Public engagement with social and ethical issues related to emerging technologies is a key part of my profession as a bioethicist.
I am available to give interviews on topics related to bioethics, and specifically on topics related to my research: genetics and the future of human reproduction; ethics and law in medicine and sport; clinical research ethics, public health ethics in the pandemic.
Recent talks:
The recording of the ELSI Friday Forum on “Genetic Advantages: when do they count as doping?” can be found here.
https://elsihub.org/video/genetic-advantages-sports-when-do-they-count-doping
Recent blog posts:
the International Public Policy Observatory (published April 6th, 2022)
What We Can Learn From Italy’s COVID-19 Policy Response
For Nature Behavioural and Social Sciences Community Hub (published March 28, 2022)
RADIO COMMENTARY AND EXPERT OPINION
Rai 3
…una piccola lezione in italiano su cos’è la bioetica, secondo me. Puntata de #Maestri del 13.12.21
Poi con #edoardocamurri parliamo di sport, doping, e modificazioni del genoma umano.
Disponibile su RaiPlay:
https://www.raiplay.it/video/2021/12/Maestri-cffe92e6-d072-40fe-a2c9-935620fea6b4.html
BBC Inside Science (Radio)
April 18th, 2019: I spoke to Adam Rutherford about the experiments carried out at Yale University reanimating pigs heads:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00046sj
BBC News Hour Extra (Radio)
Commentary for: “A flickering flame: Is the Olympic ideal dead?” (2016, July 29).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04263n3
World, We’ve Got This Podcast
In this episode of World, We’ve Got This (season 3, episode 7, aired January 28th, 2022), Sara Dahlen, a PhD candidate in Bioethics & Society and Dr Silvia Camporesi, Reader in Bioethics and Health Humanities, discuss an imagined future in which “there will be no humans as we know them”, humanity’s relationship with nature and technology, and explore some of the bioethical questions facing us today.
Sara’s essay, “Notes to No-One”, won the 2021 King’s Biotechnology & Society Essay Contest and imagines a future after an ecological collapse where humanity has almost been destroyed by climate change, wildfires and endocrine disruptions.
You can read Sara’s essay, and find out more about the Biotechnology and Society research group on the King’s website.
You can listen to this episode here:
https://shows.acast.com/worldwegotthis/episodes/in-conversation-about-a-future-without-humans
In this episode of WORLD: we got this, recorded in June 2020, we explore our personal experiences living and working in the UK, Italy and South Africa during this strange time and how bioethics comes into practice.
You can listen to the episode of KCL podcast “World, we got this: Ethics and pandemics” here:
and access the transcript of the conversation here.
Podcast interview with UC Medical Humanities Press April 27th, 2016:
BBC World Service (Radio)
Expert opinion on Dutee Chand’s case. (2015, March 23).
https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/what-makes-a-woman
BBC Have Your Say (Radio)
Expert opinion on Dutee Chand’s case. (2015, March 23).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02m31rq
BBC Radio 4 News (Radio)
Expert opinion on Dutee Chand’s case. (2015, March 23).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mrc53
Other expert commentaries on Semenya’s:
BBC Radio 5, May 1st: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0769g7f
BBC Radio London, May 2nd: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0769g7f?fbclid=IwAR1BVHBoJc9R5TxHMJAZHkXNjLx5caiZYOw3StVnNhck81XJ6tqMuIQ2ajg
TELEVISION COMMENTARY AND EXPERT OPINION
Al Jazeera
I spoke to Imran Khan for Al Jazeera Inside Story on May 2nd, 2020, on the ethics of sport and the case of Caster Semenya : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aw68TNJsCU
BBC Big Questions
I was a panelist for the BBC Big Questions episode “Is it ethical to interfere with the genome?” (2017, June 11).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08vg018/the-big-questions-series-10-episode-20
Global Biotech Summit
Gap Summit (Global Biotech Revolution) in Cambridge UK, April 4-6th, 2016. Here is the full recording of the bioethics panel discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XpQcgh8LFI&app=desktop and here is my interview, where I answer the question: “Which debates do you think will be most important in biotechnology and bioethics by 2050?”
BBC World News
Expert opinion on the case of eugenics victims receiving compensation for sterilization in Virginia. (2015, February 27).
PRINT MEDIA OP-EDs AND COMMENTARY
AEON
Camporesi, S (2020, April 20th) A bioethicist at the heart of the Italian coronavirus crisis asks: why won’t we talk about the trade-offs of the lockdown? https://aeon.co/essays/a-bioethicist-on-the-hidden-costs-of-lockdown-in-italy
The article has been published in Spanish for the Chilean magazine Santiago: http://revistasantiago.cl/pensamiento/no-tenia-que-ser-asi/
Camporesi, S (2017, February 28) Who is a sportswoman? https://aeon.co/essays/sports-culture-binds-us-to-gender-binaries-this-is-unfair
Camporesi, S., & Knuckles, J. A. (2016, July 22). The solution to doping is to extend the blame beyond athletes. https://aeon.co/ideas/the-solution-to-doping-is-to-extend-the-blame-beyond-athletes
The Conversation UK
Camporesi, S. (2016, August 9). Why Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand deserve to compete (and win) at Rio 2016. https://theconversation.com/why-caster-semenya-and-dutee-chand-deserve-to-compete-and-win-at-rio-2016-63727
Camporesi, S. (2015, November 4). The last psychopath: using the brain to root out disorder. https://theconversation.com/the-last-psychopath-using-the-brain-to-root-out-disorder-50137
Camporesi, S., & Marks, L. (2015, October 7). The public must speak up about gene editing – beyond embryo modification. https://theconversation.com/the-public-must-speak-up-about-gene-editing-beyond-embryo-modification-48623
Newsweek
Camporesi, S. (2016, August 10). Why Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand Deserve to Compete at Rio 2016: Do female athletes with high levels of testosterone have an unfair advantage? http://www.newsweek.com/why-caster-semenya-and-dutee-chand-deserve-compete-rio-2016-488958
Open Democracy
Marks, L., Camporesi, S., & Lind, J. (2016, March 18). This is what the public thinks about genome editing. https://www.opendemocracy.net/lara-marks-silvia-camporesi-jonathan-lind/what-public-thinks-about-genome-editing
Marks, L., & Camporesi, S. (2015, October 15). Join the debate around genome editing. https://www.opendemocracy.net/lara-marks-silvia-camporesi/join-debate-around-genome-editing
Somatosphere
Camporesi, S. (2012, July 26). Caster Semenya and athletic excellence: a critique of Olympic sex-testing. http://somatosphere.net/2012/07/caster-semenya-and-athletic-excellence-a-critique-of-olympic-sex-testing.html
I write regularly for the Huffington Post US Blog:
All opinion pieces available here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/silvia-camporesi-206
Camporesi, S. (2016, September 19). Genome Editing, Bioethics, Policy and Politics in the UK and in the US.
Camporesi, S., & Cavaliere, G. (2016, September 15). Shortage Of Organs For Transplantation — Is More Research on Human-Animal Chimeras the Right Approach?
Camporesi, S. (2016, July 29). Clear Skies Overhead for Dutee Chand, But Clouds Loom on the Horizon.
Camporesi, S. (2016, June 18). Bioethics as a Profession: Expertise and Accountability for the Gene Editing Debate.
Camporesi, S. (2015, November 30). CRISPR Goes to Washington: Democracy Ensues? Results From Pilot Public Engagement Project.
Camporesi, S. (2015, November 3). Ethics of Genetic Screening in ‘Tomcat’: What Trade Offs Are We Ready to Make to Live in a World Free From Illness?
IN ITALIANO:
Un paio di articoli in italiano per Pagina 99 datati 10 dicembre 2016 e intitolati “Correggere il DNA materno per eliminare difetti genetici” firmati da Angela Simone e che contengono una mia intervista:
20161210_weekend99_028 & 20161210_weekend99_029
Selected references to my research in mainstream media and professional outlets:
VICE
Work quoted in Vice May 1st, 2019: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxb48/the-court-called-the-caster-semenya-ruling-necessary-discrimination
VOX
May 3rd, 2019
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/5/3/18526723/caster-semenya-800-gender-race-intersex-athletes
CNN
East, S. (2016, August 12). Should a woman’s testosterone level matter in sports?
The Guardian
Kessel, A. (2018, February 18) The unequal battle: privilege, genes, gender and power
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/18/the-unequal-battle-privilege-genes-gender-and-power
Pielke Jr., R. (2016, August 3). Get ready for the coming wave of technologically enhanced athletes.
The Mail and Guardian
Saba, A. (2016, August 25). Has gender verification made women’s athletics into a sordid masquerade?
Los Angeles Daily News
Reid, S. (2016, August 1). Wave of controversy surrounds track star Caster Semenya.
http://www.dailynews.com/2016/08/01/wave-of-controversy-surrounds-track-star-caster-semenya/
International Bar Association
Green, R. (2016, August 22). Suspended hyperandrogenism regulations under the spotlight at Rio Olympics.
https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=4887edb3-28e2-4546-be2f-6e5f14b7e61f
Dr Silvia Camporesi 
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