Audrey R Chapman

Professor, Public Health Sciences

Department of Public Health Sciences

Research Area(s) of Interest:  

Humanities and bioethics

I teach a series of courses, three regularly: Public Health Ethics, Health and Human Rights, Reproductive Ethics and Rights and two intermittently: Comparative Health Systems and Comparing Countries’ Responses to the Pandemic. I chair the Department’s Curriculum Committee and the UConn Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, and I serve on a variety of committee’s  including the John Dempsey Hospital Ethics Committee, the UConn Health Merit Appeals Committee, and several Human Rights Institute’s committees located at Storrs. My current research is focused on the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable communities, and I have published on a variety of health, stem cells, and health and human rights topics.​

I am trained both as an ethicist and a social scientist with a variety of graduate degrees in those subject areas and continue to work in both of those areas. I spent some ten years living and conducting research in Africa and the Middle East which has shaped my global perspective.​

I am a board member of the Connecticut ACLU. I am a Deacon at the Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford (and also an ordained UCC minister). I serve on the editorial board of several journals including Health and Human Rights and the Journal of Human Rights. I am a member of the State of Maryland stem cell research review committee. I have previously served on several UN and UNESCO human rights committees.​

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