Dr Joseph Millum
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Biography
Dr. Millum is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at St Andrews University. He also serves as a consultant to the World Health Organisation and he is the Chairperson of the International Society for Priorities in Health. Prior to arriving at St Andrews, Dr. Millum worked at the US National Institutes of Health for 15 years - in the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics and the Fogarty International Center.
Research areas
Dr. Millum's research spans various topics in bioethics and applied ethics. These include: (1) Health care priority-setting; (2) Health research priority-setting; (3) Consent; (4) The ethics of research with human participants; (5) Bioethical theory; (6) The ethics of parenthood. His books include Global Justice and Bioethics (2012), The Moral Foundations of Parenthood (2018), Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness (2020), and A Theory of Bioethics (2021). Full texts of Dr. Millum's articles are available at josephmillum.com.
PhD supervision
- David MacDonald
Selected publications
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Open access
Should health research funding be proportional to the burden of disease?
Millum, J., 1 Feb 2023, In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics. 22, 1, p. 76-99 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Ethical considerations in international clinical trial site selection
Miller, J. & Millum, J., 6 Apr 2022, In: BMJ Global Health. 7, 4, 5 p., e008012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How to identify priority questions for bioethics research
Millum, J., Jan 2022, In: American Journal of Bioethics. 22, 1, p. 17-18 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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The scope of consent
Millum, J., 2 Jul 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Philosophical Quarterly. Advance articles, pqac029.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review