Carla Saenz

Carla Saenz

Carla Saenz is responsible for the Regional Program on Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which serves as WHO’s Regional Office for the Americas. An elected fellow of the Hastings Center, she was responsible for the development of the Organization’s ethics guidance for zika and COVID-19, including Catalyzing Ethical Research in Emergencies. Ethics Guidance, Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Pending Agenda. Carla serves on the board of the International Association of Bioethics and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research. She is a native from Peru and holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining PAHO, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Bioethics at Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in the faculty in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.