Developing outcomes assessment measures for research ethics committees/ ethical issues in tuberculosis care and control

Carl Coleman is a professor of law in the Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey (USA).  Before joining the Seton Hall faculty, he was Executive Director of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, an interdisciplinary governmental commission charged with developing public policy on a broad range of issues raised by medical advances.  From 2006-07, he served as Bioethics and Law Adviser to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, where he was the principal drafter of the WHO report Ethical Considerations in Preparing for a Public Health Response to Pandemic Influenza and contributed to a WHO project on stregnthening research ethics committees in Western and Central Africa.  He is the lead author of The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects (Lexis 2005) (with Menikoff, Goldner & Dubler), as well as numerous articles in legal and health policy journals on research with human participants, pandemic preparedness, assisted reproductive technologies, and medical decisions at the end of life.   During his 2010 stay at the Brocher Foundation, Carl is collaborating with WHO's Ethics and Health unit to organize a project to develop outcomes assessment measures for research ethics committees, and with WHO's Stop TB Program to draft a report on ethical issues in tuberculosis care and control.  He is also working on a paper on informed consent to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment.