Alex John London

Alex John London, PhD, is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His work focuses on issues of risk assessment in human-subjects research, issues of justice and fairness in international research, and non-paternalistic foundations for research regulation and oversight. Author of over 40 papers and book chapters, Professor London’s work on research ethics has appeared in Science, The Lancet, PLoS Medicine, Clinical Trials, The Hastings Center Report, and numerous other journals and collections. He has been commissioned to write papers for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and for the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and he is currently a member of the Ethics Working Group of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN). Professor London was elected a Fellow of the Hastings Center in 2011 and has received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is also co-editor of Ethical Issues In Modern Medicine (McGraw Hill), one of the most widely used and respected textbooks in medical ethics.