ROBERT HARRISON

Professor Harrison’s research interests focus on issues at the intersection of regulatory law and ethics in human subjects research, ethics and medical professionalism, and justice in international research.  He has published more than two dozen articles in academic and professional journals, and contributed chapters to three books.

His current research agenda is focused on regulatory and ethical issues related to decision making capacity and surrogate consent for cognitively impaired subjects, especially those with dementia.  His most recent work appears in Ethics and Human Research,  Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, and the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.  He is also a regular contributor to the Journal of Health Care Compliance, authoring a column on Ethics and Compliance. 

Professor Harrison is currently writng a book on the covert research on sexually transmitted diseases conducted by the U.S. Government in Guatemala on prisoners, orphans and the mentally ill from 1948 to 1952.