Members of the ELSI Scholar Directory are scholars and trainees with an interest in research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and genomics. You may contact members to organize collaborative projects or working groups, share speaking opportunities, solicit expert commentary, obtain advice on policy or legislation, network, and arrange mentor/mentee relationships.
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Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D.
Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and chair, History and Sociology of Science, at the University of Pennsylvania
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- History of disease
- Epidemiology
- Health Policy
- Risk
- Cancer

Jay D. Aronson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of the Center for Human Rights Science
Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- forensic DNA
- Human Rights
- race and genetics
- dna forensic databanking

Michael D. Bess, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor of History, Professor of Communication of Science and Technology, Professor of European Studies
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human bioenhancement technologies
- Ethics of advanced AI
- Global catastrophic risks
- Global democratic governance
- Collective military security

Subhashini Chandrasekharan, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
Institution: NIH
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Research Ethics
- precision medicine
- Digital health
- Intellectual Property

Bob Cook-Deegan, MD
Professor
Institution: Arizona State University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human Rights

Megan Doerr, MS, LGC
Director, Applied ELSI Research
Institution: Sage Bionetworks
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- ELSI Issues in Large-scale Population Cohort Studies
- Open science
- Informed Consent
- participatory research
- algorithmic harms

Jonathan Kahn, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Law and Biology
Institution: Northeastern University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Race and Ethnicity
- Bioethical Issues
- Genetics and the Law
- pharmacogenomics

Daniel J. Kevles
Professor Emeritus of History
Institution: Yale University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Eugenics
- Intellectual Property
- public policy

Emily Merchant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institution: University of California, Davis
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- History of science and medicine

Camille Nebeker, EdD, M.S.
Associate Professor
Institution: University of California, San Diego
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Research Ethics