Ilina Singh – NEUROSEC

Position: Professor of Neuroscience & Society

Project(s): Becoming Good: Early Intervention and Moral Development in Psychiatry (BeGOOD) Africa Ethics Working Group Oxford Global Initiative in Neuropsychiatric GenEthics (NeuroGenE) Real world Outcomes across the AD spectrum for better care (ROADMAP) Personalized Mental Health and Religious Ethics Changing Minds: Psychedelic Bioethics Mental Health in Schools Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities

Ilina is Professor of Neuroscience & Society at the University of Oxford, where she holds a joint appointment between the Department of Psychiatry and the Faculty of Philosophy (Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Uehiro Centre). Her work examines the psychosocial and ethical implications of advances in biomedicine and neuroscience for young people and families. This reflects a longstanding commitment to bringing the first person experiences of children and young people into ethical evaluation, clinical decision-making and policy-making.

In 2015, Ilina received a 5 year Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award for a study entitled: Becoming Good: Early Intervention and Moral Development in Child Psychiatry. Past projects include ADHD VOICES, Neuroenhancement Responsible Research and Innovation; and the Urban Brain Project.

Ilina has contributed to various scientific and policy groups, including the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. More recently, Ilina was part of the expert working group representing children and young people for the UK Department of Health 10 year strategy report, ‘A framework for mental health research’. She is a co-chair of the Ethics Advisory Board for the EU-AIMS project on autism treatments and is an expert advisor for the National Autism Project.

Ilina has published widely in eminent journals, including Nature, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Social Science and Medicine, and the American Journal of Bioethics. She is the lead editor of BioPrediction, Biomarkers and Bad Behavior: Scientific, Ethical and Legal Challenges (Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philsophy. Oxford University Press, 2013), and a co-editor of Global ADHD (John Hopkins University Press, 2017). She is a founding editor of the journal BioSocieties and a member of the AJOB Neuroscience and Qualitative Psychology editorial boards.

Ilina received her BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD from Harvard. In 2013, Ilina was elected as a Fellow of the Hastings Center, an honour awarded to individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences research and the environment.