Equal Rights and Protections in Human Subjects Research – A Call to Action with Leslie E. Wolf

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2024-10-14 12:00:00 2024-10-14 13:00:00 Equal Rights and Protections in Human Subjects Research – A Call to Action with Leslie E. Wolf Event Description The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum presents: Equal Rights and Protections in Human Subjects Research – A Call to Action with Leslie E. Wolf The COVID-19 pandemic provided a stark reminder of the critical role of biomedical research in saving human lives. But it also highlighted an urgent need for research that expands the evidence base in ways that reduce health disparities and promote equity. But the inclusive research needed to achieve these goals may be hampered by the fact any efforts to achieve these goals are embedded in a system that treats research participants unequally. The federal regulations governing human subject research do not apply to all research, leaving some participants unprotected. In addition, because of variation in state laws, participants in the same study may have different rights and protections. Congress has the power to provide additional procedural and substantive research protections that would uniformly apply to all participants, and Wolf will provide some recommendations for changes Congress should consider. Speaker Bio Leslie E. Wolf is the Ben F. Johnson Jr. Chair in Law, Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State University’s College of Law, jointly appointed in the School of Public Health, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. She was on faculty at the University of California, San Francisco from 1998-2007.   Wolf conducts research in a variety of areas in health and public health law and ethics, with a particular focus on research ethics. She previously served on the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). She continues to serve on the SACHRP Subcommittee.   She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Harvard Law School and Stanford University. She also was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy and a Greenwall Faculty Scholar.   Students only: Case Western Reserve University School of Law George Gund Hall Room A59, Moot Courtroom 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106 Virtual for non-students. School of Law School of Law America/New_York public