Diego S. Silva is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics at Sydney Health Ethics and the University of Sydney School of Public Health. His research centres on public health ethics, particularly the application of political theory in the context of infectious diseases and health security, e.g., tuberculosis, COVID-19, antimicrobial resistance, etc. Diego adopts a mixed methods approach to his work, including the use of qualitative methods and conceptual analysis.

He is a Member and the past Chair of the Public Health Ethics Consultative Group at the Public Health Agency of Canada and works with the World Health Organization on various public health ethics topics on an ad hoc basis. Diego has a BA and MA in philosophy and a PhD in public health from the University of Toronto (Canada) and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow in Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine at the Hannover Medical School (Germany).