Kalli D. McBride, J.D.
Kalli D. McBride, J.D., received a B.A. from Ball State University in 2007. She double majored in philosophy and economics and minored in sociology and women’s studies. She received her J.D. from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis (IU-Indy). She is currently pursuing a M.A. degree in Philosophy with a concentration in bioethics.
McBride was awarded a graduate assistantship at the IU Center for Bioethics for 2009-10. During her assistantship, she worked primarily on the IU – Moi Academic Research Ethics Partnership (IU-Moi AREP). Her research focused on Kenya’s ethical guidelines and regulations relating to human subject research.
At the law school she was a board member of both the International Human Rights Law Society and the Feminist Law Society. During the summer of 2009 she was awarded an internship from the Program for International Human Rights Law at IU - Indy. The first half of her internship she spent time in Buenos Aires with Professor Eleanor Kinney researching Argentina’s National Program for Sexual Health and Responsible Procreation. She completed the second half of her internship in New York City working for International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia Pacific, a non-governmental organization based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. While in New York she assisted IWRAW-AP’s Global to Local training seminar, which provided NGOs from around the world educational and technical support as they made presentations to the committee Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) at the United Nations.
Since September of 2010 McBride has been the IU – Moi AREP Program Manager at the IU Center for Bioethics. IU – Moi AREP is a curriculum development and training initiative that builds on longstanding partnerships and collaborations in East Africa. It has been awarded a $940,000 four-year grant from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to establish three new research ethics training programs with colleagues at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.
Research Interests
Kalli's research interests focus on:
- international research ethics
- research involving human subjects in clinical trials
- institutional review boards
- international human rights law
