Associate Professor and Senior Research Scholar
University of Otago and The Hastings Center
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Josephine Johnston is Associate Professor at the University of Otago’s Bioethics Centre in Dunedin, New Zealand and Senior Research Scholar at The Hastings Center in Garrison, New York, USA. She has degrees in law and bioethics. Josephine Johnston works on the ethical, legal, and policy implications of advances in science and medicine, with a focus on human reproduction, psychiatry, genetics, and neuroscience. Her recent research has addressed the ethics of chimeric research, new kinds of prenatal genetic tests, gene editing technologies, and genome sequencing in newborns. Josephine’s scholarly work has appeared in medical, scientific, policy, law, and bioethics journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature, Hastings Center Report, and Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. She is co-editor of Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Trust and Integrity in Biomedical Research: The Case of Financial Conflicts of Interest (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Her public-facing commentaries have appeared in Stat News, The New Republic, Time, Washington Post, and Scientific American.
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Rethinking the Rule Against Testing Children for Adult-Onset Conditions: A New Zealand Case Study
Monday, June 10, 2024
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET