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The following are faculty at UNC who teach subjects directly relevant to
public health ethics.
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School of Public Health
Ned Brooks: Ned_Brooks@unc.edu
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Reseach interests: Ned Brooks's research interests are in health
services policy, access to health services, healthcare leadership, and research
ethics. He teaches HPAA 711, Research Management and Ethics in Health Policy.
Eugenia Eng: Eugenia_Eng@unc.edu
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Research interests: Geni Eng focuses on the integration of community
development and health education interventions in the rural United States
and developing countries. Her current research projects apply community-based
research principles to the design and evaluation of lay health advisor
interventions and look at the influence of sociocultural factors on STDs and
early detection of breast cancer. Dr. Eng directs the Masters Program and the
Community Health Scholars post-doctoral program. She teaches community
organization, cross-cultural aspects of health education practices, community
diagnosis and health issues relevant to women, ethnic minorities, and
developing nations.
Dean Harris: Dean.Harris@sph.unc.edu
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Research interests: Professor Harris's primary areas of interest within
the field of ethics are organizational and administrative ethics, such as
determining the best ways to promote ethical decision-making in healthcare
organizations. He is also interested in how to handle the ethical issues
involved in managed care and the rationing of healthcare resources. Finally, he
is interested in finding the best ways to integrate the functions of ethics, compliance,
and quality improvement in healthcare organizations.
Vijaya Hogan: vijaya_hogan@unc.edu
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Research interests: Dr. Hogan's research interests are in perinatal
epidemiology, preterm delivery, infant mortality, health disparities, pathways
from exogenous social exposures and psychosocial factors to disease. She
teaches MCH 756, Understanding and addressing health inequalities in the US.
Thomas Ricketts: tom_ricketts@unc.edu
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Research interests: Dr. Ricketts specializes in health services research
methods with an emphasis on rural health care delivery. He views public health
ethics through the lens of politics. His additional interests include the
structure of primary care and the development and spread of community oriented
primary care. He is also working on the geographic analysis of health resources
using cartographic techniques. One project related to this is an atlas of
health services and health needs. He also works on other projects that focus on
cancer prevention research in smaller communities and variations in cancer
treatment patterns.
James Thomas: Jim_Thomas@unc.edu
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Research interests: Dr. Thomas studies the social epidemiology of
sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. At present he is studying
the community health effects of high rates of incarceration and the effects of
agency network characteristics on rates of STDs. He was one of the principal
authors of the US Public Health Code of Ethics and serves on the ethics
subcommittee of the advisory committee to the Director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Thomas teaches EPID 880, Foundations in
Public Health Ethics, and EPID 826, Social Epidemiology: Concepts and Measures.
David Weber: DWeber@unch.unc.edu
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Research interests: Dr. Weber has research interests in: nosocomial
infections; human immunodeficiency virus infection; infectious diarrhea;
tuberculosis. Each summer he teaches a short course entitled "The
Responsible Conduct of Research" for students and staff in the health
sciences.
Steven Wing: Steve_Wing@unc.edu
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Research interests: Dr. Wing's professional interests are broadly in the
area of public health and social justice. He has conducted research in social
inequalities in health, health effects of ionizing radiation, occupational
epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, and philosophy of epidemiology. He is
currently working on issues of environmental justice and community involvement
in research.
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School of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine
Gail Henderson
Professor Henderson
is a medical sociologist with training in public health. She has extensive
experience with qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, as
well as with conceptual and empirical cross-disciplinary research and analysis.
Her teaching and research interests include health care in China, global
health inequality, and research ethics.
Dan Nelson
Before coming to UNC in 1998, Dan spent nearly 20 years conducting biomedical
research, with a focus on neurochemical mechanisms subserving gastrointestinal
function in health and disease. He held faculty appointments at the Mayo
Clinic, with a sabbatical conducting human studies in Europe, and the University of Rochester, where he was Director of
Research in a clinical gastroenterology unit and chair of a hospital IRB.
His move to Chapel Hill represents a
full-time commitment to research ethics, in a way that bridges the gap between
the philosophical aspirations of ethics and the realities of clinical research,
with the aim of facilitating research that is performed in a sound, ethical
manner. Dan is Director of the UNC Office of Human Research Studies.
Rebecca Walker
Dr. Walker's
philosophical research interests are in the areas of ethical theory and
bioethics. She is primarily interested in a pluralistic approach to ethical
theories and in topics in bioethics including: the allocation of scarce health
care resources, patient autonomy, and the ethics of how we treat non-human
animals. Teaching interests include these areas as well as the philosophy of
punishment. Sample publications include: "Morality and the Limits of
Societal Preferences in Health Care Allocation," (with Andrew W. Siegel)
in Health Economics (2002) and Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary
Moral Problems, co-edited with Philip J. Ivanhoe (2005).
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School of Dentistry
Ronald Strauss
Dr. Stauss's research focus has been on the social
impacts of chronic health problems, especially dental conditions, craniofacial
anomalies and HIV/AIDS. His work combines his clinical, social science, ethical
and health policy interests as they relate to craniofacial surgery, fetal
surgery, aging, developmental disabilities, prenatal diagnosis, and quality
assurance.
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School of Nursing
Marcia VanRiper
Marcia Van Riper RN, PhD has a joint appointment in the School
of Nursing and the Carolina Center
for Genome Sciences. She received a BS in Nursing from De Pauw University, a MS
in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a MA in Bioethics (with
an emphasis on genetic issues) from Case Western Reserve University, and a PhD
in Nursing and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Van
Riper has conducted numerous studies concerning families of children with Down
syndrome. She teaches "Genetics and Nursing Practice" to 2nd Degree
students in the 14 month BSN Program. She also coordinates an interdisciplinary
course "Genomics and Society" and gives genetic lectures in a variety
of undergraduate and graduate courses.
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School of Government
A. Fleming Bell, II
Dr. Bell earned his BA and JD degrees from Duke University
and an MRP degree from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Before joining the Institute
of Government in 1982, he worked as a
city-county planner in Rockingham and Richmond County.
He is chair of the General Practice Curriculum Committee of the North Carolina
Bar Association and of the Pro Bono Committee of the Association's Construction
Law Section. His publications include Ethics, Conflicts, and
Offices: A Guide for Local Officials; County Government in North
Carolina; Construction Contracts with North Carolina Local Government;
(now in its third edition), procedure handbooks for city councils and small
local government boards, and articles on citizen participation in board
meetings and other topics.
Jill Moore
Jill earned her BS, MPH and her JD from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. She joined the faculty of the Institute of Government
in 1997, following a one-year judicial clerkship with the Honorable Willis P.
Whichard, Supreme Court of North Carolina. She is a member of the North
Carolina State Bar and specializes in communicable disease control, local
boards of health and health department services, medical confidentiality,
treatment of minors, jail health, and selected issues in the provision of
public health service to immigrants. She is currently serving as director of
the Institute's summer law clerk program. Her publications include, Immigrants'
Access to Benefits: Who Remains Eligible for What?, and Popular Government,
Fall 1999 (Vol. 65, No. 1).
Aimee Wall
Aimee earned her B.A. from Ohio State University
and her J.D. and M.P.H. from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Prior to joining the Institute
of Government, she practiced health
care law with the firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy in Washington, D.C.
and served as a health policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary in the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She is a member of the North
Carolina State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. At the Institute, Aimee
focuses on public health issues including health information privacy,
environmental health, smoking regulation, local boards of health and health
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