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The Ethox Centre
The Ethox Centre aims to improve ethical standards in healthcare practice and medical research. It does this through research, education, and ethics support. It aims in all its activities to be close to practice.
The Ethox Centre brings together a multidisciplinary research group of clinicians, anthropologists, lawyers, philosophers and sociologists. Ethox collaborates closely with researchers in the University of Oxford, other universities and with the health services. Within the University of Oxford, there is particularly close collaboration with public health, primary care, medical sciences, and a wide range of clinicians, epidemiologists, philosophers, social scientists and lawyers.
Ethics in Collaborative Global Health Research
The Ethox Centre and the Wellcome-KEMRI Unit in Kilifi, Kenya have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Enhancement Award on the ethics of collaborative global health research.
The Collaborative Global Health Research Ethics Network will build ethics expertise and capacity both in the United Kingdom and in developing countries - with a particular emphasis on building capacity at the Wellcome Major Overseas Programme and MalariaGEN partner sites.
The research activities of the network will focus on four themes: community engagement; global ethics governance; the ethics of research collaboration; and, the roles and responsibilities of research actors.
The Award will also fund: DPhil Studentships; the development of on-line resources; and a range of training activities. It will also act as a focus for the encouragement of funding applications and research initiatives in developing country sites. The award complements Ethox's role in MalariaGEN http://malariaGEN.net . For more information on this initiative contact Professor Michael Parker or Dr Susan Bull at Ethox on admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk, or Dr Sassy Molyneux in Kilifi. More information about the Network.
News and Events
6th July 2009
Workshop: The Genethics Club
A national clinical ethics forum for health professionals and others to discuss diffficult ethical issues encountered in genetic medicine.
Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Hampton House, Cotham Hill, Bristol, BS6 6JU
If you would like to attend email michael.parker@ethox.ox.ac.uk
Workshop : The Genethics Club
A national ethics forum for health professionals and others to discuss difficult ethical issues encountered in genetic medicine.
London (venue to be announced)
For more information contact: michael.parker@ethox.ox.ac.uk
New Report: Treatment Decision-Making in Anorexia Nervosa
Jacinta Tan, Anne Stewart and Tony Hope
The report can be downloaded from http://www.psychiatricethics.org.uk/ANwebreport/
UK residents can order a hardcopy by sending an A4 self-addessed envelope with 66p stamps to the Ethox Centre
