Katharine Wright Email & Phone Number

Katharine Wright is a freelance ethics consultant, currently working with the WHO Ethics and Governance Unit, the MRCT Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard, and the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal. She is also a member of the BMJ Ethics Committee.Before moving into this freelance role, she spent fifteen years as Assistant Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, directing projects on the ethical aspects of a wide range of policy issues, including ageing and dementia, the inclusion of children in research, the conduct of research in global health emergencies, the donation of bodily materials, and the promotion of cosmetic procedures. Her background is in health policy, law and ethics: before joining the Nuffield Council, she spent 9 years at the UK House of Commons, briefing MPs of all political parties on health issues, and then four years in the NHS, monitoring the effect of the Human Rights Act on health law in England. During her time at the House of Commons, she was also seconded to the English Department of Health to work on patient consent.

Listed skills include Ethics, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, Bioethics, and 12 others.