Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director, CDC
The Ethics Subcommittee was established 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.
Current Roster
John D. Arras, Ph.D.
Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Term: 5/18/05 – 06/30/09
Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D.
University Professor of Medical Humanities
The George Washington University
Washington, DC
Term: 5/7/06 - 06/30/09
Thomas G. Hooyman, Ph.D.
President, Ethically SpeakingTM
Denver, Colorado
Term: 6/1/05 - 06/30/09
Bruce Jennings, MA
Director, Centers for Humans and Nature
New York, New York
Term: 5/3/05 - 06/30/09
Barbara Ann Koenig, Ph.D.
Consultant and Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry
Mayo Clinic Foundation/Mayo College of Medicine
Rochester, Minnesota
Term: 5/4/05 - 06/30/08
Kathy Kinlaw, MDiv.
Associate Director and Program Director in Health Sciences Ethics
Center for Ethics
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Term: 5/3/05 - 06/30/09
Robert J. Levine, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Lecturer in Pharmacology
Co-Director, Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Director, Law, Policy and Ethics Core, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Term: 5/6/05 - 06/30/08
Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.
Head, Division of Philosophy and History of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York
Term: 5/4/05 - 06/30/08
James Conley Thomas, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Director, Program in Public Health Ethics
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Term: 5/10/05 - 06/30/08
Two ACD Representatives to be named.
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