2026 Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecture
Our annual Quie & Peterson Global Health Lecture honors the work of Dr. Paul G. Quie and Dr. Phillip K. Peterson, striving to continue their legacy of global health leadership and to inspire the next generation of global health leaders.
Drs. Quie and Peterson served on the original steering committee that created the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, and Dr. Peterson served as CGHSR's first director. As infectious disease research scientists, their collective 100-year careers have had an impact on countless trainees, colleagues, and partners across the United States and the globe.
Embedding Solidarity in Global Health: Prioritizing Shared Experiences to Advance Equity
CGHSR welcomes Dr. Caesar Atuire as its 10th annual Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecturer. Dr. Atuire will discuss the importance of recognizing our shared similarities in order to ultimately advance more equitable health care outcomes.
Dr. Atuire is a philosopher and health ethicist from Ghana who is currently the Ethics and Governance Lead for the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is also co-director of Oxford Global Health; he holds an adjunct professorship of philosophy at the University of Ghana; and he is an affiliate Instructor at the University of Washington’s Department of Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Atuire is also the past President of the International Association of Bioethics (2022-2026).
Quie and Peterson Global Health Lecturer
Prof. Caesar Atuire is a philosopher and health ethicist whose work bridges ethics, global health, and moral philosophy. His academic journey, spanning civil engineering, theology, and philosophy, reflects a lifelong commitment to understanding what it means to act well in a complex and interconnected world.
Based at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, Prof. Atuire leads research on bioethics with a focus on solidarity, decolonisation, and justice in global health. He is the Principal Investigator of the Global Health Solidarity Project, a Wellcome Discovery Award exploring the meanings and practices of solidarity across diverse regions, and serves as Co-Principal Investigator on several Wellcome-funded projects addressing ethical challenges in AI, misinformation, and environmental sustainability in health research.
His work has been published in leading journals including The Lancet, BMJ Medical Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and the International Journal for Equity in Health. He is also the co-author of What Is a Person? Untapped Insights from Africa (Oxford University Press, 2024), a cross-cultural philosophical inquiry into moral status and personhood.
Prof. Atuire currently serves as President of the International Association of Bioethics (2024–2026), advises the World Health Organization and Africa CDC, and remains deeply committed to fostering epistemic inclusivity and pluralism in global bioethics.
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