Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director, CDC

The Ethics Subcommittee was established in 2005 to provide counsel to CDC on a broad range of public health ethics questions and issues arising from programs, scientists and practitioners, and to support CDC in the development of internal capacity to identify, analyze, and resolve ethical issues. The Ethics Subcommittee is composed of academic and professional ethicists from outside CDC.

Click here for meeting minutes:
http://www.cdc.gov/maso/FACM/facmACDCDC_minutes.htm

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Current Roster

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, J.D., M.P.H.
Director, Division of Public Health Policy and Practice
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Term: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2013

Ronald Bayer, Ph.D.
Professor and Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
New York, NY
Term: July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2011

Vivian Berryhill (ACD Representative)
President and Founder
National Coalition of Pastors’ Spouses
Olive Branch, Mississippi
Term: 06/26/08 – 06/30/2010

LaVera Marguerite Crawley, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Biomedical Ethics
Palo Alto, CA
Term: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2013

Norman Daniels, Ph.D.
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics
Professor of Ethics and Population Health
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Term: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2012

Robert Hood, Ph.D. (Chair)
State Public Health Ethicist
Ethics and Human Research Protection Program
Florida Department of Health
Tallahassee, FL
Term: July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2012

Nancy E. Kass, Sc.D.
Deputy Director for Public Health,
Berman Institute of Bioethics;
Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Berman Institute of Bioethics;
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Term: July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2011

Bernard Lo, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Director, Program in Medical Ethics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Term: July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2011

Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor
Division of Health Policy and Administration
Yale School of Public Health
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Term: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2013

Pamela Sankar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioethics, Department of Medical Ethics
Fellow, Center for Bioethics
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Term: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2012

Leslie E. Wolf, J.D., M.P.H
Associate Professor of Law
Center for Health, Law and Society
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, GA
Term – September 25, 2008 – June 30, 2012