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Nancy Kass, Sc.D.
Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health; Deputy Director for Public Health, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 N. Broadway, Hampton House 344
Baltimore, MD 21205-1996
p: 410-955-0310
e: nkass@jhsph.edu
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Research ethics, including identifying simpler ways of conducting informed consent in order to increase research participants understanding
Public health ethics and the ethics of infectious diseases
The ethics of international public health research
Ethics and pandemic influenza
Community engagement
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| Faculty Bio: |
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 Medicines 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.
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