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 is a member of the DHHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP), Co-Chair of the SACHRP Subcommittee on Research Involving Children, Vice-Chair of the
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Insurance Trust, and a founding editor of the journal Applied Developmental Science. She chaired the American Psychological Association’s (
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) Ethics Code Task Force, the New York State Board for Psychology, the Ethics Committee of the Society for Research in Child Development, and the National Task Force on Applied Developmental Science; and is past member of the Ethics Working Group of the National Children’s Study, the NIMH 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 (Sage Publications), co-editor of 5 books including Ethical Issues in Mental Health Research with Children and Adolescents (Erlbaum Associates), author of over 100 publications in the areas of ethics and life-span development and of commissioned papers for the President’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission on relational ethics and vulnerable populations and on the ethics of suicide research for NIMH. With support from NICHD she has studied how to assess and enhance research consent capacity of adults with developmental disabilities. With funding from NSF and NIH she has developed research ethics instructional materials for undergraduates, graduate students, senior scientists, and IRBs and examined parent-child perspectives on the ethics of adolescent risk research. Her current federally funded projects include Mentoring the Responsible Conduct of Research (NIAID), Participant Perspectives on Drug Use and Related HIV Research (NIDA) and the Fordham Alcohol Prevention Program (NIAAA). In July 2001 she co-chaired the
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, NIMH, and Fordham Ethics Center sponsored national conference on Research Ethics for Mental Health Science Involving Ethnic Minority Children and Youth (American Psychologist, December 2002). She has developed assessment instruments to evaluate how teenagers and parents from different racial/ethnic backgrounds prepare for and react to racial discrimination, examined the validity of child abuse assessment techniques in institutional and forensic settings, and family attitudes toward involvement of adolescents in decisions to participate in pediatric cancer research.
