Stephen Latham
Stephen Latham
Stephen R. Latham, J.D., Ph.D., is director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of California, Berkeley’s doctoral program in jurisprudence, Latham is a former health care business and regulatory attorney and served as director of ethics standards at the American Medical Association before entering academia full-time.
Latham is a fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of its Fellows’ Council. He has been a graduate fellow of Harvard’s Safra Center on Ethics and a research fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
At Yale, Latham teaches about bioethics and environmental ethics in the College, the Law School, the School of the Environment, and the Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics. He chairs Yale’s Human Subjects Committee, co-chairs the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, serves on the Institutional Conflict of Interest Committee, and has done clinical ethics consultation on both the adult and pediatric ethics committees at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a former board member and secretary of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, from which he received a Distinguished Service Award in 2010. Latham has published more than 150 publications in bioethics and health-law in leading medical, bioethics, and health-law journals.