Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Annual Public Lecture 2023: Facts, fakes, society and health
Patricia Kingori (Professor of Global Health Ethics, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Wellcome Senior Investigator, and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford)
Conference Hall, City Hall, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TR
Join University of Oxford’s Professor Patricia Kingori for the 2023 Elizabeth Blackwell Lecture (postponed from October 2023). Patricia leads a team of researchers exploring concerns around fakes, fabrications and falsehoods in Global Health. She will share her important work into how people, places and processes are involved in the complexities of falsehoods. Through a focus on her global health research she will bring the topic to life, provide new insights, and stimulate engaging discussion.
A sociologist with over twenty years of experience, Patricia has been a member of academic staff at the University of Oxford since 2012. As a Professor and Senior Investigator at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH) and the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, her work has focused on understanding the practice and motivations of data fabrication and academic malpractice more generally. She has acted as an advisor on the ethical conduct of research and intervention in the UK and in LMICs on the ethical treatment of frontline staff to numerous organisations including the WHO, Save the Children, the Medical Research Council, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and the Nuffield Council of Bioethics. In 2021 Patricia became one of the youngest women to be awarded a Full Professor in Oxford’s 925 year history. She has published widely in academic journals and received a Merit Award from the University of Oxford for her standards of academic excellence.
Contact information
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