Tania Manríquez Roa
- PhD Student
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Tania Manríquez Roa is a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics (IBME), specialising in contemporary challenges in global health and research ethics. She successfully defended her PhD in Bioethics at the University of Zurich, and she holds an MA in Global Ethics from King’s College London, and a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Chile. Manríquez Roa also currently serves as the Academic Coordinator of the Forum for Global Health Ethics and the Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Medical Humanities, both based at IBME.
During her doctoral studies, she was selected as a member of the Excellence Programme for PhD Students at the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich. Manríquez Roa has received prestigious scholarships from the University of Zurich (Switzerland), the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (Chile), and the University of Chile, where she was one of five women awarded for achieving the highest entrance scores from a pool of 3,842 students.
In addition to her academic work, Manríquez Roa has extensive experience as an international policy consultant, having contributed to projects for the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the European Commission, the World Wildlife Fund, the Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), the Human Rights Centre at the University of Chile, and the Department of Social Studies at the Catholic University of Chile. Her fieldwork has taken her to Chile, Mexico, Mozambique, and Switzerland.