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Michael Parker
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Recent Publications
- Boddington Paula and Parker Michael (2008) Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: a Commentaty on the Recent HFEA Decision Clinical Ethics, 3:145-148.
- Brown Lindsey, Dixon-Woods Mary, and Parker Michael (2008) Whose Interest? UK Newspaper Reporting of Use of Medical Records for Research Journal of Health Services Research, 13(3):140-145.
- Hallowell Nina, Cooke Sarah, Crawford Gill, Parker Michael, and Lucassen Anneke (2008) Ethics and Research Governance: the Views of Researchers, Health Professionals and Other Stakeholders Clinical Ethics, 3:85-90.
- April Carolyn and Parker Michael (2007) End of Life Decision-Making in Neonatal Care Journal of Medical Ethics, 33:126-127.
- Boulton Mary and Parker Michael (2007) Informed Consent in a Changing Environment Social Science and Medicine, 65:2187-2198.
| Contact address | The Ethox Centre Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care University of Oxford Badenoch Building Old Road Campus Headington Oxford OX3 7LF |
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| College | St Cross College |
Michael Parker
Michael Parker is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford. His main research interest is in the ethical and social dimensions of collaborative global health research. He leads the ethics programmes of the Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN) www.malariagen.net which carries out genomic research into severe malaria in childhood at 24 sites in 21 countries (funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health as part of the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative). He also leads the ethics programme of the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health and is the Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Global Health Research Ethics Network (funded by a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Enhancement Award). Michael's other research activities include: the use of medical records for research (funded by the Medical Research Council); ethics in cardiovascular genomics (funded by the European Commission); and the governance of genetic databases (funded by the Wellcome Trust).
Since 2001, Michael has co-ordinated the Genethics Club www.genethicsclub.org a national ethics forum for health professionals and genetics laboratory staff in the United Kingdom to discuss the ethical issues arising in their day-to-day practice and to share good practice. This provides the background to Michael's other main research interest which is in the ethical aspects of the clinical use of genetics.
Michael is on a number of committees and working parties. He is a member of the Data Access Committee of the Welcome Trust Case-Control Consortium, the Ethics in Practice Committee of the Royal College of Physicians, the Department of Health's Committee for the Ethical Aspects of Pandemic Influenza, and the Advisory Board of DECIPHER. He has previously been a member of a number of national and international committees and working parties including: Lord Warner’s Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Research Ethics, the Ministerial Task Force on the Summary Care Record, the Royal College of Physicians Working Party on Clinical Ethics Committees, the Steering Committee of the UK Clinical Ethics Network, and the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics.
