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Rieke van der Graaf

Associate Professor

Strategic program(s):

Biography

Her research interests are global justice in international research, the integration of care and research, fair subject selection and the ethics of innovative research designs.

Research groups

Julius Center Research Program Cancer

Research aim

Our mission is to drive impactful innovation for cancer prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and care through interdisciplinary research, fostering collaboration among researchers across disciplines within the Julius Center and beyond.
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Health equity

Research aim

This research group aims to contribute to health equity from an ethical and epidemiological perspective. We identify and explain health inequalities and ethically evaluate whether identified health inequalities also lead to health inequity.
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Bioethics & health humanities

Research aim

The Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research department. Our expertise spans fields such as bioethics, health law, history of medicine, narrative medicine, health research governance, and patient involvement.
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Recent publications

Cardiac organoids do not warrant additional moral scrutiny Jannieke N Simons, Rieke van der Graaf, Johannes Jm van Delden
BMC Medical Ethics, 2024, vol. 25
What is a cure through gene therapy? Lieke Baas, Karina Meijer, Annelien L. Bredenoord, Rieke van der Graaf
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2024, vol. 27, p.489-496
The Ethics of Ethics Conferences Martine Charlotte de Vries, Rieke van der Graaf
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2024, vol. 24, p.41-44
Systematic scoping review of cluster randomised trials conducted exclusively in low-income and middle-income countries between 2017 and 2022 Cory E Goldstein, Yacine Marouf, Mira Johri, Julia F Shaw, Anand Sergeant, Stuart G Nicholls, Fernando Althabe, Rashida A Ferrand, Rieke van der Graaf, Karla Hemming, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Shaun Treweek, Vivian A Welch, Charles Weijer, Monica Taljaard
BMJ Open, 2024, vol. 14
Unfair knowledge practices in global health Seye Abimbola, Judith van de Kamp, Joni Lariat, Lekha Rathod, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Rieke van der Graaf, Himani Bhakuni
Health policy and planning, 2024
An ethics framework for the transition to an operational learning healthcare system Marieke J. Hollestelle, Rieke van der Graaf, Miriam C.J.M. Sturkenboom, Johannes J.M. van Delden
Learning Health Systems, 2024, vol. 8

External positions

Independent Ethical Advisor - Scientific Ethics Advisory Committee (SEAC) member malaria vaccine CAPTIVATE project - University Clinical Heidelberg

Member of the patient advisory board (MAC) - Advisor to the EU GEREMY project (Gene therapy and trearare inherited arrythmogenic cardiomyopathy) - EUPATI

Bestuurslid, ethicus - Bestuurslid - NVMETC

Teacher - Teaching Medical Ethics in course for young hematologists - European Hematology Association-CRTH

Reviewer - Revier - EU Marie Curie Doctoral Network

Lid ethicus Commissie Vaccinaties en Commissie Vitamine K bij pasgeborenen - Meewerken aan onafhankelijk wetenschappelijk advies om regering en parlement te adviseren - Gezondheidsraad

Ethicist - Member of DSMB - National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases