Ruth Faden, MPH, PhD

Dr. Faden is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the former Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.

She has collaborated extensively on projects with other KIE Senior Research Scholars, including co-authoring books with Tom Beauchamp (A History and Theory of Informed Consent) and Madison Powers (Social Justice), and co-founding the Second Wave Initiative with KIE Director Maggie Little, whose PHASES project (new window) on the ethics of HIV/AIDS research during pregnancy is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health.