The Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD
Nancy Kass, ScD, is the Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health at Johns Hopkins, Deputy Director for Public Health in the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Kass conducts empirical and conceptual work in bioethics and health policy. Her publications are primarily in the field of U.S. and global research ethics, public health ethics, infectious diseases and ethics policy, and ethics and the learning healthcare system. From 2017-2023 Dr. Kass served as Vice-Provost for Graduate Education for Johns Hopkins University. She then served as Ethics Advisor, Office of the Commissioner, at the Food and Drug Administration through an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) arrangement 2023-2024. In 2009-2010, Dr. Kass was based in Geneva, Switzerland, working with the World Health Organization (WHO) Ethics Review Committee Secretariat. Dr. Kass is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and an elected fellow of the Hastings Center.
A03 - The Ethics of Placebo Controls in Vaccine Clinical Trials
Friday, November 7, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM ET