| | Name: | Maria Merritt, Ph.D. | Title: | Assistant Professor, Department of International Health | Contact: | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe Street, E8620
Baltimore, MD 21205
410-502-3116
mmerritt@jhsph.edu |
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Faculty Biosketch Maria Merritt is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health (affiliated with the Health Systems Program) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, where she helps to direct the Greenwall Fellowship Program in Bioethics and Health Policy, and she is also a faculty affiliate of the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program. Dr. Merritt has research interests in bioethics, global health ethics, international research ethics, moral philosophy, and moral psychology. Several of her recent and current projects focus on practical problems of global justice. What do citizens of affluent countries owe to the poor who live in other countries? More specifically, to whom and for what are outside agencies morally responsible in their work with low- and middle-income countries? Topics include the impact of foreign-sponsored research and humanitarian projects on local health systems. Other projects relate the philosophical understanding of ethical character to relevant findings in social psychology, focusing on interpersonal aspects of the psychological processes (such as self-evaluation and self-esteem) through which individuals sustain their commitments to ethical values. In 2005-06 Dr. Merritt was a Faculty Fellow in the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University; from 2002 to 2006 she was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary; and from 2000 to 2002 she was a post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
