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.

Meeting Minutes for the Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director

Current Roster

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, J.D., M.P.H. (Chair)
Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Associate Director, Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Term: July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2013

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

Kenneth Goodman, Ph.D.
Director, Bioethics Program and
Co-Director, University of Miami Ethics Programs
University of Miami
Miami, FL
Term: January 22, 2011 – June 30, 2015

George Isham, MD, MS (ACD Representative)
Medical Director and Chief Health Officer
Health Partners
Minneapolis, MN
Term: December 10, 2010 – June 30, 2014

Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH
Maas Family Endowed Chair in Bioethics
Director and Professor
Center for Bioethics
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Term: July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2015

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

Eric Meslin, PhD
Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Associate Dean (Bioethics), Professor of Medicine, Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics, and
Professor of Public Health, Indiana University School of Medicine
Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University
Director, Indiana University Center for Law, Ethics, and Applied Research in Health Information
Director, Indiana University-Moi University Academic Research Ethics Partnership
Indianapolis, IN
Term: July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2015

Sara Rosenbaum, J.D. (ACD Representative)
Chair, Department of Health Policy
Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy
George Washington University
Washington, DC
Term: July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2013

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