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Maureen Kelley, PhD
Maureen Kelley, PhD, is assistant professor at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics. At the University of Washington School of Medicine, she is assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics. Professor Kelley received her BA from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and her PhD from Rice University, where she completed a Presidential Fellowship. In 1999, she was awarded a Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Professor Kelley conducts research on ethical issues in pediatric global health and international research ethics. Her current research projects include supporting adolescent decision-making in resource-poor settings, barriers to HIV/AIDS prevention among at-risk adolescents, promoting the capacities of children and adolescents orphaned by AIDS, infant feeding practices in HIV-infected mothers and the role of moral compromise in global health practice and policy.
As part of the NIH Comprehensive International Program of Research on AIDS, Professor Kelley is currently working with Dr. Susan Miller and Dr. Alexander Chernov in Tomsk, Siberia, to develop a research ethics program.
She is also involved in an ongoing collaboration with the faculty in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Zambia School of Medicine. The project involves at-risk children and adolescents in Lusaka, Zambia, and was originally sponsored by the Fogarty Framework Grant in Global Health, National Institutes of Health and the Sparkman Center for Global Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Professor Kelley lectures nationally and internationally on bioethical issues related to global health and pediatrics, and has been extensively published on issues in international research ethics, human subject protections in the context of emerging infections and biodefense research and the moral dilemmas faced by the challenges of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
She has served on the Policy, Ethics and Law core for the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense, sponsored by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
In 2007, Professor Kelley won the Director’s Teaching Award from the University of Alabama Honors Program. She is currently completing a book on the reasons and limits of moral compromise, with applications in global health.
