Prof. Akira Akabayashi

Akira Akabayashi, MD, PhD, is Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan, and Adjunct Professor of Medical Ethics at the Division of Medical Ethics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA. His research interests span cross-cultural bioethics, global bioethics, medical/clinical ethics such as informed consent and organ transplantation, public health ethics, research ethics, and bioethics policy-making. He has published more than 180 articles in English. He is the sole author of Bioethics Across the Globe (2020, Springer) and edited The Future of Bioethics (2014, Oxford University Press). He was a former member of the board of directors of the International Association of Bioethics. He was honored as a Fellow of The Hastings Center (USA) in 2008. He is currently an editorial board member of Journal of Medical Ethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, BMC Medical Ethics, Asian Bioethics Review, and BioPsychoSocial Medicine.