What Do Patients and Publics Consider Ethical? Insights from Deliberative Workshops on Pathogen Genomics
Online Webinar: 23 Apr 26

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What Do Patients and Publics Consider Ethical? Insights from Deliberative Workshops on Pathogen Genomics

📅 Date: Thursday, 23rd April 2026
🕛 Time: 12-1pm (GMT)
📍 Location: Online (via Microsoft Teams)

Guest speaker:

Dr Stephanie Johnson, Senior Researcher in Ethics, University of Oxford.

Stephanie Johnson is a Senior Researcher in Ethics at the Ethox Centre and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on the ethics of genomics and infectious disease, with a particular interest in infectious disease transmission and control and relational bioethics in public health. She co-leads a module for Oxford Population Health’s MSc in Clinical Trials and supervises DPhil and undergraduate research. A member of the GLIDE Collaborative, Stephanie held a Wellcome Trust Fellowship (2020-2023) on the ethics of tracking microbes.

She collaborates with Oxford’s Big Data Institute and advises policy makers at institutions like Genomics England and the Africa CDC. Her work blends empirical research with theoretical analysis.

Early Career Researcher presentation:

Wastewater surveillance unveils the impact of mass gatherings on antimicrobial resistance after the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia

Changzhi Wang, Environmental microbiologist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Changzhi Wang is an environmental microbiologist focused on wastewater-based surveillance and antimicrobial resistance. Changzhi integrates bioinformatic methods including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and culture-based genomics to track pathogens and ARGs in complex environment systems, including mass gatherings and aircraft sewage.

TARGetAMR Monthly Webinar Series:

The TARGetAMR webinar series takes place each month at lunchtime for one hour and participants discuss a specific research topic at each meeting.

The research topic of interest is presented at each meeting, followed by a Q&A session which usually leads into an in-depth discussion.

Each talk is supported by an Early Career Researcher (ECR) lightning presentation from an ECR across our TARGetAMR network.

The meetings are online [virtual meetings- via Teams] and are recorded for any members of our community that are unable to join us, which are then made available to view via the TARGetAMR website and YouTube channel.

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