Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.27

ABSTRACT

The lecture will focus on the relationship between PRC and the European Union, with a sThe ethical and policy challenges of genome editing are very much in the public awareness due to the rapid advances in the development and uses of the technologies, but the issues and challenges have been part of the bioethics and health policy debates for at least two decades.  This presentation will chart that history and the issues that were relevant 20 years ago as well as today through the discussion of three short cases of the combined uses of genetic and reproductive technologies.

ABSTRACT

The near-routine exclusion of pregnant women from clinical research has resulted in a dearth of data to inform medical decisions about safe and effective treatments and preventives for this complex population. This presentation will describe the problem and its origins and examine aspects of the policy landscape—including recent international ethics guidance, regional and national regulatory approaches, and practices—that frame responses to this challenging issue. This examination will reveal that regulatory approaches in some cases can be more restrictive than international ethics guidance, and that even when policies expressly permit research with pregnant women, practical challenges arising throughout the research pathway continue to stymie advancement in addressing research needs of this population.

ORGANIZERS

Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP)

LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy

Center for Biomedical Ethics, Fudan University