A Question and Answer Session: Minority Participation in Research and Advance Directives
Session Facilitator: Dr. Catherine Myser
Director of Ethics, Social Medicine, and Global Health Programs
Florida Atlantic University
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 - 1:00 – 2:00
Royal Victoria Hospital – M9.29
OBJECTIVES:
~ Discuss cultural barriers to minority participation in research
~ Explore differences in minority participation in research
~ Discuss ethical issues that arise in the use of advance directives in the US
Catherine Myser, Ph.D., is Director of Ethics, Social Medicine, and Global Health at Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine. She is dual trained in Bioethics and Medical Anthropology, and has 25 years’ experience doing research, education, and service in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. She has received three Fulbright scholarships (Sweden & Turkey) and has collaborated on a Gates global health grant (UCSF). She has served as International Bioethics Consultant to Physicians for Human Rights and done global health and bioethics capacity building and program development across six health professional schools in Tanzania (Muhimbili U, 2009). Currently, she serves as Associate Editor of Global Bioethics for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and Guest Editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, to create upcoming special issues on “Global Health and Bioethics” and “Corruption in Global Health Research.” She most recently published Bioethics Around the Globe (Oxford University Press, 2011), and a chapter on “Global Bioethics” in The Encyclopedia of Bioethics (forthcoming 2013).
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