Tel: 215-898-5328
Email: fbarchi@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education:
PhD - University of Pennsylvania (Social Welfare)
MBE - University of Pennsylvania
MS - University of Pennsylvania (Nonprofit Leadership)
BA - Smith College
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Description of BIOETHICS Expertise
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
International research ethics, research ethics and vulnerable populations, women’s autonomy and informed consent in the developing world, women’s autonomy and gender-based violence; research ethics training in the developing world.
ABOUT:
Francis Barchi is director of Botswana programs and a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, where she is responsible for the development and implementation of training programs in clinical and research ethics and for expanding the role that bioethics can contribute to that country’s national research agenda. These activities have included workshops and seminars in research ethics, advisory services to the Health Research Unit of the Ministry of Health on the development of standard operating procedures for ethics review, and the development of a national curriculum in nursing ethics in practice. In conjunction with faculty at the Penn Center for Bioethics, she recently completed a study to assess the effectiveness of different teaching modalities to enhance critical reasoning in research ethics in Botswana. Currently, she is Co-PI in a Fogarty-funded program seeking to improve ethics review processes for international NIH-funded research protocols in Botswana through a multi-institutional collaboration of ethicists, IRB members and regulatory staff.
Dr. Barchi’s research focuses on the social and behavioral factors that influence women’s health in southern Africa. In 2009, she completed the first major quantitative study on women’s autonomy and gender-based violence in Botswana. She is PI on a study assessing comprehension and voluntariness in the informed consent process used in a cancer screening program for HIV-positive women in Botswana and the extent to which comprehension at a woman’s initial consent process impacts her adherence to recommended treatment and timely return to follow-up care.
Dr. Barchi serves as a member of the Bioethics Committee at Sanofi-Aventis, Paris and the Institutional Review Board for Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Selected Publications
Barchi, F. (2010). Ethical dimensions in population health. In D. B. Nash, J. Reifsnyder, R. Fabius, & V. P. Pracilio (Eds.) Population Health: Innovation, Strategy and Practice. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Barchi, F. (Ed.) (2005). Global issues in women’s health: A University of Pennsylvania research compendium. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. |
