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Christine Grady is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States, with a research portfolio primarily centered on medicine and health professions. Their work addresses various ethical issues in clinical and biomedical contexts, with a particular focus on public health, environmental and occupational health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their scholarly output prominently involves topics such as ethics in medical practice, ethics in clinical research, ethics and legal issues in pediatric healthcare, biomedical ethics and regulation, patient dignity and privacy, palliative care and end-of-life issues, and prenatal screening and diagnostics.

Among recent publications, Christine Grady has contributed to discussions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and related ethical challenges. Notable papers include:

  • "Covid-19: Ethical Challenges for Nurses" (2020, The Hastings Center Report)
  • "Nurses confronting the coronavirus: Challenges met and lessons learned to date" (2020, Nursing Outlook)
  • "COVID-19 vaccine trial ethics once we have efficacious vaccines" (2020, Science)
  • "Patient and Family Descriptions of Ethical Concerns" (2020, The American Journal of Bioethics)
  • "Experiences of Patients After Withdrawal From Cancer Clinical Trials" (2021, JAMA Network Open)

Christine Grady frequently publishes in several venues known for ethical and biomedical discourse, including:

  • The American Journal of Bioethics
  • AJOB Empirical Bioethics
  • Neurology
  • The Hastings Center Report
  • JAMA Network Open

The researcher collaborates regularly with colleagues such as Connie M. Ulrich, Saskia Hendriks, David Wendler, Marion Danis, and Annette Rid. These collaborations reflect a sustained engagement in bioethical inquiry and clinical research oversight.

Best Publications

  • What Makes Clinical Research Ethical

    Ezekiel J. Emanuel;David Wendler;Christine Grady

  • What Makes Clinical Research in Developing Countries Ethical? The Benchmarks of Ethical Research

    Ezekiel J. Emanuel;David Wendler;Jack Killen;Christine Grady

  • Ethical climate, ethics stress, and the job satisfaction of nurses and social workers in the United States.

    Connie Ulrich;Patricia O'Donnell;Carol Taylor;Adrienne Farrar

  • Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent

    Christine Grady

  • What's the price of a research subject? Approaches to payment for research participation.

    Neal Dickert;Christine Grady

  • The Limitations of “Vulnerability” as a Protection for Human Research Participants

    Carol Levine;Ruth Faden;Christine Grady;Dale E Hammerschmidt

  • Clinical Trials and Medical Care: Defining the Therapeutic Misconception

    Gail E Henderson;Larry R Churchill;Arlene M Davis;Michele M Easter

  • Risks and benefits of phase 1 oncology trials, 1991 through 2002.

    Elizabeth Horstmann;Mary S. McCabe;Louise Grochow;Seiichiro Yamamoto

  • How Much Is Life Worth: Cetuximab, Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, and the $440 Billion Question

    Tito Fojo;Christine Grady

  • Everyday ethics: ethical issues and stress in nursing practice.

    Connie M. Ulrich;Carol Taylor;Karen Soeken;Patricia O’Donnell

  • Misunderstanding in clinical research: distinguishing therapeutic misconception, therapeutic misestimation, and therapeutic optimism.

    Sam Horng;Christine Grady

  • Women's autonomy in health care decision-making in developing countries: a synthesis of the literature.

    Pauline E Osamor;Christine Grady

  • Money for Research Participation: Does It Jeopardize Informed Consent?

    Christine Grady

  • Enrolling Pregnant Women: Issues in Clinical Research

    Mary C. Blehar;Catherine Spong;Christine Grady;Sara F. Goldkind

  • A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature Evaluating IRBs: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn:

    Lura Abbott;Christine Grady

  • Broad Consent for Research With Biological Samples: Workshop Conclusions

    Christine Grady;Lisa Eckstein;Ben Berkman;Dan Brock

  • A Broader Understanding of Moral Distress.

    Stephen M. Campbell;Connie M. Ulrich;Christine Grady

  • Does Ethics Education Influence the Moral Action of Practicing Nurses and Social Workers

    Christine Grady;Marion Danis;Karen L. Soeken;Patricia O'Donnell

  • Covid-19: Ethical Challenges for Nurses.

    Georgina Morley;Christine Grady;Joan McCarthy;Connie M. Ulrich

  • More than the money: a review of the literature examining healthy volunteer motivations

    Leanne Stunkel;Christine Grady

  • Oversight of Human Participants Research: Identifying Problems To Evaluate Reform Proposals

    Ezekiel J. Emanuel;Anne Wood;Alan Fleischman;Angela Bowen

  • SHEA guideline for management of healthcare workers who are infected with hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and/or human immunodeficiency virus.

    David K. Henderson;Louise Dembry;Neil O. Fishman;Christine Grady

Frequent Co-Authors

David Wendler
David Wendler National Institutes of Health
Marion Danis
Marion Danis National Institutes of Health
Benjamin S. Wilfond
Benjamin S. Wilfond University of Washington
Karen L. Soeken
Karen L. Soeken University of Maryland, Baltimore
Henry T. Greely
Henry T. Greely Stanford University
Scott Y. H. Kim
Scott Y. H. Kim National Institutes of Health
Lori Wiener
Lori Wiener National Institutes of Health
Ruth R. Faden
Ruth R. Faden Johns Hopkins University
Joseph J. Fins
Joseph J. Fins Cornell University
Leslie G. Biesecker
Leslie G. Biesecker National Institutes of Health

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