The Ethics of Research on Pregnant Participants

The research community is undergoing a hard-fought cultural shift from exclusion to inclusion of pregnant participants in clinical research. This panel will discuss what equitable inclusion of pregnant participants should look like and whether ethical considerations related to researching pregnant people have changed in light of the growing political restrictions to reproductive healthcare.

Featured Panelists:

·         Dr. Anne Drapkin Lyerly (Professor of Social Medicine and Research Professor OBGYN, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill)

·         Dr. Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson (Associate Professor College of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, OSU)