Research in Bioethics

 

Trent Center faculty engage in bioethics research spanning a wide spectrum of issues, from health care policy and genome ethics to women and reproductive health; from global health, justice and access to health care resources to economics of clinical research; from use of technology, medical decision making, and behavioral economics to access to experimental therapy, conflict of interest and protection of human subjects. They work in various areas including medicine, philosophy, history, law, economics, women's health and global health. These disciplines inform their rigorous examination of critical issues that are constantly evolving with new biotechnology, medical discoveries and changing health care systems.

 

Dan Ariely - behavioral economics, decision making

 

Laura Beskow - ethics and policy issues related to human subjects in large-scale genomic research and translation

 

Allen Buchanan - philosophy, ethical issues concerning access to health care, genome science

 

Doriane Coleman - law, legal issues concerning decision making for children

 

Bob Cook-Deegan - genome ethics, law and policy; genetics and medicine, health and public policy, law and biomedical research policy

 

Lauren Dame - law, genetics, biomedical research and protection of human subjects, healthcare policy, effects of technology on privacy

 

Anne Lyerly - bioethics and health policy regarding women's health, reproductive medicine, and applications of feminist theory

 

Ross McKinney - natural history, prevention and treatment of pediatric HIV disease; conflict of interest, the process of informed consent

 

Mike Merson - HIV prevention in developing countries, global AIDS policy issues

 

Jeff Peppercorn - intersection of clinical care and clinical research in oncology; access to off-protocol therapy

 

Noah Pickus - immigration policy reform, institutional response to ethical crises

 

Philip Rosoff - clinical ethics, medical decision making, philosophy of biology

 

Kathy Rudy - interconnected studies of religion, politics, feminism and medical ethics

 

Kevin Schulman - economic evaluation in clinical research; health services research and policy, medical decision making

 

Anthony So - ownership of knowledge and how it is best harnessed to improve the public's health, including in developing countries

 

Gopal Sreenivasan - philosophy, distributive justice and health, process of informed consent, international bioethics

 

Barbara Turner - ethical issues surrounding research involving prematurely-born infants

Kevin Weinfurt - patient and physician decision making, especially in the conduct of clinical trials

 

Kate Whetten - national economics of HIV and other chronic diseases, substance abuse policies, social costs of disease