Biosketch: Leslie Wolf is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law and the School of Public Health. She served as interim dean of the College (2019-2021) and as director of the Center for Law, Health & Society (2014-2019).

Professor Wolf is a leading national scholar in health law, public health and ethics, with a focus on research ethics. She has conducted research on confidentiality risks and protections with a particular focus on Certificates of Confidentiality, research involving biospecimens, conflicts of interest, and IRB guidance, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Greenwall Foundation.

From 2016-2021, Professor Wolf was a member of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP). She continues to serve on SACHRP’s Subcommittee on Harmonization. She previously served on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ethics Subcommittee to the Advisory Committee to the Director.

Biosketch: Jonathan Herington is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. His research focuses on the political philosophy of science, health and technology. He applies the tools of political philosophy to issues arising in research ethics, the ethics of machine-learning algorithms, public health ethics, and environmental governance. Previously he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Kansas State University and a Research Fellow in the Medicine, Ethics, Society and History unit of the University of Birmingham. He completed his PhD in the School of Philosophy, at the Australian National University.

Biosketch: Jim Lavery is the inaugural Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics, Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health, and Faculty of the Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to Emory he held positions at the National Institutes of Health, and at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the 2017 recipient of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research Award for Contributions to Progress in International Research. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council for Health Research for Development (COHRED) USA, Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Health Campaign Effectiveness Coalition at the Task Force for Global Health in Atlanta, and a member of the Bioethics Advisory Panel of Pfizer, Inc.

Biosketch: Jonathan Kimmelman, PhD, is James McGill Professor of Biomedical Ethics at McGill University, and directs the Biomedical Ethics Unit as well as his own research group, STREAM (Studies in Translation, Ethics and Medicine). Kimmelman’s research centers on ethical policy and scientific dimensions of clinical development. Kimmelman received the Maud Menten New Investigator Prize (2006), a CIHR New Investigator Award (2008), a Humboldt Bessel Award (2014), and was elected a Hastings Center Fellow (2018). He has sat on various advisory bodies within the U.S. NHLBI and NIAID, served for four tours of duty on U.S. National Academies of Medicine committees, and chaired the International Society of Stem Cell Research Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation revision task force 2015-16. His research has been covered in major media outlets, including NPR’s All Things Considered, STATNews, and Nature. Kimmelman is deputy editor at Clinical Trials, and associate editor at Cell Med.

Biosketch: David B. Resnik is a Bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Resnik has an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a J.D. from Concord University School of Law, and a B.A. in philosophy from Davidson College. Dr. Resnik was an Associate and Full Professor of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU) from 1998 to 2004, and an Associate Director of the Bioethics Center at ECU and University Health Systems from 1998 to 2004. Dr. Resnik was Assistant and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wyoming (UW) from 1990 to 1998, and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Ethics at UW from 1995 to 1998. Dr. Resnik has published over 300 articles and 10 books on various topics in philosophy and bioethics and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on several editorial boards and is an Associate Editor of the journal Accountability in Research.

Biosketch: Educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Columbia Universities, Daniel Hausman taught at the University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon, and for 32 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before accepting his current position at the Center for Population-Level Bioethics at Rutgers University. His research addresses methodological, metaphysical, and ethical issues at the boundaries between economics and philosophy, and is currently focused on the ethical appraisal of the use of cost-effectiveness information to allocate health care. The author of nearly 200 books and articles, Hausman also co-founded the journal, Economics and Philosophy with Michael McPherson. His most important books are The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics (1992), Causal Asymmetries (1998), Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare (2012), Valuing Health: Well-being, Freedom, and Suffering (2015), and, with Michael McPherson and Debra Satz, Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy. In 2009 Hausman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.