Julian Sheather World Health OrganizationUnited Kingdom

Dr Julian Sheather (PhD FRSA) is an ethics consultant. He is currently working with the World Health Organization’s Health Ethics and Governance Unit on a variety of topics in the ethics of health and climate change. He is a long-standing ethics adviser to Médecins Sans Frontières and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. His particular interests lie in health and human rights, medical ethics in times of conflict, humanitarian ethics, public health ethics and mental health and mental capacity. He is the author of Is Medicine Still Good For Us (Thames & Hudson) and writes widely on issues in ethics and health and is a co-author of Medical Ethics Today, the BMA\'s handbook on medical ethics and medical law, Assessment of Mental Capacity (with the Law Society) and is a regular contributor to the British Medical Journal and The Journal of Medical Ethics. He sits on the British Medical Journal’s ethics committee, and was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ working group on ethical aspects of research in global health emergencies.