Ethik-Zentrum – Institut für Biomedizinische Ethik

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Curriculum Vitae

Dr Effy Vayena studied history of medicine, public health and bioethics at the Universities of Athens, London, Minnesota and Harvard. From 2000-2007 she was a Technical Officer at the World Health Organization WHO) where she worked on issues of reproductive health, clinical research ethics, equity and research capacity building in developing countries. She also served as a reviewer at the WHO’s Ethics Review Committee. She is currently a senior fellow and the academic coordinator of the PhD program in Biomedical Ethics and Law at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich. Her current research interests include ethics in reproductive health and assisted reproduction, research ethics, biobanking, ethics of novel uses of electronic health information, and personalized genomics. She teaches research ethics at graduate programs in the University of Zurich and she is a consultant at the World Health Organization. Her articles have been published by PLoS Medicine, Fertility and Sterility and EMBO while she has contributed chapters in several edited volumes. Her latest work on ethical issues in intra-family donation and donor recruitment will appear in 2012 in an edited volume published by the Cambridge University Press.

Forschungsprojekt

Universität Zürich, Forschungsdatenbank