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Laura Bothwell, PhD, MA

Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
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Assistant Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Biography

Dr. Bothwell is an ethicist and historian of public health. Her research examines social, historical, and ethical dimensions of epidemiology with a particular focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Her current book project examines how international and national policies have influenced trial rigor and ethics, protections of vulnerable trial subjects, and participant diversity in RCTs. She also does work at the intersection of climate change, epidemiology, and ethics.

She completed a PhD in the History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine from the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Policy, Law, and Ethics in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has also had visiting appointments at Oxford University, Foundation Brocher, the Karolinska Institutet, and National Taiwan University. She teaches public health ethics and the history of public health, and provides pre-departure ethics training in global health practice. She holds a secondary appointment in the Section of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.

Appointments

Education & Training

Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2016)
PhD
Columbia University, History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine, Department of Sociomedical Sciences (2014)
MPhil
Columbia University, History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine, Department of Sociomedical Sciences (2011)
MA
Union Theological Seminary, Concentration in History of Science and Religion (2006)
BA
College of St. Scholastica, History (2004)

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Adaptive Clinical Trials as Topic; Bioethics; Environment and Public Health; Epidemiology; Ethics; Global Health; Government Regulation; History; History of Medicine; Human Rights; Pharmacoepidemiology; Policy; Political Systems; Public Health; Public Health Systems Research; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Social Determinants of Health; Social Justice; Social Medicine; Vulnerable Populations

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Laura Bothwell's published research.

Publications

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