Peter Singer elected as associate fellow in TWAS

The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) has announced the election of 50 new members. The election took place at the Academy's 20th General Meeting and 11th General Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, on Tuesday, 20 October 2009. Peter Singer was elected as an associate fellow and will be inducted at the Academy's 21st General Meeting next year. One of the world’s leading bioethicists and global health scholars, Singer has pioneered policy and ethical approaches to the application of life sciences to global health, exploring the range of forces that influence how technologies move successfully from 'lab to village'. A Foreign Associate of the US Institute of Medicine, Fellow of Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Health Science, he has won the Michael Smith Prize, the Dales Award of the University of Toronto and the Award for Excellence of Yale University School of Public Health.