Welcome to the official Website of the 2026 Wo rl d Congress of Bioethics JOHANNESBURG • SOUTH AFRICA
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — The Congress Africa Hosting Committee and the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, University of the Witwatersrand, look forward to welcoming you to the 18th World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, 8 to 10 July 2026. The congress format will be hybrid allowing for either virtual or in-person attendance. The Congress Hosting Committee consists of people from several African countries, and will gradually include representatives of
“The theme for the Congress is Comforting and Disturbing Bioethics: responding to invisibility, inequity, harm and injustice.”