Effy Vayena

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Effy Vayena
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Born
🎓 Alma mater	University of Minnesota
💼 Occupation

Eftychia ("Effy") Vayena is a Greek and Swiss bioethicist. She holds the Chair of Bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, ETH Zurich, since September 2017. She specializes in big data and digital health ethics, personalised medicine ethics, research ethics, ethics of genomics, health data governance and digital bioethics. She co-directs the Stavros Niarchos Bioethics Academy with Professor Jeff Kahn, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Education

Vayena received a BA in History from the University of Athens, Greece; a MSc in History of Science, Technology & Medicine from Imperial College, University of London; and a PhD in Social History of Medicine from the University of Minnesota, under the supervision of John Eyler. During her doctoral work, she was also a visiting student and research assistant at Harvard University.

Career

After her doctoral work, Vayena joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and led some of the organisation's work on the ethics of reproductive technologies. She returned to academia, joining the University of Zurich where she received her Habilitation in Bioethics and Health Policy. In 2015 she received a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship Award and became assistant professor of health policy at the University of Zurich. She was later appointed Prof. of Bioethics at ETHZ, holding the first Chair of Bioethics of that Institution, where she also founded the Health Ethics and Policy Lab. She is a Visiting Lecturer at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where she was previously a Fellow.

Bioethics

Vayena is a specialist in the area of digital health ethics and health data governance. She had focused on the normative aspects of independent oversight as well as the procedural principles that should guide independent oversight for digital health technologies. She chaired the WHO expert group that issued the “Ethical Considerations to guide the use of digital proximity tracking technologies for COVID-19 contact tracing” and she co-chairs the WHO’S expert group on the ethics and governance of health AI.

Selected publications

• Jobin, Anna; Ienca, Marcello; Vayena, Effy (2019). "The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines". Nature Machine Intelligence. 1 (9): 389–399. doi:10.1038/s42256-019-0088-2. ISSN 2522-5839.
• Floridi, Luciano; Cowls, Josh; Beltrametti, Monica; Chatila, Raja; Chazerand, Patrice; Dignum, Virginia; Luetge, Christoph; Madelin, Robert; Pagallo, Ugo; Rossi, Francesca; Schafer, Burkhard; Valcke, Peggy; Vayena, Effy (2018-12-01). "AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations". Minds and Machines. 28 (4): 689–707. doi:10.1007/s11023-018-9482-5. ISSN 1572-8641. PMC 6404626. PMID 30930541.
• Ienca, Marcello; Vayena, Effy (2020). "On the responsible use of digital data to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic". Nature Medicine. 26 (4): 463–464. doi:10.1038/s41591-020-0832-5. ISSN 1078-8956. PMC 7100462 . PMID 32284619 .
• Vayena, Effy; Salathé, Marcel; Madoff, Lawrence C.; Brownstein, John S. (2015-02-09). "Ethical Challenges of Big Data in Public Health". PLOS Computational Biology. 11 (2): e1003904. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003904. ISSN 1553-7358. PMC 4321985. PMID 25664461.
• Vayena, Effy; Blasimme, Alessandro; Cohen, I. Glenn (2018-11-06). "Machine learning in medicine: Addressing ethical challenges". PLOS Medicine. 15 (11): e1002689. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002689. ISSN 1549-1676. PMC 6219763. PMID 30399149.

Awards and honors

She is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.

External links

• Effy Vayena publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Chair of Bioethics, ETH Zurich.
• Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.d

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