Professor Nancy Kass

Biography

Nancy Kass, ScD is Phoebe R Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and the Johns Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute.She received her BA from Stanford University and her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and she completed postdoctoral bioethics training at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

Dr Kass conducts empirical research in bioethics, public health and health policy. Her publications address HIV/AIDS policy, genetics policy, public health ethics, informed consent, and US and international research ethics.She serves on the JHSPH IRB, served as a member of the National Cancer Institute central IRB, and was co-chair of the National Cancer Institute's Working Group on Informed Consent. She is Director of the Johns Hopkins PhD programme in bioethics and health policy and she directs the Johns Hopkins-Fogarty Bioethics Training Program for African professionals.