Geisinger’s new Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences is recruiting bioethicists
at all faculty ranks. Although faculty in the department pursue more traditional research in their respective fields
of bioethics and decision sciences — both broadly construed — the department’s unique vision is to bring these
fields together to collaborate on research and other activities at the intersection of their interests, especially
on studies of judgments and decision-making in the domains of health, science and innovation. The department
The Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Bioethics Graduate Program at Wake Forest University invite applications for a tenure-track professor (assistant, associate, or full). Applicants must have a PhD, JD, or MD; education in any field is acceptable, but candidates should have strong grounding in both empirical approaches to bioethics and moral theory in bioethics and should demonstrate ability to integrate empirical research with conceptual analysis.
Project Narrative This proposal seeks to investigate the ethical, social, and policy implications of a new kind of genetic information currently available to the public: polygenic scores for educational attainment (EA-PGS).
Prenatal screening and testing technologies using genetic methods are rapidly expanding, offering increasing amounts of genetic information about the fetus. However, research shows that women from underserved populations are less likely to receive or accept prenatal genetic services, leading to discordant birth outcomes. We propose to explore the barriers to access and acceptance of prenatal genetic care among women from underserved populations.
This Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) investigates and leverages perspectives from members of the health-related private sector genomics industry, to develop guidance for improving approaches to social and ethical issues in the industry. It does so through in-depth qualitative analysis (interviews, cases studies, comparative analysis), scholarly normative analysis (drawing on theories from bioethics and business ethics), and a Delphi process of iterative questionnaires with industry stakeholders, aimed at strategizing concrete change regarding social obligations of the industry.