Audrey R. Chapman, Ph.D., M. Div., S.T.M.
Professor
UConn Health Center Auxiliary/Joseph M. Healey, Jr. Chair in Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law & Ethics
A.B., Wellesley College
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
M.Div., New York Theological Seminary
S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary
Brief Chronology of Professional Career
Dr. Chapman began her professional career as a faculty member in the Political Science Department at Barnard College. She then spent several years teaching and conducting applied social science research on development issues at institutions in Ghana, Lebanon, and Kenya. When she returned to the U.S., she assumed a position directing peace, justice, and human rights programs for the United Church Board for World Ministries, the international agency of the United Church of Christ, attended seminary, and was ordained as a minister in the denomination. Prior to her appointment at the UConn Health Center, she spent 15 years on the staff of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as the Director of the Science and Human Rights Program; the founding Director and then Senior Associate for Ethics of the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion; and for several years, the Co-Director of the AAAS initiative on Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest.
Dr. Chapman is the author, coauthor, or editor of sixteen books and numerous articles and reports dealing with ethical, human rights, theological, and intellectual property issues related to health, genetic developments, and pharmaceuticals. She also has published works on economic, social and cultural rights; health care reform; transitional justice; reconciliation; and development issues.
As a Professor in the Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics and the first Healey Endowed Chair, she is responsible for developing medical humanities and health ethics programs at the UConn Health Center. She is currently a member of the University of Connecticut Embryonic Stem Cell Oversight Committee, the John Dempsey Hospital Ethics Committee, and the Gladstein Human Rights Committee and the Executive Committee for the Program on Science and Human Rights of the Human Rights Institute of the University of Connecticut. In addition, she serves on the Expert Genomics Advisory Panel and its Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Subcommittee of the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the State of Connecticut Stem Cell Ethics Committee. She also is a member of the Committee on Medical Humanities of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, a Board Member, of the Society of Christian Ethics, and a member of the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights’ Expert Working Group on the Development of Indicators for Monitoring Human Rights.
Dr. Chapman will be teaching courses dealing with health and human development, health ethics, spirituality and medicine, health and human rights, and the ethical dimensions of genetic developments in the Medical School and the MPH Program.
While at AAAS, she directed or co-directed a series of projects related to the right to health, stem cells, inheritable genetic modifications, and behavioral genetics. She also worked on a wide range of issues related to economic, social and cultural rights, some in close cooperation with the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and in collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to the Highest Attainable Level of Health. She continues to be involved with several UN related initiatives to develop indicators and to improve the monitoring of economic, social and cultural rights.
She is currently developing new projects on the following topics: barriers to equitable access to genetic testing and services in Connecticut; ethical dimensions of embryonic stem cell research; and the institutional requirements for promoting the right to health.
Books
Audrey R. Chapman and Hugo Van der Merwe, Truth and Reconciliation: Did the TRC Deliver? University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming, 2007.
Erik Parens, Audrey R. Chapman, and Nancy Press, eds., Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel, eds., Designing Our Descendants: Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Audrey R. Chapman and Sage Russell, eds., Core Obligations: Building a Framework for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Intersentia, 2002.
Audrey R. Chapman, Unprecedented Choices: Religious Ethics at the Frontiers of Genetic Science, Augsburg Fortress Press, 1999.
Articles
Audrey R. Chapman, “Truth Commissions and Inter-Group Forgiveness: The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 1 (winter 2007).
Amanda Brewster, Audrey Chapman, and Stephen Hansen, “Facilitating Humanitarian Access to Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Innovation,” Innovation Strategy Today, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005, pp. 203-216; reprinted in UNCTAD’s African Technology Development Forum.
Timothy Caulfield and Audrey R. Chapman, “Human Dignity as a Criterion for Science Policy,” PLOS Medicine, Vol. 2, Issue 8 (August 2005), pp. 0101-0103.
Audrey R. Chapman, “Ethical Implications of Prolonged Lives,” Theology Today 60 (January 2004), pp. 479-496.
Audrey R. Chapman, “Should We Design Our Descendants?” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 23 (Fall/Winter 2003), pp. 199-224.
Audrey R. Chapman, “The Human Rights Implications of Intellectual Property Protection,” Journal of International Economic Law, 5 (December 2002), pp. 861-882.
Mark S. Frankel and Audrey R. Chapman, “Genetic Technologies: Facing Inheritable Genetic Modifications,” Science, 292, 18 May 2001, pp. 1303-1304.
Reports
Mark S. Frankel, and Audrey R. Chapman, Human Inheritable Genetic Modification: Assessing Scientific, Ethical, Religious and Policy Implications, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000.
Audrey R. Chapman, Mark S. Frankel, and Michelle Garfinkel, Stem Cell Research and Applications: Monitoring the Frontiers of Biomedical Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999.
Division of Medical Humanities, Health Law & Ethics
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6325
Farmington, CT 06030-6325
Phone: (860) 679-1590
Fax: (860) 679-5464
Email: achapman@uchc.edu
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