Emily E. Anderson, PhD, MPH
Project Director and Research Ethics Specialist
Dr. Anderson is project director of the Illinois Prevention Research Center and serves on the UIC Institutional Review Board #2. She received her doctorate in health care ethics from Saint Louis University in 2007, and also completed the Certificate in Empirical Research Methods in Descriptive Ethics, focusing on both quantitative and qualitative methodology. She received her MPH from UIC in 2000.
As IHRP's research ethics specialist, Dr. Anderson provides consultation regarding research ethics and the protection of human research subjects to IHRP investigators developing grant proposals, IRB applications, and related study materials.
Research Interests
Research ethics, specifically research with vulnerable populations; ethical issues related to emerging biotechnologies; ethical issues in public health and health disparities; community-based participatory research
Recent and Noteworthy Publications
Anderson EE. A qualitative study of non-affiliated, non-scientist institutional review board members. Account Res. 2006;13(2):135-155.
Anderson EE. Direct-to-consumer personal genome services: need for more oversight. Virtual Mentor. 2009;11:701-708.
Anderson EE. “Ethics in Public Health,” “Jenner, Edward,” “Pasteur, Louis,” and “Reed, Walter.” In: Boslaugh S, ed. Encyclopedia of Epidemiology. Sage Publications; 2007.
Anderson EE. Parental consent for pediatric research. Virtual Mentor. 2006;8(10):667-671.
Anderson EE, Black LJ, Bostick NA. Preventing tragedy: Balancing physicians’ ethical obligations to patients and the public. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2007;1(Suppl 1):S38-S42.
Anderson EE, DuBois JM. The need for evidence-based research ethics: A review of the substance abuse literature. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2007;86(2-3):95-105.
Anderson EE, Iltis AS. Assessing and improving research participants’ understanding of risk: Potential lessons from the literature on physician-patient risk communication. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2008;3(3):27-37.
Anderson, EE, Sieber JE. The Need for Evidence-Based Research Ethics. Am J Bioeth. 2009 Nov;9(11):60-2.
Black L, Anderson EE. Physicians, patients, and confidentiality: The role of physicians in electronic health records. (Open Peer Commentary.) Am J Bioeth. 2007;7(3):50-51.
DuBois JM, Anderson EE. Attitudes toward death criteria and organ donation among health care personnel and the general public. Prog Transplant. 2006;16(1):65-73.
DuBois JM, Dueker JM, Anderson EE, Campbell J. The development and assessment of an NIH-funded research ethics training program. Acad Med. 2008;83(6):596-603.
Levy SR, Anderson EE, Issel LM, Willis MA, Dancy BL, Jacobson KM, et al. Using multi-level, multi-source needs assessment data for planning community interventions. Health Promot Pract. 2004;5(1): 59-68.
Contact Info
Institute for Health Research and Policy
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 275)
550 Westside Research Office Bldg.
1747 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608