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.

HIV, ethics, bioethics, research ethics, international, women, genetics, AIDS, public health ethics, health policy

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

Burger, I., Kass, N., Siegelman, S., Sunshine, J. “The Use of CT for Screening: A National Survey of Radiologists’ Activities and Attitudes.” Radiology, in press.

Goldberg-Freeman, C., Kass, N., Tracey, P., Ross, G., Bates-Hopkins, B., Purnell, L., Canniffe, B., Farfel, M. “’You’ve Got to Understand Community’: Community Perceptions on ‘Breaking the Disconnect’ Between Researchers and Communities.” Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 2007;3:231-40.

Hyder, A.A., Harrison, R.A., Kass, N.E., Maman, S. “A Case Study of Research Ethics Capacity Development in Africa.” Academic Medicine, July 2007; 82 (7):675-683.

Black, B.S., Kass, N.E., Fogarty, L.A., Rabins P.V. “Informed consent for dementia research: The study enrollment encounter.” IRB: Ethics & Human Research, July-August 2007; 29(4):7-14.

Elsayed, D.E.M., Kass, N.E. “Attitudes of Sudanese researchers on obtaining informed consent from study subjects involved in health research.” Sudanese Journal of Public Health, April 2007; 2(2): 95-102.

Kass, N.E., Myers, R.A., Fuchs, E.J., Carson, K.A., Flexner, C.W. “Balancing Justice and Autonomy in Clinical Research with Healthy Volunteers.” Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, in press.

Kass, N.E., Hyder, A.A., Ajuwon, A., Appiah-Poku, J., Barsdorf, N., Elsayed, D.E., Mokhachane, M., Mupenda, B., Ndebele, P., Ndossi, G., Sikateyo, B., Tangwa, G., Tindana, P.O. “The Structure and Function of Research Ethics Committees in Africa: A Case Study.” Public Library of Science, January 2007; 4(1): e3 1-6.

Kass, N., Medley, A., Natowicz, M., Chandros Hull, S., Faden, R., Plantinga, L., Gostin, L. “Access to Health Insurance: Experiences and Attitudes of Those with Genetic versus Non-genetic Medical Conditions.” American Journal of Medical Genetics: Part A, published online 2/8/07.

Ssekubugu, R., Masiye, F., Kithinji, C., Hyder, A., Kass, N. “The Female Condom, Society and Public Health: A Commentary from Sub-Saharan Africa.” Organizational Ethics, 2006; 3(1): 64-72.

Kass, N. “An ethics framework for public health and avian influenza pandemic preparedness.” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 2005; 78: 11-26.

Burger, I. and Kass, N. “Ethical conduct of radiology research with human participants.” The Journal of the American College of Radiology, Dec. 2006; 3: 932-39.

Tindana, P.O., Kass, N., Akweongo, P. “The informed consent process in a rural African setting: A case study of the Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana.” IRB: Ethics and Human Research, May-June 2006; 28(3):1-6.

Kass, N. and Medley, A. “Genetic Screening and Disability Insurance: What can we Learn from the Health Insurance Experience?” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, in press.

Johnson, S; Kass, NE; Natowicz, M. "Disclosure of Personal Medical Information: Differences among Parents and Affected Adults for Genetic and Non-genetic Conditions." Genetic Testing, 2005; 9(3):269-280.

Kass, N., Maman, S., and Atkinson, J. “Motivations, Understanding, and Voluntariness in International Randomized Trails”. IRB: Ethics & Human Research, 2005; 27(6): 1-8.

Dickert, N., Kass, N., Taylor, H., and Paasche-Orlow, M. “Exclusion of Particular Information from Consent Forms”. Accountability in Research, 2005; 12(1):33-45.

Kass, N., “Public Health Ethics: From Foundations and Frameworks to Justice and Global Public Health” The Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 2004; 32(2): 232-242.

Kass, N., Dawson, L., and Loyo-Berrios, N. “Ethical oversight of developing country research: Results of a Survey of US Investigators”, IRB, Ethics, and Human Research, 2003; 25(2): 1-10.

Beyrer, C., and Kass,N. “Human rights, politics, and research ethics review”, Lancet, 2002; 360: 246-251.

Kass, N. “An Ethics Framework for Public Health” American Journal of Public Health, 2001;91(11):1776-1782.

Kass, N., Sugarman, J., Faden, R., Schoch-Spana, M., "Trust: The Fragile Foundation of Contemporary Biomedical Research". The Hastings Center Report, 1996;26:25-29.

Kass, N. and Sugarman, J., "Are Research Subjects Adequately Protected? A Review and Discussion of Three Projects Conducted by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments" The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 1996;6:271-282.