Professor, Social Medicine
School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Sociology
Research Associate, Sheps Center for Health Services Research
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Adjunct Faculty, Asian Pacific Studies Institute
Duke University
gail_henderson@med.unc.edu
Professor Henderson's responsibilities at the University
of North Carolina (UNC) include teaching medical students and advising
independent student research projects. She has taught courses on
social factors in health care, clinical epidemiology, technology
in medicine, and cross cultural medical ethics. She has also lectured
and taught on health care financing, practice, and management in
China, and has organized research ethics panels at the International
Clinical Epidemiology Network in Thailand
Henderson's scholarship includes interdisciplinary survey research
on the determinants of health, equity in access and treatment, and
women's roles in health and nutrition in China. She has performed
a qualitative evaluation of informed consent in a Chinese clinical
trial for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and instructed the
World Bank on qualitative methods in health services research. She
is principal investigator on a project investigating informed consent
in gene transfer research. Henderson also serves as a grant reviewer
for the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental
Health, the National Science Foundation, and the World Health Organization.
Henderson has published five books and over twenty articles on topics
including the Chinese hospital, social medicine, human subjects
research, and technology in medicine. She is currently co- chair
of the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee.
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