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Reverend Peter I. Osuji is a Spiritan and a full-time Duquesne University Center for Global Health Ethics faculty member. He studied theology and religious knowledge at the Missionary Institute in London, England (Affiliate of Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven) and obtained an STB and M.A., respectively, in 1989. The following year, he traveled to Ethiopia for nine years as a Missionary and worked as a school principal, a community development agent, and as an evangelizer. He was appointed back to Nigeria, where served as the Director of and formator at the Spiritan Postulancy Akabo and in the Regional Administration of his order.  He earned his M.A. in Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in 2008, while working as a campus minister at Duquesne University Spiritan Campus Ministry.  He obtained his Ph.D. in Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in 2013 and, later that year, was appointed a faculty member at Duquesne. His research areas include global bioethics, ethics of care, African bioethics.  He also teaches undergraduate healthcare ethics courses in both the theology and philosophy departments. 

Education

Ph.D., Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2013.
M.A., HealthCare Ethics, Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2008.
M.A., Religious Studies, Missionary Institute London, England, 1989. (Affiliate of Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven)
S.T.B. Systematic Theology, Missionary Institute London, England, 1989. (Affiliate of Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven)
B.S. Zoology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria, 1985.

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Publications

Osuji, Peter I, PhD. "Racial Disparities in Healthcare as a Challenge to the Beatitudes in Reinventing the Future for Humanity." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology  Vol. 33 (2021) 25-44.

Osuji, Peter I, PhD. "Toward a Healthy Planet: African Traditional Environmental Ethics as a Panacea for the Niger Delta Ecological Problem."  Toward a Healthy Planet. Editor Gerald Magill. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2021

Osuji, Peter I, Ph.D. and Barnadette B. Paolo, Esq. J.D., "Towards a Sustainable and Ethical E-Waste Management in West Africa: Agbogbloshie, Ghana." In The Global Sustainability Challenge. Edited by Prof. Gerald Magill & James Benedict. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 

Osuji, Peter I, Ph.D. "A study of Refusal of Medical Treatment in Communal Culture in the Context of Igbo (African) Traditional Medicine in Imo State, Nigeria."  Philectics: Benin Journal of Philosophy vol 3, No. 2   2019. 

Osuji, Peter I. and Chike Anyigbo. 2019. "Eco-Ethical Challenges of The Lake Chad Basin Water Crisis."  In Cascading Challenges in the Global Water Crisis, edited by Gerard Magill and James Benedict, 159-180. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Osuji, Peter I, PhD. and Evaristus C. Obi, Ph.D. "Establishment of Comprehensive Primary Health Care as a Critical Function of South-South Cooperation to Enable Member Countries to Deal with Fundamental Health Issues and Health Disasters."  Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine (EBEM): An International Journal  Vol. 9, 2018: 77-97.

Osuji, Peter I, PhD. Laudato Si and Traditional African Environmental Ethics." In, Gerard Magill and Jordan Potter, Integral Ecology: Protecting Our Common Home. ( Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), Chapter Eight, 184-208.  

Osuji, Peter I. "Relational Autonomy in Informed Consent (RAIC) As an Ethics of Care Approach to the Concept of Informed Consent."  Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, (2017) 1-11.

Osuji, Peter I. "Professionalism in Healthcare: The Professionalism of the Healthcare Personnel in the Fight Against the Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone."  Philectics: Journal of Philosophy [University of Benin]  Vol. 1 No.1, 11-22. 

Osuji, Peter I. "Justifying Condom Use to Ameliorate HIV/AIDS Infection between Spouses: Revisiting the Traditional Principle of Double Effect." Nnamdi Azikiwe Journal of Philosophy vol. 8, no. 1 (2016): 1-13. 

Osuji, Peter I. "Ethical Issues in the Use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Creating a Human Leukocyte Antigen Matching Donor Child for Treating a Sibling Suffering from Fanconi Anemia."  International Journal of Philosophy & Public Affairs  Vol 4 (Dec 2016): 66-85.

Peter I. Osuji, "A Comparative Analysis of the Concepts of Autonomy and Informed Medical Consent in Jewish and African Medical Ethics." SWEM Journal of Religion and Philosophy vol. 6 no. 1 (Dec. 2016): 31 - 44.

Peter I. Osuji, "An Examination of the Protection of Human Subjects in Biomedical Research in Africa in Light of Kantian Principles." SWEM Journal of Religion and Philosophy vol. 6 no. 1 (Dec. 2016): 1 - 21.

Peter Osuji, "Tortoise and Alia: Beyond a Nostalgia for Traditional Moral Education Method of the Igbo People of Nigeria" Medicine and Law Journal, Volume 34 No. 2 (June 2015) pages 229-250.

Peter I. Osuji, "Confidentiality" Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, [e-copy] edited by Dr. Henk A.M.J. ten Have, (Springer, 2015) 

Peter I. Osuji, "African Traditional Medicine: Autonomy and Informed Consent." Vol. 3. Springer, 2014.

Peter I. Osuji. "Informed Consent in Western (USA) Medicine and in African (Igbo) Traditional Medicine (a Comparison)" Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology vol 24, (2012): 129-161.

Dr. Osuji was awarded the  Alphons Loogman C.S.Sp., Faculty Research Grant in African Studies for his project Informed Refusal of Treatment in African (Igbo) Traditional Medicine in Imo State, Nigeria Rev (2015).