. It is committed to supporting bioethics scholars and researchers in SEA and establishing a research agenda that brings to the forefront unheard voices to enrich current bioethics discourses.