Vardit Ravitsky

Vardit Ravitsky is a bioethicist, researcher, and author. She is president and CEO of The Hastings Center, a full professor at the University of Montreal, and a senior lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is immediate-past president and current vice-president of the International Association of Bioethics, and the director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics. She is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, where she chaired the COVID-19 Impact Committee. She is also Fellow of The Hastings Center and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Ravitsky has published over 200 research articles and commentaries in bioethics, with a focus on the ethical, social, and policy implications of genomics and reproductive technologies. She leads several research projects, funded by the National Institutes of Health and by Canada's national and provincial funding agencies, and has been awarded a McConnell-University of Montreal Research Chair. She is lead editor of the ''Penn Center Guide to Bioethics''. Provided by Wikipedia