Academic publisher Taylor & Francis has announced that Dr. Holly Taylor will assume the editorship of AJOB (American Journal of Bioethics) Empirical Bioethics, beginning with Volume 7, 2016. Dr. Taylor has been a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics since 1999. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she earned her PhD. Theo Schall, a staff research coordinator at the Berman Institute, will work with Dr. Taylor as Managing Editor of the journal.
Dr. Taylor has training in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and has used these skills to explore a range of issues in applied research ethics and public health research. Her current research portfolio includes projects on Central IRBs, the role of partners in dementia research; the willingness of US local health department staff to respond to an infectious disease emergency; provision of ancillary care in international public health research; and enhancing cost effective analysis with an assessment of social justice in the context of MDR-TB in Africa.
Dr. Taylor also trains and mentors students pursuing empirical doctoral studies in bioethics and health policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School, and teaches in the Berman Institute of Bioethics intensive-course program. She has consulted on policy related to research oversight, informed consent, and research with children for the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, the Institute of Medicine, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control. Prior to her career in academia, Dr. Taylor served as a Presidential Management Intern with the Department of Health and Human Services, working on AIDS policy in a variety of settings, followed by two years as Special Assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
A widely read journal on bioethics, AJOB contains peer-reviewed Target Articles that zero in on tough questions, answered by Open Commentary articles from scholars across disciplines and cultures. The American Journal of Bioethics provides an authoritative, annotated conversation that has been used by judges, Senators, journalists, scholars, schoolteachers, and millions of others as the key source on thousands of topics in the health sciences.
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