Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medical Ethics in an ERC-funded project (ref 261067)

The position forms part of the European Research Council-funded Starting Grant project "Ethics of Mortality Measurement" (ETHME), which will consist of Principal Investigator Carl Tollef Solberg, two postdoctoral research fellows, two associated doctoral candidates, and a research coordinator. In addition, five internationally leading researchers constitute the advisory board of ETHME. ETHME is a theoretical project that investigates the theoretical and normative grounds for measuring deaths and evaluating their disvalue in summary measures of population health, such as the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). The project seeks to develop an "ethics of mortality measurement" that involves deliberation on choices and rationales behind the scope, construction, and applications of mortality measurements. ETHME consists of three work packages: WP1 – Understanding the nature of harm in death, WP2 – Building theoretically robust summary measures and WP3 – Evaluating procreation in future individuals.

The tasks of the Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be to work on WP3. This work involves research on the theoretical soundness of evaluations of procreation of future individuals. Specifically, the candidate will focus on the theoretical and applied aspects of population ethics related to measures of population health, such as the relationship prenatal nonexistence (of future individuals) and postnatal nonexistence (death), the measurement of value of procreation, and questions such as whether the value of procreation should be considered in cost-utility analysis of in vitro fertilization. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will participate in ETHME’s research group based at a leading research centre on medical ethics.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/261067/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-medical-ethics-in-an-erc-funded-project