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2024 - 2025

Hope Kent

Portrait of Hope Kent

Research Question

Ethical implications of using predictive risk modelling in the criminal justice system

 

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Exeter

 

 

Rasita Vinay

Portrait of Rasita Vinay

Research Question

The ethics of voice-based conversational agents for people with dementia

 

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich & Core Director for Digital Ethics and Care for Older Adults, School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen

2023 - 2024

Farbod Akhlaghi

Portrait of Farbod Akhlaghi

Research Question

The Ethics of Transformative Experience and Psychotherapy

 

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge & Visiting Research Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin 

 


Matthew L Baum

Portrait of Matthew Baum

Research Question

Neuroethics of lumbar punctures (aka ‘spinal taps’) for psychiatric indications

 

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Resident Physician, Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  

 

Ryan EsseX

Portrait of Ryan Essex

Research Question

The Place of Health in the Justification of Protest

 

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Research Fellow, University of Greenwich

 

 

Eva Fiks

Portrait of Eva Fiks

Research Question

The everyday ethics in sterilization camps in India

 

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, School of Medicine, Keele University

 

 

2022 - 2023

Regina Mueller

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Research Question

Ethical aspects of digitalization in medicine and healthcare, especially health apps.

 

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Philosophy at the University Bremen, Germany

 

 

Maxwell Smith

Maxwell Smith

Research Question

Ethics for Post-Pandemic Public Health

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

 

Assistant Professor and Western Research Chair in Public Health Ethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University in London, Ontario, Canada

 

Merle Weßel

Merle Wessel

Research Question

Intersectionality in Medical and Bioethics – Tackling Diversity, Inequality and Injustice in Medicine and Health Care

Position at the time of visit to Ethox

Postdoctoral Researcher, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

 

 

2019 - 2020 (some visits postponed to 2022)

GIULIA CAVALIERE

Giulia CavaliereResearch Question

Blood and Water: Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Desire to Have Genetically Related Children.

The purpose of my project is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the ethics and politics of the desire to have genetically related children, and to appraise the philosophical, ethical and political implications of using assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to fulfil such a desire. 

Position at time of Ethox visits 

Lecturer in Professional Practice, Values and Ethics, Lancaster University Medical School (2020)

Lecturer in Medical Law and Medical Ethics, King's College London (2022)

 

Sonya de Laat

Sonya de Laat imageResearch Question

Community-based palliative care in refugee camps: Rwandan snapshots

Position at time of Ethox visit in 2022

Global Health Scholar, Academic Advisor, McMaster University

 

 

 

Arianne Shahvisi

Arianne ShahvisiResearch Question

Global Health Inequalities and the NHS

Position at time of Ethox visit in 2022

Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School

 

Daniel Tigard

Daniel TigardResearch Question

What effect do AI and big data systems have on human agency and moral responsibility in healthcare? How can patients, practitioners, and the general public best respond to potential obscurities in responsibility? This project investigates the social and ethical challenges arising with newfound medical technologies, specifically the ways in which emerging systems may be threatening moral responsibility in the delivery of healthcare.

Position at time of Ethox visit 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Human-Technology Centre, RWTH Aachen University

 

 

2018 - 2019

Tereza hendl

Tereza Hendl Research Question

mHealth technologies from a public health perspective - The incorporation of mobile health (mHealth) technologies into 'health consumers’ daily lives is increasingly being promoted as an avenue to strengthening patient autonomy and improving public health outcomes. However, an emphasis on self-management implicit in and reinforced by mHealth technologies raises ethical concerns. The placing of responsibility for health outcomes on the individual warrants critical examination as it fails to account for broader socio-political factors that shape individual and population health.

Position at time of visiting Ethox

Postdoctoral Researcher and Co-Lead on the Project "META - mHealth: Ethical, Legal, Social Aspects in the Technological Age" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

voo teck chuan

TC  Research Question

Healthcare facilities in receiving countries regularly encounter temporary migrant workers whose need for acute or subacute care trigger the prospect of termination of employment and repatriation. In many of these cases, the workers are unlikely to receive adequate treatment if sent back home due to financial and other barriers. In receiving countries where such repatriation depends on the sanction or at least the assessment of medical professionals, how should medical professionals assess such cases and ensure that medical repatriation is conducted in an ethical way?

Position at time of visiting Ethox

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Danielle M. Wenner

 DWennerResearch Question

Justice in the setting of health research priority setting – while much research ethics seeks to identify norms appropriate to the design and conduct of individual clinical trials, the ethics of health research priority-setting is more accurately construed as a question about the norms appropriate for governing the research enterprise as a whole, as health research priority-setting is an exercise with social impacts that stretch well beyond the stakeholders of any given study, and which can only be optimized when considered comprehensively. How ought research priority setting be informed by considerations of justice?

Position at the time of visiting Ethox

Assistant professor of philosophy and associate director of the Center for Ethics & Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

2017 - 2018

Morten Byskov

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Research Question 

The responsible care for carriers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - If AMR control measures excessively restrict the lives and well-being of individual carriers, to what extent can the zero-tolerance policy be relaxed? What reasons are there to relax the existing AMR control measures? What is the acceptable threshold-level of risk of spreading AMR? How can we justify a particular threshold of acceptable risk given the threat that AMR poses to public health?

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Postdoctoral researcher with the philosophy group at the department of Communication, Philosophy, and Technology, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

Mina Fazel

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Research Question 

The ethical barriers to young people accessing mental health services in schools - bringing to the fore the complexity and different/competing rights that parents, children, health services and educators have. For example, do the parents of a competent 14 year old have the right to know that their child is seeing school mental health services?

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

 

Karin Jongsma 

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Research Question 

The influence of tech-companies on the health research agenda

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Post-doctoral Fellow, Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, University Medical Centre, Göttingen, Germany

Tobias Hausermann

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Research Question 

The privacy of openly shared genomic data.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Post-doctoral Researcher, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich

Rachel douglas-Jones

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Research Question 

Mapping capacity building agencies and activities in research ethics across Africa, and building a comparative frame to examine regional and global initiatives.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Associate Professor, IT University, Copenhagen

 

2016 - 2017

Laura Bothwell

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Research Question 

Racial Diversity in Randomized Controlled Trials—History and Ethics

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Post-doctoral Fellow, Health Policy, Law and Ethics, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston

Aisling McMahon

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Research Question 

The framework for the donation of bio-specimens for health related research to biobanks, and how this framework aligns, if at all, with the potential for downstream commercialisation.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Lecturer in Medical Law and Intellectual Property Law, Newcastle Law School, Newcastle

Matthew McCoy

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Research Question 

The ethics of public engagement in health sector priority settings.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania

Kristine Baroe

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Research Question 

The translation between bioethical theory and practice

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Associate Professor and Post-doc, Department of Global Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen

 

2015 - 2016

Christine Lu

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Resource allocation in the genomics era from an ethical and policy perspective

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

 

Gry Wester

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The problem of justice between age groups in the context of questions about priority-setting in health and social care.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Post-doctoral Fellow at Global Health Priorities, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway

 

Spencer Hey

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The development of a new tool for the ethical assessment of risk in clinical trials wtih human subjects

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Post-doctoral Research Fellow at McGill University, Biomedical Ethics Unit, Faculty of Medicine

2014 - 2015

Joanna Rozynska

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Is it possible to determine a priori maximum risk threshold to which competent and healthy subjects may consent?

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Assistant Professor, Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University

Emma Bullock

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The nature and justifability of paternalistic interferences in clinical practice

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Concepts of Health, Department of Philosophy, King's College London

 

 

 

Annette Rid

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Risk-adapted approaches to regulating research

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Society, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King's College London, and Affiliated Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich

Clair Morrissey

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The social basis of self-respect in the clinic: Adopting the 'human point of view' in prenatal genetic testing

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Occidental College, Los Angeles

2013 - 2014

Sabine Salloch

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Stakeholders' expertise in empirical ethics

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Research Fellow, Intitute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University, Bochum

 

Maureen Kelley

Maureen KelleyResearch Question

Aiming Higher: A human rights frame for addressing the health needs of children living without parents

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Bioethics Division, University of Washington School of Medicine

Ignacio Mastroleo

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The ethical analysis of commonly-held principles for conducting research on human beings, focusing on problems in global health research in Latin America.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Postdoctoral researcher, Bioethics Programme, Latin School of Social Sciences

Kristin Voigt

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Conceptual questions around the notion of health inequality that has become prominent in current debates | The use of 'denormalisation' as part of health promotion strategies.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Social Policy, and Department of Philosophy (joint appointment), McGill University, Montreal

2012 - 2013

Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

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Exploitation and the ethics of globalized clinical trials

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Research Fellow, University Research Priority Programs (UFSP Ethik), Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich

Zuzana Deans

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The professional role of bioethicists, specifically in relation to the contributions invididual professionals can make to practice at the level of policy-making

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Teaching Associate and Research Associate, Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Bristol

 

Ralf Jox

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What is the moral authority of nonverbal behaviour of patients without decision-making capacity in relation to advance directives?

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Lecturer, Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, University of Munich

Jessica Wheeler

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An ethical analysis of community-based support for offenders with learning disabilities

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Research Associate, CIDDRG, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

 

  

2011 - 2012

Marie Gaille

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A clinical ethics study on the decision made after prenatal testing in relation with a (possible) genetical cause

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Researcher, Paris Descartes University - Biomedical and Fundamental Science Faculty - CNRS

Ruth Horn

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A comparison between the different models of advance medical decision-making in operation in France and England which aim to preserve the autonomy of adult patients beyond the point at which they have lost the capacity to decide for themselves

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol

Katerina Sideri

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How patents and the current global system of governance (WTO/TRIPS) contribute to global inequalities, and how we ought to address contentious issues concerning access to affordable medicines and technology transfer.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Lecturer at the OUC Greece, and Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Social-Legal Studies, Oxford University.

Neema Sofaer

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What moral obligations are there to ensure that former participants, their communities and countries, have post-trial access (PTA) to the trial intervention, health care and/or information e.g. trial results?  |  What is the legislation, regulations and guidance regarding such PTA?  |  Which changes, if any, should be made to these?

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London

Sridhar Venkatapuram

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Evaluating the place of health in various theories of social justice | The ethics of social determinants of health and health inequalities | Applying the capabilities approach as a non-welfarist approach to economic evaluation of health programmes in rich and poor countries.

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 

 

2010 - 2011

Richard Huxtable

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Medicine and law at the limits of life: Clinical ethics in action

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol

Jonathan Ives

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The theory and methods of empirical bioethics and the ethics and sociology of fatherhood

Position at the time of visiting Ethox 

Lecturer in Behavioural Science, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham