Susan Bull

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

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Susan Bull is the Senior Ethicist at the Centre for Genomics and Global Health. Susan holds bachelors degrees in genetics and in law, and studied for her MA and PhD at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London. As Assistant Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, she was responsible for the Council's Working Party report on the ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries, and worked on other topics as diverse as GM crops and stem cell research. Susan's PhD thesis focused on designing context-appropriate consent processes in developing countries, and during this period she also developed an award-winning dossier on research ethics in developing countries for SciDev.Net. Susan's role is to develop responses to the ethical and policy issues arising out of MalariaGEN's research, to conduct empirical research to inform policy development where appropriate, and to provide training and capacity building resources in research ethics, with a particular focus on genomic research in developing countries.