Speakers

Jeffrey Kahn

Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Jeffrey Kahn is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and the Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy. He is also Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

His work focuses on the ethics of research, ethics and public health including global health, and ethics and emerging biomedical technologies.

He speaks widely in the US and abroad, and has published five books and over 150 articles, and has received grants from a range of funders including the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Greenwall Foundation, Wellcome Trust (UK), and Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Fellow of the Hastings Center, and has chaired or served on numerous committees and panels for the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control, NASA, and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

He holds a BA in microbiology (UCLA), MPH (Johns Hopkins), and PhD in philosophy (Georgetown).