Victoria Koszowski
Yale-Hastings Scholar
8/20/12 – 9/1/12

Victoria Koszowski, MBE is a PhD candidate at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Victoria has a decade of corporate experience in the pharmaceutical industry, where she worked as a pharmacovigilance policy writer. She received her Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Global Framework Fellowship, bringing her to Ghana to work with sickle-cell children at a hospital in Kumasi. This experience was life-changing and contributed to Victoria's current research interests, which are corporate philanthropy and global healthcare and policy. Victoria's PhD project is titled: "An Ethical Analysis of Retention Strategies for Discouraging the Flight of Human Capital in Health Care."   

Katie Watson
Yale-Hastings Scholar
4/15/12 – 4/21/12

Katie Watson, JD, is the Editor of Atrium, a healthcare magazine started by professional & graduate students at Yale in 2007. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University.

Joseph Balog
Yale-Hastings Scholar
3/19/12 – 4/27/12

Dr. Joseph E. Balog received his doctoral degree in health education from the University of Maryland. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Science at The College at Brockport, State University of New York where he has also served as Chair of the department and as the Associate Director of the Child and Adolescent Stress Management Institute. As a member of the American Association of Health Education Ethics Committee, he worked to established ethical standards for the field of health education. He also served on the Joint Committee for the Development of Graduate Level Preparation Standards sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education and the American Association for Health Education to establish competencies, including ethical competencies, which are used throughout the country for certification of professionals and for accreditation of professional health education programs. In addition to teaching and service activities, he has been active in research and his publications have addressed the areas of ethics, public health and health education. One of his recent works, “The Moral Justification for a Compulsory Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Program,” was published in The American Journal of Public Health, the premier journal in public health.

Daniel Brauer
Yale-Hastings Scholar
3/5/12- 3/25/12

Daniel Brauer is Research Assistant at the Center for Medical Law, University of Göttingen (Germany). He is Project Coordinator for the sub-project on family and medical law of the Center’s research project on “Autonomy and Trust in Modern Medicine.”

Sheelagh McGuinness, LLB, MA, PhD
Yale-Hastings Scholar
2/6/12 – 3/4/12

Sheelagh McGuinness is University Fellow at the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on ethical and legal issues related to regulation of embryos in reproduction.  

John Coggon
Yale-Hastings Scholar
2/6/12 – 3/4/12

John Coggon is a research fellow in interdisciplinary bioethics at the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation at the University of Manchester, UK. His work focuses on questions in legal, moral, and political theory. He has published works on various issues in law and bioethics. The principal focus of his current work is on public health law and ethics, with his publications on the subject including his book "What Makes Health Public?" (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Mirko Daniel Garasic
Yale-Hastings Scholar
11/15/10 – 2/15/11

Dr. Garasic is an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University. His current research focuses on human enhancement, biopolitics and medical ethics. His doctoral work took him to three continents, first as a visiting scholar at the Ethox Centre, Oxford; then as a scholar at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; and finally  (on a Fulbright Scholarship) as a Yale/Hastings Fellow.

Celia Kitzinger
Yale-Hastings Scholar
10/24/11 - 10/28/11

Professor Celia Kitzinger is a social psychologist with a long history of research on gender, sexuality and health, including conversation-analytic research on counseling interactions for women traumatized by childbirth and on heteronormativity in doctor-patient interactions. She began researching issues around brain injury (collaboratively with Professor Jenny Kitzinger at Cardiff University) after their sister, Polly, suffered profound brain injuries in a car crash in 2009.

Iolanda Severino
Yale-Hastings Scholar
8/28/11 – 9/15/11

Iolanda Severino is a lawyer admitted to the Bar of Milan (Italy), Ph.D. and research fellow in Administrative Law at the Catholic University of Milan. She is currently working as a researcher at Istituto Auxologico Italiano where she is involved in the research project “Biobanks: Dialogue and Care”, financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. She is carrying out a comparative study on the legal and administrative aspects of biobanking.