The ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries

Positions held correct at December 2001

Professor Sir Kenneth Calman (Chairman)

Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham and Member of Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Dr Fred Binka

Navrongo Health Research Centre and Ghana School of Public Health

Professor Michael Elves

Former Director, Office of Scientific and Educational Affairs, Glaxo Wellcome plc

Professor V I Mathan

Division Director for Laboratory Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka

Professor Keith McAdam

Director, MRC Laboratories, Fajara, The Gambia

Dr Anne McLaren

Wellcome/CRC Institute, Cambridge

Professor Bhikhu Parekh

Professor of Political Theory, University of Hull

Professor David Parkin

Professor of Social Anthropology, All Souls College, Oxford

Professor Catherine Peckham CBE

Professor of Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health, University College London and member of Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Professor Povl Riis

Copenhagan Ministry of Science

Professor Nelson Sewankambo

Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Mrs Shahwar Sadeque

Educational & ICT Consultant

Professor Peter Smith

Head of Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Dr Fabio Zicker

Coordinator, Research Capacity Strengthening and Tropical Diseases Research Programme, World Health Organization