Research Group: Ethics in European & International Health Policy

The research group “Ethics in European & International Health Policy” offers a forum for members of the Department of International Health and other interested staff of the Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences of Maastricht University. Members of this research group work at the interface of European, international & global health and normative-ethical questions. Members apply ethical methods and approaches to moral conflicts encountered in international health.

The research group has own projects but also gets together as a cross-cutting forum to consult running projects with regard to normative-ethical questions (e.g. the projects Euregio II or Health Literacy).

Bachelor and Master students of „European Public Health” are invited to find a discursive and constructive home base for their research projects. Regular “Brown Bag Lunches” offer student and staff members the opportunity to present their ongoing research.

Group Members:

Helmut Brand (department chair)

Timo Clemens

Kasia Czabanowska

Kai Michelsen

Chibuzo Opara

Peter Schröder-Bäck (research group coordinator)

Tobias Schulte in den Bäumen

Kristine Sørensen

Vivian Stoffels

Associated student members:

Lucy Freundel

Julie Gross

Anna Hansen

Jintana Jankhotkaew

Hosnya Karim

Magda Kaczmarek

Jonas Lander

Current Research Topics & Projects:

-          Ethics of the European Commission’s Health Strategy (Schröder-Bäck, Brand, Clemens, Michelsen, Schulte in den Bäumen, Sørensen)

-          Ethical issues of cross border health care in the EU (Karim, Michelsen, Opara, Schröder-Bäck)

-          Food Ethics (Schröder-Bäck, Stoffels)

-          Global Health & Justice (Schröder-Bäck, Brand, Gross)

-          Female Gentiale Mutilation (Freundel)

-          Pandemic Preparedness (Schröder-Bäck, Lander)

-          Patients’ rights in the EU (Kaczmarek)

-          Priority setting of medical care: European comparisons (Clemens, Schröder-Bäck, Brand; cf. http://www.priorisierung-in-der-medizin.de/; Project B4)

-          Privacy & Genomics (Schulte in den Bäumen)

-          Public Health Ethics – History, Methods & Norms (Schröder-Bäck)

-          Rights to Health (Care) in the European Region (Hansen)

-          Teaching Public Health Ethics (Czabanowska, Schröder-Bäck)

-          Universal Health Care Coverage in Thailand (Jankhotkaew)

-          Vaccination in the EU (Schröder-Bäck, Brand)

Links:

EUPHA section "Ethics in Public Health", ASPHER Working Group on Ethics

Contact:

Group coordinator: dr. Peter Schröder-Bäck (email: mail-inthealth@inthealth.unimaas.nl)

Last update 12/2009