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Putting Financial Compensation for Research in a Different Risk Framework

August 15, 2025

Policy recommendations for implementing registries to minimize over-volunteering in Phase I clinical trials.

July 30, 2025

Medical research participants deserve to be paid well

July 21, 2025

Jill A. Fisher presented “Challenging Allergies: The Search for a Magic Bullet for Pediatric Food Allergies”

June 26, 2025
The presentation was part of MCL Grand Rounds, hosted by the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, on June 3. ▶️ Watch the recording of “Challenging Allergies.”

Jill Fisher Awarded Spring 2025 Making a Difference Grant from The Greenwall Foundation

June 26, 2025
Jill Fisher was awarded a Spring 2025 Making a Difference Grant from The Greenwall Foundation for her project “Challenging Fear of Anaphylaxis: An Ethical Framework for Implementing Oral Food Challenges in Allergy Clinical Practice.” Fisher said, “There is a real-world need for practical solutions to bioethics dilemmas in pediatric food...

Pursuing Fair and Just Compensation for Research Participants: An Open Letter to the Research Ethics Community

May 28, 2025

Pursuing a “normal” life of food: Families’ experiences of pediatric food allergy clinical trials

May 28, 2025

Fisher Co-Author on Open Letter on Research Participant Compensation

May 28, 2025
Jill A. Fisher is a co-author, with colleagues, of a new editorial in The American Journal of Bioethics. The authors consider the question of “undue influence on potential research participants to enroll in studies.” They highlight the “‘payment conservatism'” of many oversight bodies. The authors suggest that minimally compensating research...

A “Normal” Life of Food: Fisher on Families’ Clinical Trail Experiences

May 28, 2025
Jill A. Fisher is the author of a new article in Social Science & Medicine. Fisher analyzes findings from her ethnographic research, including semi-structured interviews. Based on her findings, Fisher describes parents’ and children’s experiences in food allergy clinical trials. Fisher argues that “affluent parents willingly accept a form of...

Implementing a Global Ethics Charter to Protect US Healthy Volunteers

January 30, 2025