Caesar Atuire
Prof. Caesar Atuire joined the University of Ghana in January 2014 as Lecturer. He began his university education in Civil Engineering at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London). He branched off to Philosophy where he obtained a BA (Summa cum laude). In 1994, he earned a Licentia Philosophiae from the Gregorian University (Rome). He obtained a PhD in Philosophy with an Enquiry into Suicide at the Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Rome) in 2005. Prof. Atuire also holds a Master’s degree in Theology and Diplomas in Bioethics and Pedagogical Sciences.
He is a Member of the Scientific Committee of the MEMATIC programme of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. He has lectured extensively in Europe, South America and East Africa on themes relating to anthropology, ethics and intercultural development. Prof Atuire’s areas of research are the sociological, anthropological and ethical implications of multiculturalism and technological innovation, particularly in Africa.
For more info: https://www.afox.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-caesar-atuire
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: Moral Philosophy, Bioethics, Global Health, Mental Health, African Philosophical Traditions, Decolonization. Teaching: Metaphysics, Medieval Philosophy, Existentialism, Aristotle, Philosophy of Life and Death, Philosophy and Literature
COURSES TAUGHT CURRENTLY: Existentialism, Medieval Philosophy, Aristotle, Critical Thinking and Practical Reasoning, Philosophy and Literature.
CURRENT RESEARCH: Anthropological and sociological impact of new internet based technologies and artificial intelligence; Evaluation of the universality of the Human Rights talk.
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
1. Atuire, C.A., and Rutazibwa, O. U. (2021). An African Reading of the Covid-19 pandemic and the stakes of decolonization. In U. K. Karunakara, P. Chatterjee, & A. Miller (Eds.), Human and Social Costs of Covid Response. Global Health Justice Partnership: Yale University, New Haven. Available at: https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/african-reading-covid-19-pandemic-an....
2. Jecker, N. S., & Atuire, C. (2021). Bioethics in Africa: A contextually enlightened analysis of three cases. Developing World Bioethics. 10.1111/dewb.12324.
3. Atuire, Caesar A. (2020). Black Lives Matter and the Removal of Racist Statues: Perspectives of an African. 21: INQUIRIES INTO ART, HISTORY, AND THE VISUAL, #2-2020, 449–467. 10.11588/xxi.2020.2.76234.
4. Atuire, C. A., & Frimpong-Mansoh, Y. A. (2019). Bioethics in Africa: theories and praxis. Wilmington: Vernon Press.
Grants & Funds Won
August 2021 to July 2022: Co-lead PI, Seed funding for Bioethics Lab at the Department of Philosophy and Classics, funded by the University of Bonn. (20,000 Euros)
2. August 2020 to July 2021: PI, Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), Research Development Award, A roadmap co-created by caregivers on navigating the mental healthcare streams in Ghana and their intrinsic challenges: terminology, conceptualizations, and resources. (50, 000 Pounds Sterling)
3. June 2020 to May 2021: Co-PI, UK Research Council, EPSRC, Engaging Young People in the Development of Digital Mental Health Innovation in Africa. (150, 000 Pounds Sterling)
4. February 2020 to August 2021: PI, Wellcome Trust, UK, Small Grant Scheme, Project title: The Normative Gap in African Health Care Practice: The Case for an African-Grounded Curriculum of Clinical Bioethics. (33, 315.00 Pounds Sterling)
3. September 2018 to September 2020: PI, Neurogene Small Grant research project: Frameworks of Attitudes towards Psychosis in Ghana, in collaboration with NeuroGene, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford. (15,329 Pounds Sterling)
4. June 2019 to December 2021: Wellcome Small Grant. Collaborator, PI: Dr. Camillia Kong. Re-Examining the ‘Global’ in Global Mental Health: African Understandings of Mental Disorder and Intellectual Disability. (49,761 Pounds Sterling)
5. 2017- November 2018: CEI, Servizio per gli interventi caritativi a favore dei paesi del terzo mondo, A Youth Centre for Apam. (72,000 Euros)
6. May to June 2016: University of Ghana, ORID, Conference Organizer Grants, Bioethics: African Perspectives. (5000 Cedis).
Others
Member, Ethics Working Group of the World Health Organization's Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A)
Member of the Ethics Committee for the Basic and Applied Sciences of the University of Ghana
Independent Resource Group for Global Health Justice. (https://www.irg-ghj.org/group-members-true). Member
International Neuroethics Society, 2019-2020 (https://www.neuroethicssociety.org/). Member