University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rebecca Walker is a professor of philosophy and of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a philosopher of medicine, her work addresses animal ethics, health justice, genomic ethics, and bioethics concepts and methodologies. She has published widely in bioethics, science, philosophy, and medicine journals and her co-edited books include Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (2007); Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice (2016); and the two volume Social Medicine Reader (2019). Her monograph, Of Mice and Primates: Virtue Ethics and Animal Research is forthcoming. At UNC, Dr. Walker also directs the new Bringing Ethics and Animal Studies Together (BEAST) project, is core faculty in the Center for Bioethics, a fellow in the Parr Center for Ethics, and a member of the standing advisory committee for the Department of Public Policy (where she is also an adjunct professor). For the UNC campus, she is an elected member of the faculty grievances committee. For the state, she recently served on the Covid-19 advisory committee for allocation of scarce resources and also on the vaccine advisory board. In November of 2021, Dr. Walker was elected as a Hastings Center fellow. More information is available at: https://rebeccawalker.web.unc.edu
G13 - PLENARY: Ethical Review of Human and Animal Subjects Research Proposals
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
8:45 AM – 10:00 AM PT