Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc of Ateneo, Dr. Rogelio Bayod of Cor Jesu College, and Gerry Arambala of La Salle University in Ozamiz, three active members of the Social Ethics Society, will be joining the 2nd International Public Health Conference hosted by the American University of Sovereign Nations in Arizona, USA, April 9, 2020 (9PM Philippine time). Dr. Maboloc will present a paper on pandemics and cognitive disability,
Dr. Bayod will analyze the relation between distributive and recognitive
justice, and Mr. Arambala will tackle
Ozamiz politics, all under the purview of the Covid-19 global crisis. The event gathers ethics
professors and public health experts around the world to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic. The first segment of the virtual conference had 20 presentations and 50 partipants worldwide. Dr. Darryl Macer, President of AUSN, is the organizer.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...