Gail Henderson, PhD
        Professor

Gail E. Henderson, Ph.D. is Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, School of Medicine. A medical sociologist with training in public health, her teaching and research interests include research ethics and global health. In 1999, Henderson co-edited a research ethics casebook, Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research. Since then she has been awarded a number of NIH grants on research ethics, including several that focus on the ethical, legal and social (ELSI) issues arising in genetic research. Henderson’s research in China has spanned more than two decades. Her dissertation, a study of a teaching hospital in Wuhan, was published as The Chinese Hospital: A Socialist Work Unit. She collaborated with the Chinese Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene on a longitudinal NIH-funded survey, “The China Health and Nutrition Survey,” which produced a number of articles on health services use in China and an edited volume, Re-Drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China. More recently, she has served as a consultant to the China CDC National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, organizing a series of ethics and IRB training workshops. In May 2003 she provided testimony on the SARS outbreak to the joint Congressional-Executive Committee on China. At UNC, Henderson is a member of the International Affairs Advisory Council, and is Director of the International Core of the UNC Center for AIDS Research. Most recently she is PI on two 5-year NIH awards: “Partnership for Social Science Research on HIV/AIDS in China,” and a grant that extends her work on ELSI issues in genetics, for a “Center for Genomics and Society.”

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You may contact Dr. Henderson by email: ghenders@med.unc.edu; by phone at: (919) 843-8268; or by post at: CB #7240, Department of Social Medicine / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240.

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