Effy Vayena

Effy Vayena, Ph.D., leads the newly-established Health Ethics and Policy Lab in the Department of Public Health at the EBPI, University of Zurich.
Previously, she worked at the World Health Organization (WHO), focusing on ethical and policy issues relating to reproductive health, and assisted reproduction as well as on health research ethics. She remains at consultant to WHO and is visiting faculty at the Harvard Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School.
Her current research focus is on ethical and policy questions in personalized medicine and digital health. She is particularly interested in the issues of ethical oversight of research uses of big data, ethical uses of big data for global health, as well as the ethics of citizen science. Using the ethics lens in innovative ways, her work aims to provide concrete policy recommendations and frameworks that facilitate the use of new technologies for a better and more just health.