Award Amount
$413,912
Award Number
Project Dates
07/01/2000 to 12/31/2003
Project Links
Principal Investigator
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD (Center for Bioethics)
Co-Investigators
Susan M. Wolf, JD (Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences) Dianne Bartels, PhD (Center for Bioethics)
This grant was awarded to the Center for Bioethics and Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences to complete a comprehensive investigation of the ethical, legal, and policy issues in the use of genetic information in private and public disability insurance and to recommend policies based on the findings.
Project outcomes
- A symposium entitled "Genetic Testing and Disability Insurance" in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Summer 2007)
- A public conference on "Genetic Testing and the Future of Disability Insurance: Ethics, Law & Policy" held on March 14, 2003