Nancy E. Kass, Sc.D., is the Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health, in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Deputy Director for Public Health in Berman Institute of Bioethics. She received her B.A. from Stanford University, completed doctoral training in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and was awarded a National Research Service Award to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Dr. Kass conducts empirical work in bioethics and health policy. Her publications are primarily in the fields of HIV/AIDS policy, genetics policy, public health ethics, and U.S. and international research ethics. She is coeditor (with Ruth Faden) of HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives (Oxford University Press, 1996). Dr. Kass co-chaired the National Cancer Institute Committee to develop Recommendations for Informed Consent Documents for Cancer Clinical Trials, and served on the NCI’s central IRB. She has served as consultant to the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and to the National Academy of Sciences. Current research projects examine genetics and privacy; informed consent in early phase cancer trials; ethics issues that arise in international health research and the views and experiences of healthy volunteers in Phase 1 research. Dr. Kass teaches the School of Public Health’s course on U.S. and International Research Ethics and Integrity, is director of the School’s PhD program in bioethics and health policy, and is director of the Fogarty-Johns Hopkins bioethics training program for African scientists. |
