Skip to Content

September 16, 2019, 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Learn more about Holly Fernandez Lynch's research on her website.

Presentation

Topic: "Thinking about Bystanders to Research"

This paper is not available for download.

About the Presenter

Holly Fernandez Lynch is John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Assistant Faculty Director of Online Education in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2012 to 2017, she was the Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

In June 2019, Fernandez Lynch was named a Greenwall Faculty Scholar, Class of 2022. Her project – motivated by calls to acknowledge patient expertise, as well as broader attacks on traditional expertise and authority – focuses on the question of what makes health care gatekeeping ethical. The project aims to generate a normative framework to interrogate the scope, value, and legitimacy of health care gatekeeping and to develop sound policy approaches, with an emphasis on gatekeeping at the end of life.

Fernandez Lynch’s scholarly work focuses primarily on the ethics and regulation of research with human subjects and related areas, including payment to research participants, research with biospecimens, the use of social media in research settings, patient-engaged research, research risks to bystanders, access to investigational therapies (including “Right to Try”), and the quality of Institutional Review Board oversight of research. She is the founder and co-chair of the Consortium to Advance Effective Research Ethics Oversight (AEREO), established in 2018.

Fernandez Lynch has published in leading bioethics, medical, and law journals, including JAMA, The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Health Affairs, The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, and The American Journal of Bioethics, in addition to popular outlets such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and STAT. She is the author of Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise (MIT Press 2008), as well as the co-editor of seven books, covering human subjects research regulation; FDA regulation of drugs and new technologies; health law and behavioral economics; law, religion, and health; biospecimen research; big data, health law, and bioethics; and transparency in health and health care.

Fernandez Lynch served as member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) from 2014-2019, and she continues to serve on a SACHRP subcommittee. She has been co-investigator on projects examining issues related to improving recruitment to clinical trials, oversight of patient-centered outcomes research, and legal and ethical issues related to football player health.More Events

Related Event

Also on September 16, 2019, Holly Fernandez Lynch joined other co-editors and authors for a discussion of the Petrie-Flom Center's recently published edited volume Transparency in Health and Health Care (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Watch video of that event!

Learn more about Holly Fernandez Lynch's research on her website.

Tags

bioethics   health law policy   holly fernandez lynch   human subjects research   regulation   research