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Joseph Ali

Joseph Ali JD

Healthcare Management, Health Care Policy and Research
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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Mr. Ali’s scholarly work engages a range of ethics and regulatory challenges in domestic and international bioethics. Some of his recent and ongoing research activities have included projects that employ conceptual, qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the impact of international bioethics capacity development programs; to create and empirically test enhanced approaches for informed consent; to support ethics and regulatory oversight and guideline development for health services/systems research; and to study the emerging ethical, legal and societal implications of observational and interventional global mobile and digital health.

He previously served as Co-Lead of the Ethics & Regulatory Task-Force for the national Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (PCORnet) and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Ethics and Regulatory Work Group for the NIH/VA/DOD Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center. He manages the NIH-funded Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program, which, for the past 18 years, has provided training and supported collaborative institutional partnerships to advance research ethics capacity across 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. He is also Associate Director of a Fogarty-NIH program to establish a research ethics Master’s program at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in research ethics and bioethics & law at Johns Hopkins and serves on the editorial board of the journal Accountability in Research.