Maureen Kelley, PhD

Maureen Kelley, PhD, is an ethics consultant for the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Bioethics at University of Washington School of Medicine, and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics and the Department of Philosophy.

She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Rice University. She has held faculty appointments at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Alabama. She serves on the Regulatory Support and Bioethics Core of the University of Washington’s Institute for Translational Health Sciences and on the steering committee for the Global Health Pathway in the Pediatric Residency Program.

She conducts research on ethical issues in pediatric global health and international research ethics, and moral conflict resolution. She is involved in international research projects in Siberia and Zambia. Current projects include: supporting adolescent decision-making for runaways, street children and orphans, improving criteria of vulnerability and risk for orphans and street children in the context of HIV/AIDS, managing the ethical dilemmas raised by infant feeding practices in HIV-infected mothers in resource-poor settings, and the role of moral compromise in global health practice and policy.