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Abdallah Daar
July 29, 2008
Dr. Abdallah Daar is professor
of public health sciences and of surgery at the University of
Toronto. He is also senior scientist and co-director of the McLaughlin-Rotman
Centre Program on Life Sciences and Global Health, University
Health Network, and Director of Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin
Centre for Molecular Medicine. His current research interests
include the exploration of how genomics and other biotechnologies
can be used effectively to ameliorate global health inequities.
Dr. Daar attended medical school in London and conducted postgraduate
training at Oxford before helping to start two medical schools
in the Middle East. He was the foundation Chair of Surgery in
Oman for a decade before moving to the University of Toronto
in 2001.
He has co-authored five books and has published hundreds of articles
in immunology, immunogenetics, organ transplantation, surgery,
and bioethics. He works in various advisory or consulting capacities
with the UN, the World Health Organization and UNESCO, and is
a member of the African Union High Level Panel on Modern Biotechnology.
He is also a member of the Ethics Committee of the Human Genome
Organization.
Honored worldwide for his work, he was awarded the Anthony Miller
Prize for Research Excellence at the University of Toronto in
2005. Most notably for him and for Chautauqua, Dr. Daar was honored
with the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics of Science, the cash
prize for which he donated to Chautauqua as the first gift for
the hoped-for Muslim House here at Chautauqua. |
