Ethics Forum-Hosted by the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics

October 6, 2011 at 11:58 am Shuchita Madan Leave a comment

The Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics is hosting the Ethics Forum organized by Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler, Director of Health Care Ethics. The forum takes place on Wednesday October 12 in the Dean’s Conference room 434B, located in Robinson Hall B from 12pm to 1pm.
Sean Philpott Director of Research Ethics for the Bioethics Program of Union Graduate College and the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in Schenectady, NY as well as Chair of the EPA’s Human Studies Review Board, joins us for the second Ethics Forum with his talk titled “Gonorrhea, Guatemala, and Gung Ho Researchers: The Scandalous History of Ethics in Research”.
Dr. Philpott develops and teaches courses in research ethics and also coordinates Union Graduate College’s Fogarty-funded Advanced Certificate Program in Research Ethics for Central and Eastern Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Health Microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, and a Master’s of Science in Bioethics from Union Graduate College. Prior to joining the Union Graduate College faculty full-time, Dr. Philpott was Science and Ethics Officer at PATH, an international nonprofit organization that develops, tests and distributes new technologies designed to address global health problems.
For more information contact Caryn Sever at csever@gmu.edu