Director, Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Danielle Hamm took up the role of director at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in June 2021. Previously, she was associate director of campaigns and policy at the charity Rethink Mental Illness. Before this, Danielle worked as director of Compassion in Dying and as senior policy manager at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, leading on policy development relating to sperm, egg and embryo donation. She has also been ethics advisor to the British Medical Association.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics recently published a report identifying gaps in ethical guidance available to those working in UK-based genomic research and healthcare. In this article, Danielle Hamm, director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics discusses how and why these need to be addressed in a coordinated way...
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