Dr. Faden is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on biomedical ethics and health policy including Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy (with Madison Powers), A History and Theory of Informed Consent (with Tom L. Beauchamp), AIDS, Women and the Next Generation (Ruth Faden, Gail Geller and Madison Powers, eds.), and HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives (Ruth Faden and Nancy Kass, eds.). Dr. Faden is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the Hastings Center and the American Psychological Association. She has served on several national advisory committees and commissions, including the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, which she chaired. Current research interests include the ethics of health care policy, infectious disease, cellular engineering, research with human subjects, and global health. Dr. Faden holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in general studies in humanities from the University of Chicago and an M.P.H. and Ph.D. (Program in Attitudes and Behavior) from the University of California, Berkeley.

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