Andoh Cletus Tandoh
University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
Biography
Andoh Cletus tandoh is a bioethicist and philosopher, lecturing Applied Ethics, Bioethics and other specialties in Philosophy at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon, and founding president of the Cameroon Society for the Advancement of Bioethics. His primary research interest is on the ethical challenges of scientific research with human beings and he has published several articles around this theme within the context of Africa. In 2017, he organized the international African conference on: Human Genome Editing. Science, Ethics and Policy, Yaounde, Cameroon. And in June, 8-10, 2020: Genome Editing, Human Genetic Disorders and Knowledge Development in Sub-Saharan Africa,, Yaounde, Cameroon. He was a visiting scholar at the Europaische Akademie, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany between 2007-2008, where he worked on his research project entitled “The Ethical Dimensions of Technological Progress: An African Perspective”. He was also the Global Bioethics Education Initiative Scholar in 2011, the Centre for Bioethics and Human Dignity (USA). He serves as an Expert in the UNESCO Ethics Expert Panel of the Human Varium Project and its Bioethics Working Group. From 2018-2019, he was guest scientist at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Gottingen, Germany, where he worked on the topic “Human Genome Editing: Possibilities and Challenges Related to Healthcare in Africa”.