Professor Adnan Hyder

Biography

Dr Adnan A Hyder is the Leon Robertson Faculty Development Chair and Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health; Director of the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Program in International Health; and joint faculty of the Johns Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute and the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. Dr Hyder co-directs the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty International Research Ethics Training Program for Africa. He has been teaching a course called 'Ethics of Public Health Practice in the Developing World' for the past five years.This course explores ethical issues of public health functions from health care delivery to research in the context of resource poor countries.He also teaches a course on summary measures of population health which focuses on burden of disease in low/middle income countries and explores issue of equity and social justice.

Dr Hyder's research focuses on empirical explorations focused on low and middle income countries, with special interest on issues of ethical review processes, standards of care, equity and justice. Dr Hyder was awarded a contract from the National Bioethics Advisory Commission to explore the opinions and attitudes of developing country researchers on ethical issues. This was the first time such empirical information - quantitative and qualitative – was made available from the developing world. Dr Hyder has received a grant from the World Health Organization, Geneva, to explore the ethical functions of national health research systems. Dr Hyder serves as international faculty of the Fogarty International Center-funded Program on Research Ethics in Bangladesh, and is also a board member of the ethics portfolio of the Scientific Development Network (SciDevNet). He is also a special adviser for research and ethics of the Pakistan Medical Research Council, Pakistan.

Dr Hyder has been working on issues related to ethics of research and medical practice for the past decade. He has served with the Council of International Organizations for Medical Sciences on three rounds of deliberations on the ethical implications of the Health-For-All policy of the World Health Organization. Dr Hyder has worked on inter-religious dialogue on bioethics and health with the University of Tubingen, Germany, to bring scientists, ethicists and philosophers from different religious backgrounds to one table to discuss important ethical issues. Dr Hyder has served as a consultant to international organisations such as the World Health Organization and the Global Forum for Health Research, and is actively involved in several projects studying inequities in health research worldwide.