PD Dr. Ruth Horn

Associate Professor in Ethics at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society, University of Augsburg

Ruth Horn is Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethics and History of Health in Society (IEHHS), University of Augsburg and Associate Professor at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on ethical questions raised by medical practices and new technologies in different socio-cultural and political contexts (namely France, Germany and England). Her research interests range from ethical issues of data-driven health technologies - with a specific focus on genomics and prenatal testing - to ethical questions at the end of life. She is the president of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME), lead of the UK-FR+ Genomics and Ethics Network (GENE) and member of a variety of international committees (German Human Genome-Phenome Archive; BSGM Fetal Genome Group, UK; Ethics Committee of the CNRS, FR; Oxford Tropical Research Ethics Committee, UK; Clinical Ethics Committee Augsburg, DE;…). She has been involved in a number of policy documents, such as lately the UK Joint Committee on Genomics in Medicine’s Ethical Guidelines on Prenatal Diagnosis.