Vardit Ravitsky
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Vardit Ravitsky is a bioethicist, researcher, and author. She is president and CEO of The Hastings Center, a full professor at the University of Montreal, and a senior lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is immediate-past president and current vice-president of the International Association of Bioethics, and the director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics. She is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, where she chaired the COVID-19 Impact Committee.[1][2] She is also Fellow of The Hastings Center and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.[3]
Vardit Ravitsky | |
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Born | Jerusalem, Israel |
Nationality | Israeli and Canadian |
Occupation(s) | Bioethicist, researcher, author |
Title | President and CEO of The Hastings Center |
Awards | Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellow, Hastings Center |
Academic background | |
Education | B.A., Philosophy, Sorbonne University, France M.A., Philosophy, University of New Mexico, USA Ph.D., Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Post-Doctoral Fellow, NIH, USA |
Alma mater | Bar-Ilan University |
Thesis | Genetic Intervention and the Shaping of Human Identity |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Department of Medical Ethics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2005-2008) Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal (2009 – present) Harvard Medical School, Harvard University (2021-present) |
Ravitsky has published over 200 research articles and commentaries in bioethics, with a focus on the ethical, social, and policy implications of genomics and reproductive technologies. She leads several research projects, funded by the National Institutes of Health and by Canada's national and provincial funding agencies, and has been awarded a McConnell-University of Montreal Research Chair. She is lead editor of the Penn Center Guide to Bioethics.[4]