Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH
Mass Family Chair in Bioethics
Director of the Center for Bioethics
University of Minnesota

Jeffrey Kahn is Mass Family Chair in Bioethics, and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He is also Professor of Medicine in the University's Medical School, and holds additional faculty appointments in the School of Public Health, and Department of Philosophy.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1996, Dr. Kahn was Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics and Assistant Professor of Bioethics, at the Medical College of Wisconsin. From April 1994 to October 1995, he was Associate Director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. The Committee's work culminated in the publication of a thousand page report, published in book form by Oxford University Press under the title The Human Radiation Experiments (1996).

Dr. Kahn works in a variety of areas of bioethics, exploring the intersection of ethics and public health policy, including; research ethics, ethics and genetics, and ethical issues in public health. His degrees are in microbiology (BA, UCLA, 1983); health policy (MPH, Johns Hopkins, 1988); and philosophy/bioethics (PhD, Georgetown, 1989). He has published over 75 articles in both the bioethics and medical literature. Dr. Kahn has served on numerous state and federal advisory panels, and speaks nationally and internationally on a range of bioethics topics. His most recent book is entitled Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research, published by Oxford University Press. From 1998-2002 he also wrote the bi-weekly column "Ethics Matters" on CNN.com.