Katherine Littler

Katherine Littler is the co-head of the Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, where she works to integrate ethics into global health decision-making and strengthen ethics capacity worldwide. Her work addresses the ethical governance of emerging technologies, clinical trial design—particularly human challenge studies—and gaps in ethical oversight in global health and,climate change, health and ethics. Before joining WHO in 2018, she co-led the Global Policy Team at the Wellcome Trust, providing guidance on regulatory, governance, and ethical issues related to research ethics, epidemic preparedness, and emerging technologies. She has been actively involved in international partnerships and has served on various oversight bodies, including the PHE Ebola Governance Group, the IDDO Ebola Platform Steering Committee, and the H3Africa Ethics and Regulatory Working Group, as well as chairing the GLOPID-R data sharing working group