As a CGS Trainee she worked with CHS investigator Rebecca Walker on the Examining the 'E' in 'ELSI' Project, the first results of which ("Charting ELSI's Course for the Future: Lessons from the Recent Past") is published in Genetics in Medicine (February 2012), and the second in press in . Clair works in practical ethics, specifically bioethics and international justice. She teaches courses in these areas as well as environmental ethics, animal ethics and philosophy of race.