Dr. Cornelius Ewuoso

Cornelius Ewuoso is an African bioethicist whose scholarship advances Afro-communitarian moral philosophy in global health, genomics, and emerging technologies. His work critically engages questions of justice, solidarity, reciprocity, and epistemic justice, contributing to the decolonisation of bioethics and health research. He is widely recognised for integrating African philosophical traditions into contemporary debates in medical ethics and public health policy.

His research addresses vaccine ethics, including measles and influenza vaccination in African contexts, institutional duties in public health, and the moral dimensions of vaccine hesitancy. Ewuoso has also made notable contributions to genomic ethics, particularly on feedback of findings, benefit sharing, consent, and ancient DNA research, shaping discussions on community engagement and distributive justice in African research settings.

Beyond public health and genomics, his scholarship extends to neuroethics, artificial intelligence in healthcare, and the ethical implications of digital environments such as the metaverse. By foregrounding relational autonomy and communal conceptions of humanness, his work offers distinctive normative frameworks that enrich global bioethical discourse and promote context-sensitive policy development.