Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova

Birmingham Medical School
Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics & Law

Contact details

Email: d.wickins-drazilova@bham.ac.uk

Address: Institute of Clinical Sciences
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova is the Lead for Ethics and Law on the MBChB and Graduate Entry Course (GEC) programmes in Birmingham Medical School. She was appointed the Associate Professor in Biomedical Ethics & Law by the University of Birmingham in September 2021.

Dr Wickins-Drazilova has over twenty years’ experience of teaching, scholarship and research in the field of applied ethics, particulary medical ethics and other areas of ethics applied to healthcare.

Qualifications

PhD, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (CR), 2005
Fulbright Scholarship, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, USA, 2002
MA in Sociology and Environmental Humanities, School of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, CR, 2001
MA and BA in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, CR, 2000

Biography

I have over 20 years of experience teaching and researching various areas of applied ethics, such as medical ethics, healthcare ethics, research ethics and animal and environmental ethics. I studies philosophy and sociology and environmental studies and have a PhD on the topic of applied ethics.

Teaching

Postgraduate supervision

medical ethics, healthcare ethics, applied ethics

Other activities

Dr Wickins-Drazilova is the Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) for Birmingham Medical School, being passionate about tackling discrimination and unconscious bias in universities and other educational and healthcare settings.

Since 2018, she has been an active member of the Education Committee of the Institute of Medical Ethics, the main professional body in the UK that advises on Ethics and Law teaching and supports knowledge transfer nationally. She has taken on roles such as advising on the national curriculum of the subject, marking national essay competitions or judging national student debates: https://ime-uk.org/

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Nicholls, SG, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnar, D, Moreno, LA, Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I & Ahrens, W 2012, 'Determinants of children's sedentary behaviour vary according to maternal weight status', Public Health Nutrition, vol. 15, no. 8A, pp. 1556-1557. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012001917

Nicholls, SG, Williams, G, Wickins-Drazilova, D, Siani, A, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnar, D, Moreno, LA, Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T, Pigeot, I & Ahrens, W 2012, 'Public attitudes towards taxation and subsidisation as obesity intervention measures: Results from the IDEFICS parental questionnaire', Public Health Nutrition, vol. 15, no. 8A, pp. 1556. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980012001905

IDEFICS Consortium 2011, 'The ethics of evaluating obesity intervention studies on children', International Journal of Obesity, vol. 35 Suppl 1, pp. S24-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2011.32

Wickins-Drazilova, D & Williams, G 2010, 'Ethical and public policy aspects of childhood obesity: opinions of scientists working on an intervention study', Obesity Reviews, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 620-6. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00752.x

Wickins-Dražilová, D 2006, 'Zoo animal welfare', Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-005-4380-2

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Wickins-Drazilova, D & Slowther, A-M 2016, Ethical Decisions in Practice. in D Patrick & A Rathmell (eds), English. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 18-19.

Wickins-Drazilova, D & Williams, G 2010, Childhood Obesity: Ethics and Public Policy. in Epidemiology of Obesity in Children and Adolescents. Epidemiology and Public Health, Springer, pp. 7-20.

Wickins-Drazilova, D 2004, Respecting Welfare in Zoos. in Preprints of the 5th Eursafe Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. University of Leuven, pp. 236-9.

Chapter

Townend, D, Taylor, MJ, Wright, J & Wickins-Drazilova, D 2016, Privacy Interests in Biobanking: A Preliminary View on a European Perspective. in Principles and Practice in Biobank Governance. Taylor and Francis, pp. 137-159. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315602158-17

Wickins-Drazilova, D, Nicholls, S, Williams, G, Börnhorst, C, Grafström, L, De Henauw, S, Marild, S, Molnar, D, Moreno Aznar, LA, Pigeot, I, Siani, A, Tornaritis, M, Veidebaum, T & Ahrens, W 2010, Parental views on public-policy options regarding healthy eating. in Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges: EurSafe 2010 Bilbao, Spain 16-18 September 2010. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 184-188. https://doi.org/10.3921/978-90-8686-710-3

Wickins-Drazilova, D 2009, The European common agricultural policy, obesity, and organic farming. in Ethical Futures: Bioscience and Food Horizons. Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 70-76. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-673-1

Foreword/postscript

Wickins-Drazilova, D 2009, Preface. in The Governance of Genetic Information: Who decides. Cambridge University Press, pp. xi-xii. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511635274.001

Paper

Wickins-Drazilova, D, Widdows, H & Mullen, C 2006, 'Property Regulation in European Science, Ethics and Law: CD database and Conference DVD'.

Review article

Mackenzie, SC, Wickins-Drazilova, D & Wickins, J 2020, 'The ethics of fertility treatment for same-sex male couples: Considerations for a modern fertility clinic', European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, vol. 244, pp. 71-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2019.11.011

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