Gabrielle Samuel King's College LondonUnited Kingdom

Dr Gabrielle (Gabby) Samuel is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and co-Director of SHADE - a research group and network at the intersection of Sustainability, Health, AI, Digital technologies, and the Environment. Gabby's research explores ethical issues associated with the environmental impacts of health research and care. A lot of this work - but by no means all - relates to digital health. She has argued that the moral gaze of digital technologies should include not only their use, but also where they have come from and where they are disposed. She draws on concepts of sustainability, justice, care, power, equity, responsibility and neo-liberalism to do this. She is particularly interested in how values are traded-off during decision-making, and how this relates to moral obligation, responsibility, justice and critical justice scholarship. She is trained in sociology and ethics (Medical sociology PhD and Bioethics MA) with a background in the life sciences (Molecular Genetics PhD). She draws mainly on qualitative research methods and has published extensively in the field of biobanking, genomics, digital health, forensic/health genetic technologies, research ethics, and research ethics committees, and social media and AI/big data research.