Dr. Sean Philpott Joins Union Graduate College�s

Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership

Public Health Expert Also Chairs EPA Board

Schenectady, NY -- Sean Philpott, Ph.D., MSB, has joined the faculty of Union Graduate College�s Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership. �Recently, he was also appointed Chair of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Human Studies Review Board. �Founded in 2006, the board reviews the scientific and ethical aspects of research that are submitted to the EPA for regulatory purposes. Dr. Philpott was a founding member.
 
A public health expert, Philpott has conducted extensive HIV prevention and transmission research in Africa and Asia. He previously served as the Science and Ethics officer for the Global Campaign for Microbicides, based at PATH, an international nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of people around the world. In that capacity, he worked with organizations like UNAIDS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address key issues in the design and conduct of HIV prevention trials, including access to treatment for trial participants.
 
At Union Graduate College, Philpott is developing a �Research Ethics Track� that focuses on ethical and policy issues in laboratory and clinical research. He also helps to coordinate the Center's Advanced Certificate Program in Research Ethics, a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded program to train Central and Eastern European doctors, scientists, lawyers, and politicians to become research ethicists and advocates for human subject protections in former Eastern Bloc countries.
 
Dr. Philpott joins Union Graduate College�s Center for Bioethics at a time of rapid growth. The hybrid on-line/on-site program has doubled in size in just three years.

�Dr. Philpott brings a unique, highly regarded combination of scholarly research and real-world application in bioethics,� said Dr. Robert Baker, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership. �From HIV research to his current role with the EPA, Sean draws on first-hand experience to teach our students how the emerging field of bioethics is shaping public policy and biomedical research.�
 
A triple threat, Dr. Philpott holds degrees in microbiology, anthropology, and bioethics. He received his Master�s of Science in Bioethics from Union Graduate College, following a Ph.D. in Public Health Microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley and postdoctoral training in infectious diseases with the New York State Department of Health.