MalariaGEN Investigator - Michael Parker

Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Michael Parker is Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre and leads the Ethics Team within the MalariaGEN Resource Centre. His main research interest is in the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches to researching the ethical and social dimensions of biomedical science and clinical practice. His current research activities include: leading a programme of multidisciplinary research on the ethical and social aspects of a major international genomic epidemiology consortium (MalariaGEN); leading research into the ethical issues arising in the development and use of e-science and Grid technologies for medical research on patient records (funded by the Medical Research Council); carrying out multidisciplinary social science, ethical and legal research on the governance of genetic databases (funded by the Wellcome Trust); and, facilitating the Genethics Club, a national ethics forum for health professionals working in clinical genetics.

Michael is on a number of committees and working parties. He is a member of the Ethics in Practice Committee of the Royal College of Physicians, the Department of Health's Pandemic Influenza Ethics Committee, the Steering Committee of the UK Clinical Ethics Network, and the Steering Group of the Genethics Club. He has previously sat on a number of national and international committees and working parties including: Lord Warner's Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Research Ethics, the Ministerial Task Force on the Summary Care Record, the Royal College of Physicians Working Party on Clinical Ethics Committees, the British Medical Association Working Party on Cognitive Enhancement, and the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics.