Bioethics’ Suzanne Rivera contributes to book on human subject research regulation

Suzanne RiveraSuzanne Rivera, assistant professor of bioethics and associate vice president for research, contributed to Human Subject Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future, which was published this summer.

Rivera wrote chapter 16, titled “Reconsidering Privacy Protections for Human Research.”

The book investigates the framework surrounding human subject research regulation by drawing on the knowledge of many leading thinkers in the medical, ethics, law and public policy fields.

The book, which stemmed from the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School’s conference in 2012, is available online on Amazon and MIT Press.