Keynote speaker
Richard Ashcroft
Richard works on the role of human rights theory, law and practice in bioethics policy, and on ethical challenges in public health. He was Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health, funded by the Wellcome Trust, with partners at Kings College London and the London School of Economics. He has a longstanding interest in biomedical research ethics, and is ethics lead on two projects led by Dr Anna David at UCL on treatments and diagnostics in complex pregnancies. He is a Principal Investigator on the MRC-funded UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies. Richard is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Bristol University and a fellow of the ETHOX Centre, Oxford University. He was Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and still serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He was a member of the Ethics and Policy Advisory Committee of the Medical Research Council, Director of the Appointing Authority for Phase I Ethics Committees and is currently a member of the Royal College of Physicians working party on tobacco.
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