Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova

Birmingham Medical School
Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics & Law

Contact details

Email
d.wickins-drazilova@bham.ac.uk
Address
Institute of Clinical Sciences
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova is the Lead for Ethics and Law on the MBChB and Graduate Entry Course (GEC) programmes in Birmingham Medical School. She was appointed the Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics & Law by the University 麻豆精选 in September 2021.

Dr Wickins-Drazilova has over twenty years’ experience of teaching, scholarship and research in the field of applied ethics, particulary medical ethics and other areas of ethics applied to healthcare.

Qualifications

  • PhD, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (CR), 2005
  • Fulbright Scholarship, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, USA, 2002
  • MA in Sociology and Environmental Humanities, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, CR, 2001
  • MA and BA in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, CR, 2000

Biography

I have over 20 years of experience teaching and researching various areas of applied ethics, such as medical ethics, healthcare ethics, research ethics and animal and environmental ethics. I studies philosophy and sociology and environmental studies and have a PhD on the topic of applied ethics.聽

Teaching

Postgraduate supervision

medical ethics, healthcare ethics, applied ethics

Other activities

Dr Wickins-Drazilova is the Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) for Birmingham Medical School, being passionate about tackling discrimination and unconscious bias in universities and other educational and healthcare settings.

Since 2018, she has been an active member of the Education Committee of the Institute of Medical Ethics, the main professional body in the UK that advises on Ethics and Law teaching and supports knowledge transfer nationally. She has taken on roles such as advising on the national curriculum of the subject, marking national essay competitions or judging national student debates:

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Nicholls, SG, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnar, D, Moreno, LA, Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I & Ahrens, W 2012, '', Public Health Nutrition, vol. 15, no. 8A, pp. 1556-1557.

Nicholls, SG, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnar, D, Moreno, LA, Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I & Ahrens, W 2012, '', Public Health Nutrition, vol. 15, no. 8A, pp. 1556.

IDEFICS Consortium 2011, '', International Journal of Obesity, vol. 35 Suppl 1, pp. S24-9.

Wickins-Drazilova, D & Williams, G 2010, '', Obesity Reviews, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 620-6.

Wickins-Dra啪ilov谩, D 2006, '', Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 27-36.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Wickins-Drazilova, D & Slowther, A-M 2016, . in D Patrick & A Rathmell (eds), English. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 18-19.

Wickins-Drazilova, D & Williams, G 2010, . in Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents. Epidemiology and Public Health, Springer, pp. 7-20.

Wickins-Drazilova, D 2004, . in Preprints of the 5th Eursafe Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. University of Leuven, pp. 236-9.

Chapter

Townend, D, Taylor, MJ, Wright, J & Wickins-Drazilova, D 2016, . in Principles and Practice in Biobank Governance. Taylor and Francis, pp. 137-159.

Wickins-Drazilova, D, Nicholls, S, Williams, G, B枚rnhorst, C, Grafstr枚m, L, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnar, D, Moreno Aznar, LA, Pigeot, I, Siani, A, Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T & Ahrens, W 2010, . in Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges: EurSafe 2010 Bilbao, Spain 16-18 September 2010. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 184-188.

Wickins-Drazilova, D 2009, . in Ethical Futures: Bioscience and Food Horizons. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 70-76.

Foreword/postscript

Wickins-Drazilova, D 2009, . in The Governance of Genetic Information: Who decides. Cambridge University Press, pp. xi-xii.

Paper

Wickins-Drazilova, D, Widdows, H & Mullen, C 2006, ''.

Review article

Mackenzie, SC, Wickins-Drazilova, D & Wickins, J 2020, '', European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, vol. 244, pp. 71-75.