Simon Outram is a postdoctoral fellow at NTE with States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics, and Therapeutic Hopes and Ethical Concerns: Clinical Research in the Neurosciences. Simon has a background in Social Anthropology (M.A. University of Manchester) and Environmental Epidemiology (M.Sc London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). He completed his PhD in May 2007 (St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London). His PhD explored the use of Racial and Ethnic Categories in Genetics and Biomedical Research. The study examined the relationship between science and society in the production and interpretation of racial/ethnic data, especially the conceptual and methodological frameworks used to present racial/ethnic identities are genetic categories or casual epidemiological variables. Since completing the PhD Simon joined the Open University Innogen Research Centre in September 2007 to conduct research exploring biotechnology and science communication within sub-Saharan Africa. His current research interests include: how academics, policy makers, and the public understand cognitive enhancement; the structural and social limitations to male help-seeking behaviour in the context of chronic mental disability; and, developing a public health ethics approach to bioethical questions.