Carla Saenz is responsible for the Regional Program on Bioethics of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and PAHO’s ethics review committee, which reviews research conducted with PAHO’s involvement in the region. An elected fellow of the Hastings Center, Carla has authored numerous publications on different areas of bioethics, coedited the book Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe, and contributed to several ethics guidance documents. She has been responsible for the development of PAHO’s zika ethics guidance and PAHO’s ethics guidance for COVID-19, including Catalyzing Ethical Research in Emergencies. Ethics Guidance, Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Pending Agenda. She serves on the board of the International Association of Bioethics and the Steering Committee of the Global Forum on BIoethics in Research. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and, before joining PAHO, she was at the Department of Bioethics at Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in the faculty in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.