Anna Mastroianni, JD, MPH, is assistant professor of law at the University of Washington. In addition to her faculty position in the Law School, Prof. Mastroianni has appointments in the Institute for Public Health Genetics, the School of Public Health and Community Medicine (Dept. of Health Services), and the School of Medicine (Dept. of Medical History and Ethics). She is currently a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics which provides funding for a 3 year research project on policy gaps and conflicts in the use of stem cells, human embryos and reproductive medicine.

Prof. Mastroianni has worked in a number of legal and governmental policy positions in Washington, DC, including Associate Director of the White House Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and as Study Director at the Institute of Medicine. As a practicing health care attorney, her clients included health care facilities, providers and managers. She has been nationally recognized for her contributions to health policy, law and bioethics by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and serves on the Nominations Committee of Section X (Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering). She has also served as co-chair of the Forum on Bioethics, American Public Health Association (APHA).

Her publications include four books and numerous articles concerning biomedical research and public health policy, including Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research (edited with J. Kahn and J. Sugarman, Oxford, 1998); Women and Health Research (edited with R. Faden and D. Federman, National Academy Press, IOM, 1994); "Swinging on the Pendulum: Shifting Views of Justice in Human Subject Research Policy," Hastings Center Report, 31(3):21-28, May-June 2002, and "HIV, Women and Access to Clinical Trials: Tort Liability and Lessons from DES," Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, 5: 167-192,1998.

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University of Washington Institute for Public Health Genetics
University of Washington School of Law, Health Law Program