health in developing nations
Ruth Macklin, professor of bioethics in the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, will speak at three campus events on Wednesday, May 16.
As part of the Bioethics and Public Policy Seminar Series sponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Macklin will discuss "Reproductive Health in Developing Countries" at noon at ISPS,
Macklin will also present a talk titled "Women and AIDS in Developing Countries," 3:30-5 p.m., in the lower level conference room of ISPS as part of a working research group on "Globalization, Gender and Health." All three talks are free and open to the public.
Macklin is the author or editor of ten books, including "Mortal Choices," "Enemies of Patients," "Surrogates and Other Mothers" and, most recently, "Against Relativism." She has published over 180 articles on AIDS, human reproduction, the ethics of human research subjects and health policy in professional and scholarly journals as well as in magazines and newspapers for general audiences.
An elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Macklin is currently president of the International Association of Bioethics, vice president of the Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences, chair of the Ethical Review Committee of the joint United Nations program on AIDS and member of the International Advisory Board on Bioethics of the Pan American Health Association. She also serves on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health. In 1994, she was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
Macklin's current work focuses on international collaborative research, HIV/AIDS and human reproduction.
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