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12‘A commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’: a conceptual framework for equality of opportunity in Patient and Public Involvement in researchResearch Ethics 20 (2): 288-303. 2024.Many research institutions and funders have recently stated their commitment to actively support and promote ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ (EDI) in various aspects of health research including Patient and Public Involvement (PPI). However, translating this commitment into specific research projects presents significant challenges that existing approaches, practical guidelines and initiatives have not adequately addressed. In this paper, we explore how the lack of clear justifications for t…Read more
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34Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: unresolved questions and future directionsJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (7): 522-525. 2021.Population-level biomedical research offers new opportunities to improve population health, but also raises new challenges to traditional systems of research governance and ethical oversight. Partly in response to these challenges, various models of public involvement in research are being introduced. Yet, the ways in which public involvement should meet governance challenges are not well understood. We conducted a qualitative study with 36 experts and stakeholders using the World Café method to…Read more
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4Children with medical complexities: their distinct vulnerability in health systems’ Covid-19 response and their claims of justice in the recovery phaseMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 26 (1): 13-20. 2023.In this paper, we discuss the lack of consideration given to children in the COVID-19 health systems policy response to the pandemic. We do this by focusing on the case of children with complex medical needs. We argue that, in broad terms, health systems policies that were implemented during the pandemic failed adequately to meet our obligations to both children generally and those with complex medical needs by failing to consider those needs and so to give them fair protection against harm and …Read more
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18Why research ethics should add retrospective reviewBMC Medical Ethics 20 (1): 1-8. 2019.Research ethics is an integral part of research, especially that involving human subjects. However, concerns have been expressed that research ethics has come to be seen as a procedural concern focused on a few well-established ethical issues that researchers need to address to obtain ethical approval to begin their research. While such prospective review of research is important, we argue that it is not sufficient to address all aspects of research ethics. We propose retrospective review as an …Read more
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22Co-Production: An Ethical Model for Mental Health Research?American Journal of Bioethics 19 (8): 49-51. 2019.In this commentary we argue for the value of involving people with a diagnosis of mental health disorders and/or their caregivers as co-researchers in mental health research. We claim that co-produ...
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1The purpose of this paper is to propose an alternative account by which the ethical threshold of acceptable risk in paediatric research can be assessed. Three popular interpretations of the minimal risk threshold and the problems they raise when applied in the research context are presented. First, the “risks of daily life” standard and the “routine examinations” standard are addressed. It is argued here that neither of them can provide a satisfactory morally justified framework within which ris…Read more
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Reconstructing communities in cluster trials?Trials 17 (166): 1-11. 2016.BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in the ethics of cluster trials, but no literature on the uncertainties in defining communities in relation to the scientific notion of the cluster in collaborative biomedical research. METHODS: The views of participants in a community-based cluster randomised trial (CRT) in Mumbai, India, were solicited regarding their understanding and views on community. We conducted two focus group discussions with local residents and 20 semi-structured interviews with d…Read more
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76The 'Standard of Care' Debate and Global Justice in ResearchResearch Ethics 7 (1): 5-12. 2011.In this essay the ethical issues related to the ‘standard of care’ are discussed together with the implications for the treatment of the control group in transnational clinical trials. It is argued that the human right to health and the duty of justice formulate the moral basis on which this case should be debated
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28Informed consent in cluster randomised trials: new and common ethical challengesJournal of Medical Ethics 44 (2): 114-120. 2018.Cluster randomised trials are an increasingly important methodological tool in health research but they present challenges to the informed consent requirement. In the relatively limited literature on the ethics of cluster research there is not much clarity about the reasons for which seeking informed consent in cluster randomised trials may be morally challenging. In this paper, I distinguish between the cases where informed consent in cluster trials may be problematic due to the distinct featur…Read more
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32Evidence of Efficacy and Human Right to HealthAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (6): 35-37. 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 6, Page 35-37, June 2012
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34Manipulation of information in medical research: Can it be morally justified?Research Ethics 8 (1): 9-23. 2012.The aim of this article is to examine whether informational manipulation, used intentionally by the researcher to increase recruitment in the research study, can be morally acceptable. We argue that this question is better answered by following a non-normative account, according to which the ethical justifiability of informational manipulation should not be relevant to its definition. The most appropriate criterion by which informational manipulation should be considered as morally acceptable or…Read more
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University of OxfordResearcher
Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
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Medical Research Ethics |
Psychiatric Ethics |
Beneficence in Medical Ethics |
Confidentiality in Medicine |
Informed Consent in Medicine |
Malpractice |