Emily Anderson, PhD, MPH

Emily E. Anderson, PhD, MPH Instructor, Certificate Program

Emily Anderson is Project Director at the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She holds a PhD in health care ethics from Saint Louis University where she also completed a certificate in quantitative and qualitative empirical research. In 2006-2007, she was a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association. Her areas of expertise include ethical issues in research with vulnerable populations, research ethics and IRB policy, and the application of qualitative research techniques to the study of research ethics. Dr. Anderson has published articles in the journals Academic Medicine, Drug and Alcohol Independence, Accountability in Research, and the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics and has presented at conferences of the American Public Health Association and the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. Anderson is a member of the UIC Institutional Review Board (#3) and a member of the advisory board for the Regulatory Knowledge and Support Core of UIC's Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS).

Selected Recent Publications

Anderson EE, Iltis AS. (2008). Assessing and Improving Research Participants' Understanding of Risk:
Potential Lessons from the Literature on Physician-Patient Risk Communication. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. 3(3): 27-37.

DuBois JM, Dueker JM, Anderson EE, Campbell J. (2008). The Development and Assessment of an NIH-Funded Research Ethics Training Program. Academic Medicine. 83(6):596-603.

Anderson EE, Black LJ, Bostick NA. (2007). Preventing Tragedy: Balancing Physicians' Ethical Obligations to Patients and the Public. Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness. 1(Suppl 1): S38-S42.

Anderson EE, DuBois JM. (2007). The Need for Evidence-Based Research Ethics: A Review of the Substance Abuse Literature. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 86(2-3): 95-105.

Anderson EE. (2006). A Qualitative Study of Non-affiliated, Non-scientist Institutional Review Board Members. Accountability in Research. 13(2): 135-155.

DuBois JM, Anderson EE. (2006). Attitudes Toward Death Criteria and Organ Donation among Health Care Personnel and the General Public. Progress in Transplantation. 16(1):65-73.

Other Selected Publications

Anderson EE. (2007). "Ethics in Public Health," "Jenner, Edward," "Pasteur, Louis," and "Reed, Walter." In Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Edited by Sarah Boslaugh, Sage Publications.

Anderson EE. (2007). What We Talk about When We Talk about Goals. Virtual Mentor. 9(6):407-409. Available at: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2007/06/pdf/fred1-0706.pdf. (also served as June 2007 Theme Issue Editor)

Black L, Anderson EE. (2007). Physicians, Patients, and Confidentiality: The Role of Physicians in Electronic Health Records. (Open Peer Commentary.) American Journal of Bioethics. 7(3): 50-51.

Anderson EE. (2006). Managing Chronic Conditions in Uninsured Patients. Virtual Mentor. 8(11):709-716. Available at: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2006/11/pdf/ccas1-0611.pdf.

Anderson EE. (2006) Parental Consent for Pediatric Research. Virtual Mentor. 8(10):667-671. Available at: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2006/10/pdf/jdsc1-0610.pdf.

Anderson EE, Bedi T, Choi MJ, Mlinarevich N. (2003). Issues, Discussion, and Recommendations from Conference Breakout Sessions. Leadership In Public Health. Special Issue: Ethical Issues in Community Based Collaborative Research: Conference Proceedings. 6(3): 27-36.

Selected Presentations

Anderson EE. Public participation in research ethics oversight: A qualitative study of non-affiliated, non-scientist institutional review board members. (oral presentation) 8th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. Denver, CO. October 2006.

Anderson EE. May I have your attention please? Implications of the use of stimulant medications to treat ADHD in children. (invited panelist) 9th Annual National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, Notre Dame, IN, March 2005.

Anderson EE. Participatory research in public health: More ethical or following a different ethic? (oral presentation) 133rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 2005.

Anderson EE. Immigrants and refugees in St. Louis. How this translates to IRB review. (invited presentation) Washington University Human Studies Committee Annual Retreat. St. Louis, MO. May 2005.

Anderson EE. Ethical issues in participatory research in public health. (oral presentation) 2005 Saint Louis University Graduate Student Symposium. St. Louis, MO. April 2005.

Professional Memberships

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
American Public Health Association (2006 and 2007 Ethics SPIG Program Coordinator)

 

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Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics
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