Ruth R. Faden is an American scientist, academic, and founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She was the Berman Institute's Director from 1995 until 2016, and the inaugural Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director from 2014 to 2016. Faden is the inaugural Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of
Biomedical Ethics.
Faden is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of
The Hastings Center and the
American Psychological Association
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. She has served on President Clinton's Advisory Committee on
Human Radiation Experiments, which she chaired. Faden co-launched the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, sponsor of the 7 by 5 Agenda for Ethics and Global Food Security. She is also a co-founder of the Hinxton Group, a global community committed to advancing ethical and policy challenges in
stem cell science, and the Second Wave initiative, an effort to ensure that the health interests of pregnant women are fairly represented in biomedical research and drug and device policies.
In 2011, Faden was the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from the
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIMR).
Faden was born and raised in
Philadelphia
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. At 16, Faden was accepted to
Temple University
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, where she studied for two years before transferring to the
University of Pennsylvania
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, where she earned her
bachelor's degree
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. Faden later earned her
M.A. from the
University of Chicago
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, and her
MPH and
PhD from
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Academic work
Faden is the author and editor of books and articles on biomedical ethics and public policy, including ''Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy'' (with
Madison Powers) and ''A History and Theory of Informed Consent'' (with Tom L. Beauchamp). Her latest book (also with
Madison Powers) is ''Structural Injustice: Power, Advantage, and Human Rights''.
Publications
Books
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Powers, Madison (2019).
Structural Injustice: Power, Advantage, and Human Rights'. Oxford University Press.
References
External links
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of BioethicsRuth Faden'spage at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
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1949 births
Living people
American bioethicists
Fellows of the Hastings Center
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Chicago alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Graduate Women in Science members