CAPPE

  • CSU
  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

Emerging and Converging Technologies Program:

    This program deals with risks and responsibilities relating to research into technologies that combine with or add to existing technologies, including ethical issues in bio/nanotechnology, computing and IT. More

Poverty Program:

    This program focuses on building an ethically and empirically based account of what development is, what standards it ought to use, and the like. Issues addressed include the measurement of poverty and global minimal labour standards. More

Health Program:

    This program will conduct research in relation to a range of interconnected ethical issues in the public health domain. More

Ecology Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Economy Program:

    This program focuses on a number of central ethical issues arising in the economic sphere, including corporate responsibility and economic corruption More

Security Program:

    This program focuses on the ethical dimensions of a range of current domestic and international security problems, including ethical issues pertaining to terrorism, crime, and humanitarian intervention. More


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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

PhD Candidate Adam Henschke Australia Talks on Privacy.

Public Ethics Radio

New Program:Joy Gordon on Iraq Sanctions

 

CAPPE Canberra Seminar

CAPPE Canberra Seminars will start for 2012 in February. Watch this space!

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Conferences

 

Workshop: Designing Just Institutions for Global Climate Governance (June 30 - 1 July). Click here for details

Past News



Craig Fry

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
Criminal Justice Ethics
Justice and the Human Good

craig.fry@mcri.edu.au
Telephone +61 (03) 9090-5216
Facsimile +61 (03) 9090-5212
View my cv (.pdf)

BSc (Hons) Monash, DrPH La Trobe

Biography

Craig Fry is a current NHMRC Australian Public Health Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-11) with a joint appointment at CAPPE and the Children's Bioethics Centre at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He received the 2003 Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics for his work on ethical issues in public health. His current research is examining how different models of identity and participation influence health research, practice and policy and the ethical implications of this.

Fields of special interest

  • Alcohol and drugs
  • Public health ethics
  • Research ethics and governance
  • Health research theory and methods
  • Identity and participation
  • Ethical and policy implications of addiction neuroscience

Editorial appointments

  • Joint Editor, Health Promotion Journal of Australia
  • Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

Publications

Book Chapters & Monographs

Fry CL. (In Press). 'What is harm reduction? An ethical perspective' in: T Rhodes (Ed.), Harm Reduction: Evidence, Impacts and Challenges. European Monitoring Center on Drugs and Drug Addiction, Scientific Monograph. Lisbon: EMCDDA, European Union.
Fry, CL. & Dietze, PM.,(2008) 'Alcohol and drugs in Australia: Social determinants and structural interventions' in H. Keleher & C. MacDougall (eds), Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
Fry, CL. & Cvetkovski, S., (2008) 'The regulation of drugs and drug use: public health and law enforcement' in HK. Heggenhougen (ed), Encyclopedia of Public Health. Elsevier.
Fry, CL., (2007) Making values and ethics explicit: A new code of ethics for the Australian alcohol and other drug field. Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia, Canberra www.adca.org.au/images/publications/ethics_code.pdf

Selected Journal Articles

Fry CL., (2009) ‘A descriptive social neuroethics is needed to reveal lived identities’. American Journal of Bioethics, 9(9), 16-17.
Fry CL., (2009) ‘How to build a theory about empirical bioethics: Acknowledging the limitations of empirical research’. American Journal of Bioethics, 9(6-7), 83-85.
Fry CL., (2008) ‘Research participation and internal normativity: Understanding why people participate’. American Journal of Bioethics, 8(10), 43-44.
Fry, CL., Hall, W., Ritter, A., & Jenkinson, R., (2006) 'The ethics of paying drug users who participate in research: A review and practical recommendations'. Journal of Empirical Research on Human research Ethics, 1(4), 21-36
Fry, CL., Cvetkovski, S. & Cameron, J., (2006) 'The place of supervised injecting rooms within harm reduction strategies: Evidence, ethics and policy'. Addiction, 101, 465-467
Fry, CL., (2002) ‘Injecting drug user attitudes towards rules for supervised injecting rooms: Implications for uptake’. International Journal of Drug Policy, 13(6), 471-476.
Fry, CL., & Dwyer, R., (2001) 'For love or money? An exploratory study of why injecting drug users participate in research'. Addiction, 96(9), 1319-1325