Julian W. März, Dr. iur. Dr. med. et Dr. sc. med.
- Senior Teaching and Research Assistant
Biography
Dr. iur., Dr. med. et Dr. sc. med. Julian W. März has studied law, medicine, and bioethics at the Universities of Zurich, Oxford, Munich, Regensburg, and Passau, and the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) de Paris. He holds a master’s degree in economic law from the IEP de Paris (2016), a Ph.D. in Law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Passau (2020), a Ph.D. in Bioethics (Dr. sc. med.) from the University of Zurich (2023), and a Doctorate in Medicine (Dr. med.) from the University of Regensburg (2023). In addition, he holds the German State Diploma in Medicine (2023) and is licensed as physician in Switzerland. His university studies have been funded by full scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
Before joining the University of Zurich as a research fellow in October 2022, he has worked for the Division of Health Economics at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, where he also wrote his doctoral thesis in medicine. In parallel, he has worked as research affiliate in pharmaceutical law for the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences of the University of Cambridge, and as lecturer in public health law at the IEP de Paris. Furthermore, he has worked as a trainee lawyer for the international law firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Hogan Lovells LLP and as a trainee physician at the General Hospital of Luxembourg.
Julian is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich and an associated researcher at the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), the Competence Center Medicine – Ethics – Law Helvetiae (MERH), and the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Innovative Therapies in Rare Diseases (ITINERARE) of the University of Zurich. In addition, he is lecturing in the fields of biomedical innovation law, pharmaceutical law, and medical ethics at the University of Zurich, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), and the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS). In parallel, he advises the World Health Organization (WHO) on a number of topics in the area of digital and public health ethics. Since March 2023, he has been leading the curriculum development project “Integrating ethics and governance into the design of artificial intelligence technologies for health” of the WHO Digital Health and Innovation (DHI) and Health Ethics & Governance (HEG) Units.
Research Interests
Julian’s main research interests lie in the areas of biomedical innovation law, research ethics, and pharmaceutical pricing, with a particular focus on gene and cell therapies, AI in pharmaceutical R&D, and innovative therapies for rare diseases.
Publications
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Publications
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2025
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Journal Article
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Developing a Medical Education Framework for Migrant and Refugee Mental Health in Switzerland. International Journal of Public Health, 70:1608047.
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Bioethics challenges in times of war. Bioethics, 39(1):3-4.
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2024
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Healthcare providers' advocacy approaches and ethical challenges in delivering healthcare to undocumented migrants: a scoping review. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 27(4):579-606.
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Proportionality and Mexico's pandemic management during the COVID‐19 crisis. Developing World Bioethics, 24(4):302-309.
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Ethical Issues in Breastfeeding and Lactation Interventions: A Scoping Review. Journal of Human Lactation, 40(1):150-163.
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Book Section
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Economic Sanctions Policy, Medical Neutrality and the Human Right to Health. In: Messelken, Daniel; Barbar, Ana Elisa. Challenging Medical Neutrality : Military and Humanitarian Health Ethics. Cham: Springer, 143-153.
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Verhältnismässigkeit – ein Leitprinzip für Public-Health-Ethik und Gesundheitsrecht in Krisenzeiten?. In: Baur, Isabel; Gächter, Thomas; Godenzi, Gunhild; Mausbach, Julian; Michel, Margot; Staudinger-Fürer, Sina. Entwicklungen im Medizinrecht - Vom klassischen Arztrecht zu One Health : Festschrift für Brigitte Tag. Bern: Stämpfli, 727-736.
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2023
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Blacklisting Health Insurance Premium Defaulters: Is Denial of Medical Care Ethically Justifiable?. Health Care Analysis, 31(3-4):156-168.
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‘VaxTax’: a follow-up proposal for a global vaccine pandemic response fund. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(3):160-164.
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2022
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Monkeypox, stigma and public health. The Lancet Regional Health : Europe, 23:100536.
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Monkeypox, bioethics and the LGBTQI+ community. Swiss Medical Weekly, 152(43-44):40003.
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What does the best interests principle of the convention on the rights of the child mean for paediatric healthcare?. European Journal of Pediatrics, 181(11):3805-3816.
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Economic sanctions, healthcare and the right to health. BMJ Global Health, 7(7):e009486.
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Proportionality and evidence-based pandemic management. Swiss Medical Weekly, 152(25-26):w30208.
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The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation: Don't Forget the Trade-Offs!. Public Health Ethics, 15(1):41-50.
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Dissertation
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The Best Interests of the Child Principle and the Practice of Surrogacy in a Globalised World. 2022, University of Zurich, Medizinische Fakultät.
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Scientific Publication in Electronic Form
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A global vaccine tax to expand COVAX’s mandate. BMJ Publishing: Journal of Medical Ethics.
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2021
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Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue?. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 24(4):487-492.
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What makes a parent in surrogacy cases? Reflections on the Fjölnisdóttir et al. v. Iceland decision of the European Court of Human Rights. Medical Law International, 21(3):272-285.
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Challenges Posed by Transnational Commercial Surrogacy: The Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. European Journal of Health Law, 28(3):263-280.
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