Leslie Meltzer Henry

About

Leslie Meltzer Henry, JD, PhD, is a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a law professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. Her teaching and scholarship focus on issues in constitutional law, bioethics, public health law and policy, reproductive justice, and research ethics. She is an associate editor of the Oxford Handbook for Public Health Ethics and a contributor to the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Her scholarship has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals and leading law reviews, and she has guest-edited symposia for prominent journals. Professor Henry provides expert commentary for federal and local agencies, organizations, and the media. She has served as a bioethics consultant to the Department of Defense and has presented before panels of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health Bioethics Advisory Committee. She has also provided written commentary for the Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Network and has been quoted in various media outlets. Her research includes addressing the ethical and legal challenges of conducting research with pregnant women during public health emergencies and developing ethically and legally acceptable strategies for HIV research during pregnancy. Her prior experience includes a post-doctoral fellowship in bioethics and health policy, clerking for a federal judge, and founding the Yale Journal of…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Sociology
• Social Science
• Pathology
• Intensive care medicine
• Medical education
• Virology
• Family medicine
• Psychology
• Biology

Selected publications

• Scientific, ethical, and legal considerations for the inclusion of pregnant people in clinical trials

  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology · 2022-08-04 · 74 citations

  articleOpen access
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• For now, it’s unethical to use human challenge studies for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 54 citations

  Emotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving ...Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Research with Pregnant Women: New Insights on Legal Decision‐Making

  The Hastings Center Report · 2017-05-01 · 31 citations

  articleOpen access

  U.S. researchers and scholars often point to two legal factors as significant obstacles to the inclusion of pregnant women in clinical research: the Department of Health and Human Services' regulatory limitations specific to pregnant women's research participation and the fear of liability for potential harm to children born following a pregnant woman's research participation. This article offers a more nuanced view of the potential legal complexities that can impede research with pregnant women…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Advancing HIV research with pregnant women

  AIDS · 2016-08-09 · 30 citations

  articleOpen access

  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…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Brief Report: Challenges in Obtaining the Informed Perspectives of Stakeholders Regarding HIV Molecular Epidemiology

  JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes · 2023-02-20 · 18 citations

  articleOpen access

  BACKGROUND: HIV molecular epidemiology (HIV-ME) is now being used in a variety of ways, including molecular HIV surveillance to help identify and respond to emerging HIV transmission clusters as specified in the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. initiative. However, HIV-ME in general, and its use for cluster detection and response, in particular, raises significant ethical and social concerns, which have spurred vigorous debates. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of information regarding how th…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Anna C. Mastroianni

  Johns Hopkins University

  43 shared

• Ruth Faden

  Johns Hopkins University

  33 shared

• Margaret Olivia Little

  27 shared

• R. Jean Cadigan

  26 shared

• Carleigh Krubiner

  Wellcome Trust

  26 shared

• Sappho Z. Gilbert

  Harvard Global Health Institute

  26 shared

• Kristen Sullivan

  26 shared

• Emily Namey

  Family Health International 360

  26 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Religious Studies: Medical Ethics

  University of Virginia

  2016

• J.D.

  Yale University Yale Law School

  2002

• M.Sc., Economic and Social History: History of Medicine

  University of Oxford

  1998

• B.A., History and Medical Ethics

  University of Virginia

  1997

Similar researchers at Johns Hopkins University

• Mary Catherine Beachh-87
• Jeremy Sugarmanh-83