Samia Hurst-Majno is a physician bioethicist, consultant to the Clinical Ethics Council of the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), director of the Institute for Ethics, History, Humanities (IEH2) and the Department of Health and Community Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva. Former vice-president of the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical ethics, vice-chair of the Swiss COVID19 Science Task Force, and former president of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Ethics, she is a member of the Swiss National Science Advice Network, of the Executive Committee of CIOMS, of the Senate of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, and of the Assembly of the ICRC.

Before joining the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda from 2001 to 2003. She was a founding member of the European Clinical Ethics Network and co-organizes the Brocher Summer Academies on the Ethics of Global Population Health with Harvard University.

Very active in public discussions, she works with various media and on various social media on issues related to bioethics.

RESEARCH

Ethical issues in clinical practice,

Health policy ethics, in particular issues related to equity and the protection of vulnerable persons

Ethical issues in personalized medicine

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Articles

• Fitzgerald C, Martin A, Berner D, Hurst SA: Interventions designed to reduce implicit prejudices and implicit stereotypes in real world contexts: a systematic review. BMC Psychology. 2019;7:29
• Hurst SA, Zellweger U, Bosshard G, Bopp M : Medical end-of-life practices in Swiss cultural regions : a death certificate study. BMC Medicine. 2018; 16(1):54
• Tavaglione N, Martin A, Mezger N, Durieux S, François A, Jackson Y, Hurst SA: Fleshing out vulnerability. Bioethics. 2015;29(2):98-107
• Tilburt J, Wynia M, Sheller RD, Thorsteinsdottir B, James K, Egginton JS, Liebow M, Hurst SA, Danis M, Goold SD: Conflicted and Divided: US Physicians' Views on Addressing Health Care Costs. JAMA. 2013:310(4):380-8. ABIM Foundation 2014 Professionalism Article Prize
• Ilic N, Auchlin A, Hadengue A, Wenger A, Hurst SA: Informed consent forms in oncology research: linguistic tools identify recurrent pitfalls. American Journal of Bioethics – Primary research. 2013 ; 4(4):39-54
• Hurst SA., Mauron A.; A Question of Method: the Ethics of Managing Conflicts of Interest. EMBO Reports. 2008, 9(2), pp 119-123 

Books

• Danis M, Fleck L, Forde R, Hurst SA, Slowther AM: Toward Fair Rationing at the Bedside. Oxford University Press. 2014.
• Eyal N, Hurst SA, Norheim O, Wikler D : Health Inequalities - Concept, Measures, Ethics. Oxford University Press. 2014.
• The complete list is available on the University of Geneva’s Open Archive

SELECTED TALKS

• Complicity in clinical ethics consultation. International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation. Vienna. 2019
• Conscientious objection and medical duties in case of suicide assistance requests. International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation. Oxford. 2018
• What is vulnerability ? Keynote. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Bioethics Society. 2017
• Helping medical students develop a deeper understanding of truth-telling. Keynote.  First Chinese University of Hong Kong – Medical Education Conference (CU-MEC) 2017