Nancy Kass
Professor
Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health
Departmental Address
1809 Ashland Avenue
Deering Hall, Room 204
Research and Professional Experience
Nancy Kass, Sc.D., is the Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health in the Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University and a Fellow of the Hastings Center. 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). She served as consultant to the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments 1994-1995, served as a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on reducing the transmission of perinatal HIV, and consultant to National Bioethics Advisory Commission to examine American investigators’ experiences working in developing countries. Other current research projects examine genetics and privacy; informed consent in early phase cancer trials; justice and research with healthy volunteers; and ethics issues that arise in international health research. Dr. Kass teaches or has taught courses on HIV/AIDS policy, research ethics, and international research ethics. She also directs the PhD program in bioethics and health policy and the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty African Bioethics Training Program.
Keywords
HIV, ethics, bioethics, research ethics, international, women, genetics, AIDS, public health ethics, health policy
Honors and Awards
Member, Institute of Medicine, 2008
Fellow, Hastings Center, 2007
Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 1996
AMTRA (Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Award), Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 1996
National Research Service Award, National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, 1990
Dissertation Grant, National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, 1988
Public Health Training Grant, 1986
Dean's Award for Service, Stanford University, 1983
Selected Publications
Rabins PV, Kass NE, Rutkow L, Vernick JS, Hodge JG. (2011). Challenges for mental health services raised by disaster preparedness: mapping the ethical and therapeutic terrain. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 9(2): 175-179.
Kass NE, Pronovost PJ. (2011). Quality, safety, and institutional review boards: navigating ethics and oversight in applied health systems research. American Journal of Healthcare Quality, 26(2):157-159.
Aggarwal R, Gupte N, Kass N, Taylor H, Ali J, Bhan A, Aggarwal A, Sisson S, Kanchanaraksa S, McKenzie-White J, McGready J, Miotti P, Bollinger RC. (2011). A comparison of online versus on-site training in health research methodology: a randomized study. BMC Medical Education, 11:37doi:10.1186/1472-6920-11-37.
Kass NE, Chaisson L, Taylor HA, Lohse J. (2011). Length and Complexity of US and International HIV Consent Forms from Federal HIV Network Trials. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 26(11):1324-1328.
Faden RR, Beauchamp TL, Kass NE. (2011). Learning health care systems and justice. Hastings Center Report, 41(4):3.
Kennedy C, Kass N, Myers R, Fuchs E, Flexner C. (2011). When a serious adverse event in research occurs, how do other volunteers react? Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 6(2): 47-56.
Chaisson LH, Kass NE, Chengeta B, Mathebula U, Samandari T. (2011). Repeated assessments of informed consent comprehension among HIV-infected participants of a three-year clinical trial in Botswana. Public Library of Science One. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022696
