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Dafna Feinholz

Dafna Feinholz

Dafna Feinholz has a PhD in Research Psychology (UIA Mexico) and a Master in Bioethics (Universidad Complutense, Spain). Was the Head of the Reproductive Epidemiology Department at the Mexican National Institute of Perinatology, and the Director for Research and Planning of the Women and Health Program (Ministry of Health Mexico). She successively occupied the posts of Academic Coordinator of the National Commission of Human Genome at the Ministry of Health and Executive Director of the National Commission of Bioethics.

She drafted the first national guidelines for Research Ethics Committees and Clinical Bioethics Committees and promoted the law that established both types of committees.

She was Mexico´s representative at the meetings of the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee to discuss UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.

Since September 2009, Dafna Feinholz is the Chief of the Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section within UNESCO. In this capacity, she leads different activities aiming at reinforcing capacities of Member States to manage bioethical challenges and to identify the ethical, legal and social implications of science and technology. She has overseen the process of the elaboration of the Recommendation on Ethics of AI and the recently adopted Recommendation on Ethics of Neurotechnology.

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In person
7 July 2026
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11:00 - 11:30
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
PST - Los Angeles
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Ethics of youth mental health in the digital AI age

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