University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, MA is Professor of Social Medicine, Research Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and core faculty in the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and bioethicist, she studies ethically complex issues around gender and reproductive medicine. She co-founded the Second Wave Initiative, an effort to ensure that the health interests of pregnant people are fairly represented in biomedical research and drug and device policies. She is PI on the NIH-funded PHASES Project addressing the ethics of HIV research and pregnancy and the PREPARE Project addressing the ethics of research engaging pregnant adolescents; and was co-PI on the Wellcome Trust funded PREVENT project on research, pregnancy and public health emergencies. Dr. Lyerly is an alumna of the Greenwall Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program and Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy. She chaired the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Ethics and has served as advisor for organizations including the US Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization. She has written dozens of articles and book chapters for academic and public audiences, including publications in journals such as JAMA and The Lancet as well as the New York Times. She is author of a book, A Good Birth, published by the Penguin Group/USA.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET