Ruth Faden

American scientist and academic Ruth FadenChair of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation ExperimentsIn office1994–1995PresidentBill ClintonPreceded byposition establishedSucceeded byposition abolished Personal detailsBornPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania (B.A.)University of Chicago (M.A.)University of California, Berkeley (MPH, Ph.D.) Ruth R. Faden is an American scientist, academic, and founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She was the Berman Institute's Director from 1995 until 2016, and the inaugural Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director from 2014 to 2016. Faden is the inaugural Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics. 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 President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, which she chaired. Faden co-launched the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, sponsor of the 7 by 5 Agenda for Ethics and Global Food Security. She is also a co-founder of the Hinxton Group, a global community committed to advancing ethical and policy challenges in stem cell scien