The Brocher Summer Academy brings together distinguished professors from different disciplines and countries and highly promising researchers willing to acquire a strong background on a ELSI in ART. It gives the participants a rare opportunity to meet personally and exchange ideas with many established international professors in an intimate and collegiate atmosphere. The sessions take place at the Brocher Centre in Geneva, Switzerland in an amazing and peaceful environment on the shore of the Lake of Geneva.

1. Brocher Summer Academy
on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
(ELSI) in Assisted Reproductive
Technologies (ART)
1 – 5 June 2015
The Brocher Summer Academy brings together distinguished professors
from different disciplines and countries and highly promising researchers
willing to acquire a strong background on a ELSI in ART. It gives the
participants a rare opportunity to meet personally and exchange ideas
with many established international professors in an intimate and
collegiate atmosphere.
The sessions take place at the Brocher Centre in Geneva, Switzerland in
an amazing and peaceful environment on the shore of the Lake of
Geneva.

2. Scientific Committee
Florencia Luna
Director of the Bioethics program at Facultad Latinoamericana de
Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)
Argentina
Mainly Specialized: ELSI in the ART
Guido Pennings
Member of the Task Force on Ethics and Law of the
European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)
Director of the Bioethics Institute Ghent
Belgium
Mainly Specialized: Ethics of ART
Gamal Serour
Director International Islamic Center For Population Studies and
Research, Al Azhar University
Egypt
Mainly Specialized: ART, Ethics, Women’s Sexual and Reproductive
Health and Rights
Basil Tarlatzis
Former Chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction
and Embryology (ESHRE - 1997-1999)
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine at
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece
Mainly Specialized: Reproductive Medicine
Anna Veiga
Former Chairman of the European Society of Human
Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE – 2011-2013)
Director of the Stem Cell Bank at the Centre of
Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona
Spain
Sheryl van der Poel
Director of Department of Reproductive Health and Research,
WHO
Geneva

3. Ruth Macklin
Co-director of National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International
Center Training Program in Research Ethics
Professor of Bioethics, Department of Epidemiology and Population
Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
USA
Mainly Specialized: ELSI in ART
Betina Cunado
Lawyer specialized in Human Rights and Gender
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)
Argentina
Mainly Specialized: Legislation on Health and Gender Issues
Confirmed Speakers
Francoise Baylis
Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University
Canada
Mainly Specialized: Gender Issues and Public Health
Ian Cooke
Chair of the Infertility Research Trust
Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield
UK
Mainly Specialized: Assisted Reproduction in low resource
economies
Susan Golombok
Director, Centre for Family Research at the University of
Cambridge
UK
Mainly Specialized: Parenting and child development in ART
families
Florencia Luna
Director of the Bioethics program at Facultad Latinoamericana de
Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)
Argentina
Mainly Specialized: ELSI in the ART

4. Sabine Michalowski
Professor of Law at the University of Essex,
UK
Mainly Specialized: Health care Law and Human Rights
Edgar Mocanu
Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Medicine at Royal College of
Surgeons,
Ireland
Mainly Specialized: Assisted Reproductive Medicine
Amrita Pande
Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of
Cape Town
South Africa
Mainly Specialized: Cross-border surrogacy, (sociology of)
reproductive labor
Francoise Shenfield
Clinical Lecturer in Infertility and Honorary Lecturer in Medical
Ethics at University College London Medical School
UK
Mainly Specialized: Ethical Legal and Social Aspects of
(in)fertility (ELSI)
Olga Van den Akker
Professor of Health Psychology in the school of Health &
Education at the Middlesex University
UK
Mainly Specialized: Health Psychology, Assisted Reproductive
Technology.

5. The Summer Academy 2015 will address a much controversial topic: ELSI
in assisted Reproductive Technologies.
The impact in social life, the dimension of the infertility problem, the
challenges raised by new developments of ART, Donor related issues,
homoparenting, public policy and legislative regulations on reproduction,
embryo and gamete statue, and economic and cost-effectiveness analysis,
insurance policies implications and regulatory agencies, are all subjects
that will be discuss during the five days of the Academy.
Key experts and Senior Academic will lecture and lead the debate with the
participants.
Target audience
Physicians, Biologists, Scientists, people working in the ART, journalists
and scholars (advanced graduate student in philosophy, political science,
economics and other social science, the biomedical science, health policy
and global health).
Selection Process
The application form is available on our website: www.brocher.ch.
It should be accompanied by a short CV, one writing sample, and a one-
paragraph description of your current research interests.
The Scientific Committee of the Summer Academy will effectuate the
selection of the attendance and will not justify its decision.
Early registration is highly recommended (50 seats)

6. Registration modalities
A registration fee is required from all accepted participants.
It covers daily lectures, course documentation, five nights accommodation
(on the Brocher domain and/or in its surroundings), five lunches and four
dinners.
Registration fee:
• 850 chf: Professionals
or
• 550 chf: Scholars & PhD students
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2015