Center for Global Health Faculty

Professor

Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Philip Franklin Wagley Professor in Biomedical Ethics

Academic Degrees

• PhD
• MPH

Departmental Affiliation

• Name:

  Health Policy and Management

  Affiliation Type:

  Primary

Departmental Address

Contact Information

Email:

rfaden+jhsph.edu

Phone:

410-614-5553

Fax:

410-614-5360

Link:

Personal Website

Link:

SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

Ruth R. Faden , Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, at Georgetown University.

Dr. Faden is the author and editor of many 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.), and 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 numerous national advisory committees and commissions, including the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, which she chaired. She is a co-founder of the Hinxton Group, a global community committed to advancing ethical and policy challenges in stem cell science, and the Second Wave project, an effort to ensure that the health interests of pregnant women are fairly represented in biomedical research and drug and device policies.

Dr. Faden's current research focuses on questions of social justice in health policy and global health. She also works on ethical challenges in biomedical science and in women's health. Dr. Faden's work in social justice is concentrated on national and global challenges in pandemic influenza planning and response, vaccine policy and funding, health systems design, and access to the benefits of global investments in biomedical research.

Dr. Faden holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in general studies in humanities from the University of Chicago and an M.P.H. and Ph.D. (Program in Attitudes and Behavior) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Keywords

Health policy and management; bioethics and public policy; ethics and cellular engineering; ethics and neuroscience; ethics and bioterrorism; ethics, genetics and public policy; research ethics; justice

Honors and Awards

Member, Delta Omega Fellow, American Psychological Association Fellow, The Hastings Center Fellows Council (1998-2002) Member, Institute of Medicine

Golden Apple Award, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health, 1980-81

Selected Publications

Faden, R.R. and Powers, M. "Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy," Oxford University Press, 2006.

Seiler, N., Taylor, H., Faden, R., “Legal and ethical considerations in government compensation plans: A case study of smallpox immunization,” Indiana Health Law Review, 1:1 (2004): 3-27.

Faden, R.R., "Bioethics: A field in transition" Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 32:2 (2004): 276-278.

Bok, H., Schill, K.E., Faden, R.R. “Justice, ethnicity, and stem-cell banks,” The Lancet, 2004: 364: 118-121.

Kass, N.E., Natowicz, M.R., Hull, S.C., Faden, R.R., Plantinga, L., Gostin, L.O. and Slutsman, J., "Medical privacy and the disclosure of personal medical information: The beliefs and experiences of those with genetic and other clinical conditions." American Journal of Medical Genetics, 128A:261-270 (2004).

Emanuel, E.J., Wood, A., Fleischman, A., Bowen, A., Getz, K.A., Grady, C., Levine, C., Hammerschmidt, D., Faden, R., Eckenwiler, L., Tucker Muse, C., Sugarman, J., “Oversight of human participants research: Identifying problems to evaluate reform proposals,” Annals of Internal Medicine, 141(4), 282-291, August 17, 2004.

Levine, C., Faden, R.R., Grady, C., Hammerschmidt, D., Eckenwiler, L., Sugarman, J., “Special scrutiny: A targeted form of research protocol review.” Annals of Internal Medicine, 140(3), 220-223, February 3, 2004.

Kass, N.E., Natowicz, M.R., Hull, S.C., Faden, R.R., Plantinga, L., Gostin, L.O. and Slutsman, J., "The use of medical records in research: What do patients want?" Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 31 (2003): 429-433.

Faden, R.R., Dawson, L., Bateman-House, A.S., Agnew, D.M., Bok, H., Brock, D.W., Chakravarti, A., Gao, X-J., Greene, M., Hansen, J.A., King, P.A., O'Brien, S.J., Sachs, D.H., Schill, K.E., Siegel, A., Solter, D., Suter, S. M., Verfaillie, C.M., Walters, L.B., Gearhart, J.D., "Public stem cell banks: Considerations of justice in stem cell research and therapy." Hastings Center Report, 33(6), November-December 2003.

Dawson, L., Bateman-House, A.S., Agnew, D.M., Bok, H., Brock, D.W., Chakravarti, A., Greene, M., King, P.A., O'Brien, S.J., Sachs, D.H., Schill, K.E., Siegel, A., Solter, D., Suter, S. M., Verfaillie, C.M., Walters, L.B., Gearhart, J.D., Faden, R.R., "Safety issues in cell-based intervention trials." Fertility and Sterility, 80(5), 1077-1085, November 2003.

Faden, R.R., Taylor, H.A., Seiler, N.K., "Consent and Compensation: A Social Compact for Smallpox Vaccine Policy in the Event of an Attack." Clinical Infectious Diseases, 36(12), 1547-51, June 2003.

Plantinga, L., Natowicz, M.R., Kass, N.E., Hull, S.C., Gostin, L.O. and Faden, R.R., "Disclosure, confidentiality, and families: Experiences and attitudes of those with 'genetic' versus 'non-genetic' medical conditions." American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2003; 119C: 51-59.

Taylor, H.A. and Faden, R.R., "Ethical Considerations in the Formation of Smallpox Vaccine Policy." Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science, 2003; 1:1; 47-54.