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Overview

Nina Hallowell is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine, ethics, and technology, with significant contributions to fields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, health informatics, genetics, physiology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work spans multiple specialized topics, including:

  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • BRCA Gene Mutations in Cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Key publications by Nina Hallowell include:

  • "I don't think people are ready to trust these algorithms at face value": trust and the use of machine learning algorithms in the diagnosis of rare disease (2022), published in BMC Medical Ethics
  • The impact of artificial intelligence on the person-centred, doctor-patient relationship: some problems and solutions (2023), published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • COVID-19 and Contact Tracing Apps: Ethical Challenges for a Social Experiment on a Global Scale (2020), published in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
  • The ethical challenges of artificial intelligence-driven digital pathology (2022), published in The Journal of Pathology Clinical Research
  • Governing AI-Driven Health Research: Are IRBs Up to the Task? (2021), published in Ethics & Human Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Angeliki Kerasidou
  • Francis McKay
  • Federica Lucivero
  • Darren Treanor
  • Anneke Lucassen

Publications by Nina Hallowell often appear in distinguished academic venues such as:

  • European Journal of Human Genetics
  • SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
  • The Journal of Pathology Clinical Research
  • BMC Medical Ethics
  • Journal of Medical Ethics

Their research output demonstrates a strong emphasis on the ethical dimensions of emerging technologies in healthcare, particularly focusing on artificial intelligence applications and their societal impacts, patient trust, and regulatory challenges.

Best Publications

  • Doing the right thing: genetic risk and responsibility

    Nina Hallowell

  • ‘I can't do any serious exercise’: barriers to physical activity amongst people of Pakistani and Indian origin with Type 2 diabetes

    J Lawton;N Ahmad;L Hanna;M Douglas

  • Attentional bias to threat: roles of trait anxiety, stressful events, and awareness.

    Karin Mogg;Brendan P. Bradley;Nina Hallowell

  • Balancing autonomy and responsibility: the ethics of generating and disclosing genetic information

    Nina Hallowell;Claire Foster;Ros Eeles;A. Ardern-Jones

  • Family Communication and Genetic Counseling: The Case of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer.

    Josephine Green;Martin Richards;Frances Murton;Helen Statham

  • 'We should change ourselves, but we can't': accounts of food and eating practices amongst British Pakistanis and Indians with type 2 diabetes.

    Julia Lawton;Naureen Ahmad;Lisa Hanna;Margaret Douglas

  • Guilt, blame and responsibility: men's understanding of their role in the transmission of BRCA1/2 mutations within their family.

    Nina Hallowell;Audrey Arden-Jones;Ros Eeles;Claire Foster

  • Accommodating risk: Responses to BRCA1/2 genetic testing of women who have had cancer

    N Hallowell;C Foster;R Eeles;A Ardern-Jones

  • Communication about genetic testing in families of male BRCA1/2 carriers and non-carriers: patterns, priorities and problems.

    N. Hallowell;A. Ardern-Jones;R. Eeles;C.L. Foster

  • Reflections on Research: the realities of doing research in the social sciences

    Nina Hallowell;Julia Lawton;Susan Gregory

  • An investigation of patients’ motivations for their participation in genetics-related research

    Nina Hallowell;S. Cooke;G. Crawford;A. Lucassen

  • Contextualising Accounts of Illness: Notions of Responsibility and Blame in White and South Asian Respondents' Accounts of Diabetes Causation.

    Julia Lawton;Naureen Ahmad;Elizabeth A. Peel;Nina Hallowell

  • Women's need for information before attending genetic counselling for familial breast or ovarian cancer: a questionnaire, interview, and observational study.

    Nina Hallowell;F Murton;H Statham;J M Green

  • Perceptions and experiences of taking oral hypoglycaemic agents among people of Pakistani and Indian origin: qualitative study

    Julia Lawton;Naureen Ahmad;Nina Hallowell;Lisa Hanna

  • Genetic testing for women previously diagnosed with breast/ovarian cancer: examining the impact of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation searching.

    N Hallowell;C Foster;A Ardern-Jones;R Eeles

  • "Talking About Chance": The Presentation of Risk Information During Genetic Counseling for Breast and Ovarian Cancer.

    Nina Hallowell;Helen Statham;Frances Murton;Jo Green

  • ‘You don’t want to lose your ovaries because you think ‘I might become a man' ’. Women's perceptions of prophylactic surgery as a cancer risk management option

    Nina Hallowell

  • Men's decision-making about predictive BRCA1/2 testing: the role of family.

    N. Hallowell;A. Ardern-Jones;R. Eeles;C. Foster

  • A qualitative study of the information needs of high-risk women undergoing prophylactic oophorectomy.

    Nina Hallowell

  • Incorporating genomics into breast and prostate cancer screening: assessing the implications

    Susmita Chowdhury;Tom Dent;Nora Pashayan;Alison Hall

  • COVID-19 and Contact Tracing Apps: Ethical Challenges for a Social Experiment on a Global Scale.

    Federica Lucivero;Nina Hallowell;Stephanie Johnson;Barbara Prainsack;Barbara Prainsack

Frequent Co-Authors

Maggie Watson
Maggie Watson University of Strathclyde
Claire Foster
Claire Foster University of Southampton
Rosalind A. Eeles
Rosalind A. Eeles Institute of Cancer Research
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Michael Parker
Michael Parker University of Oxford
Ari Haukkala
Ari Haukkala University of Helsinki
Bettina Meiser
Bettina Meiser University of New South Wales
Barbara Prainsack
Barbara Prainsack University of Vienna
Beth Y. Karlan
Beth Y. Karlan University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine L. Tucker
Katherine L. Tucker University of Massachusetts Lowell

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