David Ross Buchanan, Dr.P.H.
Professor
Director, Division of Community Health Studies
Director, Institute for Global Health
Telephone: 413-545-1005
Email: buchanan@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: 306 Arnold House
David Buchanan, DrPH, is a Full Professor of Community Health Education, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Director of the Institute for Global Health. He earned both his Master’s degree and his doctorate in health education from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary research interests include public health ethics, in particular, broadening public health goals to look beyond physical fitness towards improving quality of life, expanding human autonomy and promoting social justice; community-based participatory research; identifying more appropriate criteria for evaluating community health education programs, such as the degree of community input and control, and degree of trust between partners; and international health. Among his many publications, he is the author of An Ethic for Health Promotion: Rethinking the sources of human well being published by Oxford University Press.
Recent Publications
Buchanan, David, Sifunda S, Naidoo N, James S, Reddy P. Assuring adequate protections in international health research: A principled justification and practical recommendations for the role of community oversight. Public Health Ethics (in press).
Buchanan D. Autonomy, Paternalism & Justice: Ethical priorities in public health. AJPH, 98: 15-21, 2008.
Buchanan D, Miller FG, Wallerstein N. Ethical Issues in Community Based Participatory Research: Balancing rigorous research with community participation. Prog in Comm Hlth Partnerships, 2(1): 153-60, 2007.
Buchanan D. Tensions between Scientific and Ethical Criteria in Evaluating Public Health Interventions. Chapter 9 in B Wallace (Ed.), From Health Inequity to Equity in Health: A New Global Approach to Health Disparities. Springer Publishing Company, 2007.
Slutsman, Julia, Buchanan, David, and Grady, Christine. Ethical Issues in Cancer Chemoprevention Trials: Considerations for IRBs and Investigators in Assessing Reasonable Risk. IRB: Ethics & Human Research 29(2): 1-6, 2007.
Buchanan, David, and Miller FG. Justice in Research on Human Subjects. Chapter 18 in Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie Francis, and Anita Silvers (Eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, Blackwell, New York, 2006.
Buchanan, David. Policy needs regarding the duty to protect in epidemiological research with high-risk populations. Journal of Public Health Policy, 2006;27(3):293-308.
Vanden Heede, Fred, Pelican, Suzy, Holmes, Betty, and Buchanan, David. Values, body weight, and well being: The influence of the Protestant ethic and consumerism on physical activity, eating, and body image. International Quarterly for Community Health Education, 25(3):239-270, 2006.
Buchanan, David, and Miller, Franklin G. A Public Health Perspective on Research Ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 32(12): 729-733, 2006.
Buchanan, David. Moral reasoning as a model for health promotion. Social Science & Medicine, 63(1):2715-2726, 2006.
