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Introducing Guest Blogger Annette Rid

Annette Rid is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Society at the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, King’s College London, where she co-directs a new MA in Bioethics & Society. She also is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, and a member of the working group to revise…

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Annette Rid
is a Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Society at the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine, King’s College London, where she co-directs a new MA in Bioethics & Society. She also is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, and a member of the working group to revise the 2002 CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects. In the past, Annette has worked at the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health; the Ethics & Health Unit, World Health Organization; the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Commission on “Ethics and Law in Medicine”, German Parliament; and the neonatal intensive care unit, Charité University Medicine Berlin.

Representative Publications:

With David Wendler, PhD, “A Proposal and Prototype for a Research Risk Repository to Improve the Protection of Research Participants,” Clinical Trials Vol. 8, No. 6 (Dec. 2011): 705-715.

With David Wendler, PhD, “A Framework for Risk-Benefit Evaluations in Biomedical Research,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Vol. 21, No. 2 (June 2011).

With Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD; David Wendler, PhD, “Evaluating the Risks of Clinical Research,” JAMA 304, no. 13 (October 2010):1472-1479.

With David Wendler, PhD, “Can We Improve Treatment Decision-Making for Incapacitated Patients?” The Hastings Center Report (Sept.-Oct. 2010).

Justice and Procedure: How Does ‘Accountability for Reasonableness’ Result in Fair Limit-Setting Decisions?Journal of Medical Ethics 35 (2009) 12-16.

About the author

  • Petrie-Flom Center

    The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is a prominent research program dedicated to legal analysis and interdisciplinary scholarship on the questions facing health policymakers, medical professionals, industry leaders, patients, and families. The Center was founded in 2005 through a generous gift from Joseph H. Flom ’48 and the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation.