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Professor Brian Salter
– UEA
Brian Salter is Professor of Biopolitics and Director
of the Global Biopolitics Research Group at the University
of East Anglia. A political scientist specialising in
the analysis of public policy, he has studied the political
forces at work in the policy arenas of education, health
and, most recently, the life sciences. Here his work
focuses on the global politics of new health technologies
and the international governance issues surrounding
the bioethics and regulatory policies of stem cell research
and regenerative medicine. He has published eight books
and numerous articles including The new politics
of medicine (2004) and The politics of change
in the Health Service (1998). Closely associated
with his academic work is his role as policy adviser
to government, funding agencies, professional and international
bodies and his contribution as ethical adviser to the
European Framework Programmes. An experienced flight
instructor and flight examiner, he is probably the only
professor in the UK to have flown a World War II Spitfire.
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Tony Barnett
– LSE
Tony Barnett is ESRC Professorial Research Fellow at
the London School of Economics. He has degrees in Economics,
Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, and for many years
specialized in the Sudan and Middle East. Since 1986
he has researched the social and economic impacts of
the HIV/AIDS epidemic and is co-author (with Piers Blaikie)
of AIDS in Africa: its present and future impact
(1992, Wiley, London and Guilford Press, New York) and
(with Alan Whiteside) AIDS in the 21st Century:
disease and globalisation, (2006 2nd revised edition,
Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York).
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Professor Richard Ashcroft
– QMUL
Richard Ashcroft is currently Professor of Biomedical
Ethics at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL,
and is shortly to take up a chair in Bioethics in the
School of Law, QMUL. He has written widely on ethical
and social issues in medicine and the life sciences,
and has particular interests in human experimentation,
research ethics and international public health ethics.
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Vin-Kimh Nguyen
– Univerisity of Montreal
N is an HIV physician and medical anthropologist. He
is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine
at the Université de Montréal and also
practices at the Clinique médicale l'Actuel in
Montréal, which is Canada's leading HIV clinic.
His research concerns the social, cultural, historical
and political dimensions of the response to the HIV
epidemic and is focussed on West Africa. He has done
extensive fieldwork in Burkina Faso and Côte-d'Ivoire
on the epidemic, as well as working with local community
groups involved in prevention and treatment programs
there since 1994. He recently received a major research
grant from CIHR to study treatment adherence in Ouagadougou
and Bamako, and is using this epidemiological study
as a platform to look at broader socio-political issues
raised by treatment programs. He will be pursuing fieldwork
in rebel and government held territories in Côte-d'Ivoire
to examine President Bush's Emergency AIDS Relief Program
(PEPFAR) as a case study in humanitarian governmentality
and pursue his hypothesis that this is an emerging military
therapeutic complex. His ethnographic and historical
study of the response to the AIDS epidemic in West Africa,
the Republic of Therapy: biopolitics before and after
antiretrovirals in French West Africa, is forthcoming.
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John Cornwell
Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project,
Jesus College, Cambridge, and Research Scholar in the
Department of History and Philosophy of Science in the
University of Cambridge. Author of Power to Harm and
Hitler's Scientists; editor of Nature's Imagination
and Explanations.
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Dr Adam Hedgecoe
– Sussex
Adam Hedgecoe is a sociologist of science and technology
with an interest in social and ethical issues around
genetic testing. He is author of The Politics of
Personalised Medicine - Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic
(2004, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) and is
currently running a four country comparative ethnography
of research ethics review committees.
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Professor Andrew Lakoff
– UCSD
Andrew Lakoff is Assistant Professor of Sociology and
Science Studies at UC San Diego. He is author of Pharmaceutical
Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge,
2005) and co-editor (with Adriana Petryna and Arthur
Kleinman) of Global
Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices (Duke,
2006). His current research concerns the intersection
of security and health expertise around the global threat
of emerging disease.
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Professor Vincent Del
Casino – CSULB
Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. is an Associate Professor
and in-coming Chair in the Department of Geography at
California State University, Long Beach, USA. He has
published numerous articles and book chapters related
to his interest in critical social theory and health
geography with a particular focus on health care programs
for people living with HIV disease as well as HIV prevention
outreach in both Thailand and Long Beach, California.
His work on Thailand has been published in journals,
such as Health and Place and The Professional
Geographer, as well as in a book chapter in the
recently edited Population Dynamics and Infectious
Diseases in Asia. He has also published several
pieces related to his interests in the intersections
between health geography, sexuality studies, and drug
use studies in Long Beach, California. This work can
be found in the forthcoming volume Geographies of
Sexualities and in Health and Place.
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Professor Jon Harkness
– University of Minnesota
Jon Harkness is an adjunct assistant professor in the
Program in the History of Medicine at the University
of Minnesota. For seven years (1992–1999), he
served as managing editor of Isis, the official journal
of the History of Science Society. In the mid-1990s
(1994–1995), he also served as a consultant to
President Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Human
Radiation Experiments. His research centers on the history
of medical science in the twentieth century, largely
in an American context. He is especially interested
in the history of human experimentation and the development
of chronic disease epidemiology. He has a book contract
with Oxford University Press to publish a revised version
of his dissertation, “Research behind Bars: A
History of Nontherapeutic Research on American Prisoners.”
His past publications include “Nuremberg and the
Issue of Wartime Experiments on US Prisoners: The Green
Committee,” Journal of the American Medical
Association, 276 (27 November 1996): 1672–1675;
“Laying Ethical Foundations for Clinical Research,”
Bulletin of the World Health Organization,
79 (April 2001): 365–366; and “The US Public
Health Service and Smoking in the 1950s: The Tale of
Two More Statements,” Journal of the History
of Medicine and Allied Sciences 62 (April 2007):
171–212.
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