Summer School Schedule: Lectures & Seminars

Monday, August 5

9:30 am – 10:00 am: Welcome 
Ana Lita, Ph.D. and Phaik Yeong Cheah, Ph.D.
Program Introduction

10:00 am – 12:30 pm: Research vs. Routine Practice: Basic Concepts of Research Ethics
Jan Piasecki, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College

12:30 pm: Lunch at the restaurant

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Access to Novel, High-Cost Cancer Medicines – Towards a More Holistic Approach to Realizing Universal Health Coverage
Calvin Ho, JSD, LLM, M.Sc., Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: How to Write an Ethics Paper

Calvin Ho, JSD, LLM, M.Sc., Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm: Guest Speaker:
From the Local to Global: Ethics of Preserving Our Heritage for the Next Generation
Noel Hidalgo Tan, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Specialist in Archeology, Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Archeology and Fine Arts (SEAMEO-SPAFA)

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: MORU Welcoming Reception

Tuesday, August 6

9:30 am – 12:00 pm: Community Engagement and Global Health Research
Phaik Yeong Cheah, B.Pharm, M.Sc., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oxford University, Head of the Department of Bioethics and Engagement, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health
Puey Ounjai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mahidol University

12:00 pm: Lunch at the restaurant

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Governance of Human Genome/Genetic Modification
Calvin Ho, JSD, LLM, M.Sc., Assistant Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore 

2:00 pm – 9:30 pm: Field Trip
Wat Arun Temple
Group Dinner: River Cruise

Wednesday, August 7

9:30 am – 12:30 pm: Informed Consent: Problems, Solutions and Debate
Ilene F. Wilets, Ph.D., IRB Chair Program for the Protection of Human Subjects, Senior Faculty, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:30 pm: Lunch at the restaurant

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Is There Duty to Participate in Research?
Jan Piasecki, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College

3:30 pm – 5:15 pm: Film Screening – Three Identical Strangers

Thursday, August 8

9:30 am – 11:30 am: Increasing Access to Hepatitis C Medication through Clinical Trials: Views from Rwanda and Vietnam
Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit

11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Data Ethics
Phaik Yeong Cheah, B.Pharm, M.Sc., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oxford University, Head of the Department of Bioethics and Engagement, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health

12:30 pm: Lunch at the restaurant

2:30 pm: Depart Abloom (van transfer)

3:00 pm: – 4:00 pm: Field Trip (Lab Tour)
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Guest Speaker:
Ethics & Global Elimination of Malaria
Nicholas Day, FMedSci, FRCP, Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Director of Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

6:00 pm: Depart MORU (van transfer)

Friday, August 9

9:30 am – 11:00 am: Social Media Research: Is Big Brother Watching
Ilene F. Wilets, Ph.D., IRB Chair Program for the Protection of Human Subjects, Senior Faculty, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Ethical Questions on Egg Donation
Ana Lita, Ph.D., Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI)

12:30 pm: Lunch at the restaurant

1:30 pm –  5:00 pm: Participants’ Mini-Conference

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Graduation Ceremony