Research Ethics Network

Our Research Ethics Network (REN) is composed of those who have completed one of our courses or served on a faculty panel or have contributed in other ways to promoting a research ecosystem that upholds ethical and responsible practices. By being affiliated with our Research Ethics Network, you will receive information about upcoming events and be invited to provide recommendations to assist in strengthening our UC San Diego Research Ethics Program.

Join the Research Ethics Network for a list of opportunities for engagement in the Research Ethics Community and to add your skills to our directory.

Please contact us if would like to discuss if your ideas for capacity building within the research ethics community.

Hortense Gerardo, PhD

Director, Anthropology, Performance, & Technology (APT) Program, Jacobs School of Engineering

Workshop Title: Seeing you Seeing Me Seeing You: An Interactive Workshop on Unconscious Bias

Research Ethics Program Special Topics Workshop for the Ethical Challenges of Research Series presented on October 11, 2023
Meelim Kim, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science

Seminar Title: The Digital Therapeutics Real World Evidence Framework: An approach fro guiding evidence-based DTx design, development, testing, and monitoring

Research Ethics Program Cultivating Conversations presented on January 16, 2024
Raeanne Moore, PhD

Professor In Residence, Psychiatry

Seminar Title: Digital phenotyping in psychiatry: Exploring tensions between privacy and data sharing requirements

Research Ethics Program Cultivating Conversations presented on July 18, 2023
Mady Paley

Senior Compliance Analyst

Workshop Title: Creating Safe Research Spaces through an EDI Lens

Research Ethics Program Special Topics Workshop for the Ethical Challenges of Research Series presented on June 14, 2023 (co-presented with Devon Tolliver)
Olga Perski, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - UC San Diego & Tampere University (Finland)

Seminar Title: Open Science practices to advance digital health/AI research; Balancing ethical and legal hopes and fears

Research Ethics Program Cultivating Conversations presented on September 19, 2023
Laurel Riek, PhD

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Seminar Title: Cognitive and socially assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia

Research Ethics Program Cultivating Conversations presented on February 20, 2024
Allegra Swift, MLIS

Scholarly Communications Librarian

Workshop Title: Scholarly Communications and Metrics

Research Ethics Program Special Topics Workshop for the Ethical Challenges of Research Series presented on August 9, 2023
Devon Tolliver

Director, Events/EDI Program, Office of Research and Innovation

Workshop Title: Creating Safe Research Spaces through an EDI Lens

Research Ethics Program Special Topics Workshop for the Ethical Challenges of Research Series presented on June 14, 2023 (Co-presented with Mady Paley)
Jon Wade, PhD

Professor Practice, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Seminar Title: Convergent Systems Engineering: Ethical Sustainability

Research Ethics Program Special Topics Workshop Series presented on February 7, 2023
Zvinka Zlatar, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Seminar Title: The potential of digital health to improve brain health in older adults

Research Ethics Program Cultivating Conversations presented on October 17, 2023