Despite increasing levels of overall wealth, enormous global inequalities continue to exist

in health measures such as mortality, quality of life and disease and the global burden

of disease is disproportionately large in developing countries. The Ethox Centre has

a major research interest in the ethical issues arising in healthcare and medical research

understood in a global context. The Centre has a particularly strong research interest

in the ethics of collaborative global health research and in understanding the complex

ethical issues arising out of the interplay between globalised research collaborations and

the ways in which such research is manifested locally in developing countries.

The Ethox Centre is currently carrying out the following research projects in global health ethics:

• The Global Health Bioethics Network
• The ethics of collaborative global health research
• Research ethics in emerging infectious disease outbreaks: an international perspective
  
• The concept of 'social value' in research in developing countries
• Ethical challenges in the release and publication of ethnicity-related research results
• Consent in genomic research in Malaria
• Barriers to accessing and using formal antenatal, delivery and postnatal care services in Ghana in the context of a free maternal healthcare policy
  
• The roles of ethics in collaborative global genomic research networks
• Export, storage and future use of human tissues: developing a framework for fair benefit-sharing in international collaborative research
• MalariaGEN
• Strengthening ethical practice in population-based genetics and genomics research: participant views arising from Sickle-cell disease screening activities in East Africa
• Ethics of research from the perspective of developing countries: Pakistan as a case study
• The impact of genetic risks in UK Pakistani families