Ruth Faden

Ruth R. Faden (born 1949), is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Executive Director of The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Faden also serves on the Advisory Board of Incentives for Global Health, the not-for-profit behind the Health Impact Fund.

She has served on several national advisory committees and commissions. She chaired the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments established by Former President Bill Clinton in 1994. Faden is a notable commentator on bioethics in several media outlets as well a guest speaker at numerous conferences. She is a recipient of the Golden Apple Award at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She holds a B.A from the University of Pennsylvania, a M.A. in General Studies in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and a M.P.H. and Ph.D. (Program in Attitudes and Behavior) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Academic work

Faden is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on biomedical ethics, health policy, clinical ethics, and moral philosophy. Some of her notable works including A History and Theory of Informed Consent (with Tom L. Beauchamp), AIDS, Women and the Next Generation (Ruth Faden, Gail Gellerand Madison Powers, eds.), and HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives (Ruth Faden and Nancy Kass, eds.). She a frequent commentator on media outlets such as The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun.

Her current research interests include bioethics and public policy, ethics and cellular engineering, neuroethics, ethics and bioterrorism, genetics and public policy, and justice. She is working on the following research projects:

• Bellagio Meeting on Pandemic Influenza
• Hinxton Group
• Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences
• Program on Ethics in Clinical Practice
• Stem Cell Policy and Ethics Program

She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and The Hastings Center, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

See also

• Kristin Shrader-Frechette
• Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake
• John Goffman
• Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy

External links

• Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
• Ruth Faden's page at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics