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Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.

Dr. Ruth Macklin

Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health

Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Faculty Scholar in Biomedical Ethics

 

Professional Interests

Interests: Research involving human subjects, multinational research, ethics in reproductive health, ethical aspects of research and treatment of HIV/AIDS, human rights.

Dr. Macklin is an adviser to the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, and a member of the Board of Directors of  the International Association of Bioethics.

She is co-director of an NIH Fogarty International Center training program in research ethics. For a description of the program, click here: https://epi.aecom.yu.edu/web/research_details.aspx?id=1259

 

Selected Publications

Current  publications 2012

Ethics in Global Health:  Research, Policy and Practice.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Ethics in HIV Prevention Research: Clarifying the Complexities. The American Journal of Bioethics 12(6): 31–34, 2012.

Ethical Challenges in HIV Microbicide Research:  What Protections Do Women Need? IJFAB (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), 4:2 (2011).

Ruth Macklin and Ethan Cowan.  Given Financial Constraints, It Would Be Unethical To Divert Antiretroviral Drugs From Treatment To Prevention.  Health Affairs, 31:7 (2012): 1-7.

Ethan Cowan and Ruth Macklin.  Unconsented HIV Testing in Cases of Occupational Exposure: Ethics, Law & Policy. Academic Emergency Medicine (in press).

A Global Ethics Approach to Vulnerability.  IJFAB (International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), in press.

Respect for Cultural Diversity and Pluralism.  In: Henk A.M.J. ten Have and Bert Gordijn (eds).  Compendium of Global Bioethics (Springer, in press).

Good in Theory. Can it work in Practice? American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), in press.

 

 

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Department of Epidemiology & Population Health

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Contact

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Block, Room 220D
Bronx, NY 10461

Tel: 718.430.3574
Fax: 718.430.3076
ruth.macklin@einstein.yu.edu

 
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Media Coverage

ABC.com interviews Dr. Ruth Macklin about the ethical and social consequences of NFL quarterback Peyton Manning’s decision to try an experimental stem cell treatment, not approved by the FDA, for a bulging disk in his neck.

PRI's The World interviews Ruth Macklin, Ph.D., about the ethics of offering a genetic test for Huntington's disease to study subjects who helped create the test.

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