Laura Bothwell

About

Laura Bothwell is an ethicist and historian of public health. Her research examines social, historical, and ethical dimensions of epidemiology with a particular focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in global contexts. Her current book project examines how international and national policies have influenced trial rigor and ethics, protections of vulnerable trial subjects, and participant diversity in RCTs.

Bothwell teaches global health, public health ethics and the history of public health, and provides pre-departure ethics training in global health practice. She is also an assistant professor of epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health and an affiliated faculty member with the Yale Institute for Global Health.

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2016
• PhD in History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine, Columbia University, 2014
• MPhil in History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine, Columbia University, 2011
• MA in History of Science and Religion, Union Theological Seminary, 2006
• BA in History, College of St. Scholastica, 2004