Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Executive Director of Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Dr. Faden is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on biomedical ethics and health policy including 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.), 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 several national advisory committees and commissions, including the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, which she chaired. Current research interests include bioethics and public policy; ethics and cellular engineering; ethics and neuroscience; ethics and bioterrorism; ethics, genetics and public policy; research ethics; and justice.

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

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

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.