Anna Mastroianni

About

Anna Mastroianni, JD, MPH, joined the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in 2022 as a Research Professor in Bioethics and Law. Her scholarly work is widely published and examines complex issues at the intersection of law, bioethics, public health, and health policy, with special emphasis on the legal and ethical challenges arising in research in pregnancy, the use of genetic technologies in public health, reproductive rights, and family building through assisted reproductive technologies. She is the executive producer (with Jeffrey Kahn) of the bioethics podcast 'playing god?' and co-investigator of the Berman Institute’s oral history project, 'Moral Histories: Voices of the Founders of Bioethics.' Professor Mastroianni is also a Charles I. Stone Emerita Professor of Law at the University of Washington, where she served as associate director of the Institute for Public Health Genetics and held faculty appointments in the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine. Her background includes practicing law and serving in legal and governmental policy positions in Washington, D.C., such as Staff Director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Study Director for the National Academy of Medicine. She is an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recognized for her contributions to health policy, law, and bioethics. Her education includes a BA in Spanish and Portuguese, a BS…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Biology
• Social Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Engineering ethics
• Intensive care medicine
• Psychology
• Medical education
• Virology

Selected publications

• Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research

  2018-04-17 · 117 citations

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  1. Changing Claims About Justice in Research: An Introduction and Overview 2. The Evolving Story of Justice in Federal Research Policy 3. Research on the Vulnerable Sick 4. Children as Research Subjects 5. Gender and Research 6. Race, Justice and Research 7. Convenient and Captive Populations 8. Justice in International Research 9. Theories of Justice in the Context of Research 10. Implementing Justice in a Changing Research Environment

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• Advancing HIV research with pregnant women

  AIDS · 2016-08-09 · 30 citations

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  OBJECTIVE: Concerns about including pregnant women in research have led to a dearth of evidence to guide safe and effective treatment and prevention of HIV in pregnancy. To better understand why these evidence gaps persist and inform guidance for responsible inclusion of pregnant women in the HIV research agenda, we aimed to learn what HIV experts perceive as barriers and constraints to conducting this research. METHODS: We conducted a series of group and one-on-one consultations with 62 HIV inv…

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• Advancing HIV research with pregnant women: navigating challenges and opportunities

  UNC Libraries · 2020-03-26 · 16 citations

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  Concerns about including pregnant women in research have led to a dearth of evidence to guide safe and effective treatment and prevention of HIV in pregnancy. To better understand why these evidence gaps persist and inform guidance for responsible inclusion of pregnant women in the HIV research agenda, we aimed to learn what HIV experts perceive as barriers and constraints to conducting this research.

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• Advancing maternal and perinatal health through clinical trials: key insights from a WHO global consultation

  The Lancet Global Health · 2025-03-28 · 15 citations

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  Pregnant and lactating women have long been excluded from participation in clinical research. This exclusion has resulted in the absence of high-quality evidence on the effectiveness and safety of medical products (medicines, vaccines, and other biological or biomedical products) during pregnancy and lactation, and fragmented health policies and practice recommendations. Based on the discussions at the inaugural WHO Global Clinical Trials Forum in November, 2023, a rapid review of key global, re…

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• Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics

  2019-01-01 · 2 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Ruth Faden

  Johns Hopkins University

  66 shared

• Jeffrey Kahn

  53 shared

• Leslie Meltzer Henry

  University of Maryland, Baltimore

  43 shared

• Margaret Olivia Little

  28 shared

• Kristen Sullivan

  26 shared

• R. Jean Cadigan

  26 shared

• Emily Namey

  Family Health International 360

  26 shared

• Daniel D. Federman

  26 shared

Awards & honors

• Fellow of The Hastings Center
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sc…

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