Bio

Curriculum Vitae (updated June 2016)

Stephanie Morain is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine.  Her research applies empirical and normative analysis to evaluate issues at the intersection of ethics, law, and policy, with a particular focus on the appropriate scope of government authority in public health interventions.  Prior to her appointment at Baylor, she was a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.

She completed her PhD in 2014 through Harvard University's Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, with a concentration in Ethics. Her dissertation research, funded through a grant by the Greenwall Foundation and a Graduate Fellowship from the Safra Center, examined the moral legitimacy of public health interventions and the oversight of faculty-industry collaborations in US medical schools.  She supplemented her research through teaching fellowships, serving assisting in five terms of a masters-level public health ethics course, as well as the 2011-2012 Teaching Fellow for the doctoral-level "Core" course in health policy.

Prior to matriculation at Harvard, Stephanie graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Lafayette College in 2007 with an AB in Biology and History, Government, and Law. She received her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in 2009 with a concentration in the History and Ethics of Public Health.  An Iowa native, Stephanie continues to cheer on her Hawkeyes from the East Coast.

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