Sabine Woehlke

Sabine Wöhlke is a Professor of Health Sciences and Ethics at the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Applied Science Hamburg (Germany). She has a background in Cultural Anthropology and Gender Studies and also professional experience as a nurse in the intensive care sector. She has been working on the ethical aspects of organ transplantation for many years and has published numerous articles on this subject. In her dissertation, she examined the complex decision-making process of living organ transplant patients and their families in Germany. Her dissertation: “Donated Organs? Ethical and Cultural Challenges in Familial Living Organ Donation” provides ethical and medical-anthropological insights into this complex decision-making practice. She is also particularly interested in the cultural aspects behind the ethical issues, such as how the topic is represented in the media, as well as questions of age or ideas of the good life in organ transplantation. Sabine Wöhlke has been an ELPAT member since 2011 and worked in the working group on public issues until then. She organized in the last years together with the WG a European survey on attitudes towards organ donation among students  International Student Survey – ISSATO.

Sabine Wöhlke is Chair of the Ethics Committee of HAW Hamburg and Deputy Chair of the Ethics Committee for Professions in Nursing in Lower Saxony.