ETHICS AND POLICY WORKING GROUP
The Ethics and Policy working group is available for consultations in developing research and ensuring equity and sustainability of work with vulnerable populations. See below for bios of our members. If you would like a consultation with a member of this working group, please use the consultation request form.
Ronald Bayer is a Professor at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he has taught since 1988.
Prior to coming to Columbia, he was at the Hastings Center, a research institute devoted to the study of ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences. Dr. Bayer's research has examined ethical and policy issues in public health, with a special focus on AIDS, tuberculosis, illicit drugs, and tobacco.
James Colgrove is a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. His research examines the relationship between individual rights and the collective well-being and the social, political, and legal processes through which public health policies have been mediated in American history. Dr. Colgrove's most recent book is Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York.
He is also the author of State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America; co-author, with Amy Fairchild and Ronald Bayer, of Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America; and co-editor of The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health.
Robert Klitzman is a Research Scientist and Investigator with the HIV Center's Development Core. He co-founded the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, and is the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, and a member of the Division of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics in the Department of Psychiatry.
His book, Being Positive: The Lives of Men and Women With HIV, examines the meanings of HIV infection, the ways in which individuals living with HIV find sources of hope in their lives, and the ways the virus alters individuals' identities and social and moral worlds. He has conducted research with Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. on self-disclosure of HIV serostatus to sexual partners and others, examining how individuals - both heterosexual and gay - make decisions about whether, what, when, and to whom to disclose.
