Maria Merritt is a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, where she is a co-Associate Director of the Greenwall Fellowship Program in Bioethics and Health Policy, and a faculty affiliate and advisory board member 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.

Bioethics, Global Health, International Research Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Moral Psychology

Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics career development award, 2009-12, “Researchers’ Obligations in Community-Based Research: Resolving Dilemmas of Care”

Faculty Innovation Fund, 2007-08, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, "Ancillary Care in Public Health Intervention Research in Resource-Limited Settings: Researchers' Practices and Decision-Making"

Faculty Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University, 2005-06

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, 2000-02

Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, 1987-90

Merritt MW, Taylor HA, Mullany LC, "Ancillary Care in Community-Based Public Health Intervention Research", American Journal of Public Health. 2010; 100: 211-216 

Hyder AA, Merritt MW, “Ancillary Care for Public Health Research in Developing Countries,” JAMA. 2009;302(4):429-431

Merritt M, "Aristotelean Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical Character", Journal of Moral Philosophy 6 (2009): 23-49

Hyder A, Merritt M, Ali J, Tran N, Subramaniam K, Akhtar T, “Integrating Ethics, Health Policy and Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Case Studies from Malaysia and Pakistan”, Bulletin of the WHO 86 (2008): 606-611

Participants in the 2006 Georgetown University Workshop on the Ancillary-Care Obligations of Medical Researchers Working in Developing Countries, “The Ancillary-Care Obligations of Medical Researchers Working in Developing Countries”, PLoS Medicine 5(5) (2008): e90.doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050090

Merritt M, "Global Health Research and Professional Ethics: Ancillary Care for Research Participants", Maryland Medicine, Summer 2007: 32-33

Merritt M, "Bioethics, Philosophy, and Global Health", Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics VII(2) (Summer 2007): 273-317

Merritt M and Grady C, “Reciprocity and Post-trial Access for Participants in Antiretroviral Therapy Trials”, AIDS 20 (2006): 1791-1794 Merritt M, “Moral Conflict in Clinical Trials”, Ethics 115 (2005): 306-330

Merritt M, “The Challenge of Clinical Empathy”, Journal of Clinical Ethics, 14 (2003): 283-285

Merritt M, “Emotional Reasoning”, Hastings Center Report 32 (2002): 45-46

Merritt M, “Virtue Ethics and Situationist Personality Psychology”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 3 (2000): 365-383