UW Law School professor R. Alta Charo has been named to three additional national boards that oversee bioethics-related issues.

– She has been named a member of the Institute of Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. The Institute, part of the National Academies, charges its board with developing the agenda for projects concerning improvement of the scientific basis for public health practice, and with providing advice to federal agencies.

– Charo has been selected for the Program Board of amFAR, the Foundation for Aids Research, one of the world’s leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to the support of HIV/AIDS research, prevention, treatment, and public-policy advocacy.

– Charo has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Women’s Bioethics Project, the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy think-tank devoted to ensuring that women’s concerns strongly influence ethical issues in health care and biotechnology.

Alta Charo is Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics, and holds a joint appointment with the School of Medicine and Public Health.

Submitted by on February 22, 2006

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