| | | Name: | Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Title: | Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Executive Director, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Professor, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | Contact: | 624 N. Broadway, Room 352 Baltimore, MD 21205-1996 Phone: 443-287-0413 Fax: 410-614-9567 rfaden@jhsph.edu |
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Biographical Sketch | Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Executive Director of The Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Dr. Faden is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on biomedical ethics and health policy including Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (with Madison Powers), A History and Theory of Informed Consent (with Tom L. Beauchamp), AIDS, Women and the Next Generation (Ruth Faden, Gail Geller and Madison Powers, eds.), HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives (Ruth Faden and Nancy Kass, eds.). Dr. Faden is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the American Psychological Association. She has served on several national advisory committees and commissions, including the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, which she chaired. Current research interests include bioethics and public policy, ethics and cellular engineering, ethics and bioterrorism, ethics, genetics and public policy, research ethics, and justice. Dr. Faden holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, a MA in General Studies in Humanities from the University of Chicago and a MPH and Ph.D. (Program in Attitudes and Behavior) from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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