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Reviewing the 14-day rule: working group

The working group will guide evidence-gathering activities and deliberate the project’s findings and conclusions.

Members

Chair: Sarah Devaney

Professor of Healthcare Law and Regulation, University of Manchester

Anna Mastroianni

Research Professor in Bioethics and Law, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (role-share with Jeffrey Kahn)

Elselijn Kingma

Sowerby Professor in Philosophy and Medicine, King’s College London

Emma Cave

Professor of Healthcare Law, University of Durham

Faye Ruddock

Professor and Chair of Health Equity and Director of the Institute of Health Equity and Social Justice, University of Greater Manchester, Chair of the Caribbean & African Health Network (CAHN)

Felicity Boardman

Professor of Social Science in Medicine, University of Warwick

Frances Flinter

Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Genetics at Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, and member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

Jeffrey Kahn

Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director; Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (role-share with Anna Mastroianni)

Jenny Nichols

Professor of Embryonic Pluripotency, and Group leader, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh

Katrien Devolder

Professor of Applied Ethics and Director of Public Philosophy, the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford

Nicky Hudson

Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University

Shankar Srinivas

Professor of Developmental Biology, Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford and Zeitlyn Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Jesus College, Oxford

Sheelagh McGuinness

Professor of Law, University of Bristol Law School

Thorsten Boroviak

Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Primate Embryogenesis, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research

Yacoub Khalaf

Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College London, and Head of Fertility Services and Director of Assisted Conception Unit, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital

Members of the Working Group are acting in a personal capacity and have not been appointed to represent the views of any organisation.