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Education

Ph.D. - University of Pennsylvania   (History and Sociology of Science)

MBE - University of Pennsylvania (Bioethics)

AB - Princeton University (Classics)

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Teaching

Princeton University
CHV 331/WWS 372 -- Ethics and Public Health, Spring 2013

University of Pennsylvania
BIOE 550 -- Public Health Ethics, Summer 2012
BIOE 551 -- Vaccination and Society, Summer 2013

Guest Lectures in Undergraduate, Graduate, or Professional Programs (Selected Titles, 2008-2013)
-- "American Health Policy: Historical and Ethical Considerations,” Health & Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Bioethics and Medical Technology – An Overview,” Health & Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Consent, Capacity, and Harms in Patient Care: History and Ethics,” Health & Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Ethical Issues in Epidemiology,” Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
-- “Ethics and Vaccination,” University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
-- “Ethics of Human Subjects Research,” Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
-- “History of Human Subjects Research,” Health & Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “HPV Vaccine Policy in the United States: Public Health, Ethical, and Economic Considerations,” Vagelos Life Sciences & Management Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Human Subjects Research: History, Regulation, and Ethics,” Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Mandatory Vaccination: History, Ethics, and Politics,” Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
-- “Norms, Ethics, and Values in Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” Master’s Program in Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Novel H1N1 Influenza Preparedness and Response – Preliminary Reflections,” University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
-- “Public Health Ethics,” Health & Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Research Methods in the History of Medicine and Public Health,” Science, Technology, and Society Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Social Science Research, Medical Records, and Privacy,” Master’s Program in Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Synthetic Biology and the Ethics of Emerging Technologies,” School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
-- “The Politics of American Vaccination,” Master’s Program in Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
-- “The Science of Heredity: 1869-1962,” Science, Technology & Society Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Themes in the History of Mandatory Vaccination Policies in the United States,” Master’s Program in Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Vaccination and American Society, 1950-2012,” School of Public Health, Drexel University
-- “Vaccine Ethics and Policy,” Biomedical Graduate Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
-- “Vaccine Safety Controversies, 1950-2011,” School of Public Health, Drexel University

Teaching Assistantships at the University of Pennsylvania
HSOC 010 -- Health & Societies: Global Perspectives
HSOC 102 -- Bioethics
STSC 001 -- The Emergence of Modern Science
STSC 003 -- Technology and Society
STSC 160 -- The Information Age