Emily Rao (Baker 18′) will conduct research at University of Cambridge this summer in Cambridge, UK for 9 weeks.

She will be working with Dr. Mila Petrova of the Cambridge Palliative and End of Life Care Group on developing guidelines for palliative care in humanitarian emergencies. Specifically, she will be exploring generic ethical issues around the use of controlled designs in humanitarian settings and considering their relevance to potential controlled studies of palliative care in such settings. This research question will also require an exploration of the typologies of disasters and humanitarian emergencies and a consideration of the general ethical dilemmas potentially associated with the provision of palliative care in
humanitarian contexts (e.g. resource redistribution, the danger of reducing the urgency of
providing available curative interventions, etc.).

This blog formerly served to document her civic research experience at Collective Responsibility in Shanghai, China.