Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine

OE 5450

Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Phone: +49 511-532-4278
Fax: +49 511-532-5650

Email: Nobile.Helene@mh-hannover.de

Hélène Nobile studied philosophy (Université Libre de Bruxelles), bioethics (Erasmus Mundus, KU Leuven) and public health (Berlin School of Public Health). She completed her PhD in bioethics at the KU Leuven in 2017 and was a research associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at the MHH from August 2017 to August 2018. Since April 2022, Hélène Nobile has returned to work at the Institute as a research associate in the “Research Ethics and Methodology” working group

Research interests

• Empirical-ethical research
• Ethics of biobank research
• Ethics of epidemiology
• Research ethics
• Public health ethics
• Methodology of systematic reviews of bioethical literature

Academic career

Since April 2022: Research associate 
Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School

2017-2018: Research associate 
Institute for History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School

2012-2017: Doctorate (German Institute of Human Nutrition / KU Leuven)
Dissertation: "Decision to participate in cohort studies with biobanks: an empirical-ethical analysis." 

2012-2015: Master of Sciences in Public Health (Berlin School of Public Health)
Master's thesis: "Who are we loosing during follow-up? – A gender-sensitive investigation of the associations between participants' characteristics and their response patterns during the 10-year follow-up of the EPIC-Potsdam study" 

2008-2010: Master of Bioethics (KU Leuven, Radboud University, Universitá di Padova)
Masterarbeit: "Can we ethically justify mandatory newborn screening?"

1996-2001: Master of the Arts in Philosophy (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Master's thesis: "Lecture de L’Ethique de Spinoza et analyse de la conception du corps"

Publications

Nobile, H, Borry, P, Moldenhauer, J, Bergmann, MM. Return of results in population studies: how do participants perceive them? Public Health Ethics. 2020 doi: 10.1093/phe/phaa034

Mertz, M, Nobile, H, Kahrass, H. Systematic review of empirical literature on bioethical topics: Results from a meta-review. Nurs Ethics. 2020 doi: 10.1177/0969733020907935

Nobile, H, Borry, P, Pischon, T, Steinbrecher, A, Boeing, H, Vigl, M, Bergmann MM. Participants’ decision to enroll in cohort studies with biobanks: quantitative insights from two German studies. Pers Med. 2017 doi: 10.2217/pme-2017-0049

Nobile, H, Bergmann, MM, Moldenhauer, J, & Borry, P. Participants' Accounts on Their Decision to Join a Cohort Study With an Attached Biobank: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study Within Two German Studies. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2016 doi: 10.1177/1556264616657463

Ogbogu, U, Toews, M, Ollenberger, A, Borry, P, Nobile, H, Bergmann, M, & Caulfield, T. Newspaper coverage of biobanks. PeerJ, 2014, 2, e500. doi: 10.7717/peerj.500

Nobile H, Vermeulen E, Thys K, Bergmann M, Borry P. Why do participants enrol in population biobank studies? A systematic literature review. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 2013; 13(1), 35-47. doi: 10.1586/erm.12.116

Thys K, Van Assche K, Nobile H, Siebelink M, Aujoulat I, Schotsmans P, et al. Could minors be living kidney donors? A systematic review of guidelines, position papers and reports. Transpl Int 2013; 26: 949-60.

Nobile, H, Lecture de L’Ethique de Spinoza et analyse de la conception du corps, 2001, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Sciences Humaines (Reference: MEM T22138)
 

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