Nancy E. Kass, ScD

Phoebe R. Berman Prof. of Bioethics & Public Health, Berman Inst. of Bioethics; Prof., Dept. of Health Policy & Mgmt., Bloomberg School of PH
The Johns Hopkins University

Nancy Kass, ScD, is Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, Johns Hopkins University and Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health in the JHU Berman Institute of Bioethics and Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of Health Policy and Management. In 2009-2010, Dr. Kass was based in Geneva, Switzerland, working with the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Kass received her B.A. from Stanford University, completed doctoral training in health policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and post-doctoral training at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. In her faculty role, Dr. Kass conducts empirical work in bioethics, public health, and human research with publications on global and U.S. research ethics, public health ethics, and the learning healthcare system. Dr. Kass chairs the NIH All of Us Research Program Central IRB; she previously served as consultant to the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kass is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine) and an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center.

Presentation(s):

• A03 - Ethics and Governance in Learning Healthcare Systems

  Monday, November 18
  1:00 PM – 2:15 PM