Dónal O’Mathúna
University of Miami, USA & Dublin City University, Ireland
Biography
Dónal O’Mathúna is Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University, USA and in the School of Nursing & Human Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland. His research interests focus on both healthcare ethics and evidence-based practice. His ethics research has focused on disasters and humanitarian crises. He has led funded research projects on healthcare and research ethics in the context of disasters and humanitarian crises. He has contributed to ethics initiatives and guidelines with the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the UN agency for disaster risk reduction (UNISDR). As the director of a new virtual Center for Disaster & Humanitarian Ethics (http://www.ge2p2.org/cdhe), he is helping develop practical tools and support strategies to facilitate reflection on ethical issues in humanitarian research. He has spoken and published widely, including peer-reviewed articles in The Lancet, Bioethics, BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, and Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing.