Research Interests: High risk behaviors in adolescents, ethnic minority development, college drinking intervention programs, ability of adults with mental retardation to consent to research and treatment, values of adults with drug addiction and HIV risk, nutritional assessment of female drug users, mentoring and moral development in the responsible conduct of research, environmental health ethics.
Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D., Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology and Director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education (www.fordhamethics.org) is Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Human Subjects Review Board (HSRB), past member of the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) and Co-Chair of the SACHRP Subcommittee on Research Involving Children, and a founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science. Dr. Fisher chaired the American Psychological Association’s Ethics Code Task Force and the New York State Licensing Board for Psychology and served on the National Institutes of Mental Health Data Safety and Monitoring Board, and the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Clinical Research Involving Children. Dr Fisher is author of Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists 2nd Edition (Sage Publications), co-editor of 7 books including The Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural Populations and Communities and The Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science (Sage Publications), and author of over 100 theoretical and empirical publications in the areas of ethics in medical and social science research and practice and life span development. Her federally funded research programs focus on ethical issues and well-being of vulnerable populations including ethnic minority youth and families (NSF), active drug users (NIDA), drinking prevention programs for varsity college athletes (Department of Education) and college students (NIAAA), and informed consent involving adults with mental retardation (NICHD), and mentoring the responsible conduct of research (NINDS, ORI).
