Nicolle Strand is the Director of the Center for Health Justice and Bioethics, as well as an Associate Professor, at Temple’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine. Nicolle holds a JD and a Masters in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Masters in Public Health from Temple. Her current focus is on advocacy and culture change in medicine, abolition bioethics, and racism in academic medicine. Before joining Temple, she was a Senior Policy and Research Analyst for the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues under President Barack Obama. There, she contributed to work on genomics and privacy, incidental findings in clinical and research settings, neuroscience research and consent capacity, neuroscience applications in law and policy, ethics education and democratic deliberation, and research ethics law and policy. She also spent time at the US Food and Drug Administration, and at the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of General Counsel. Professor Strand has written on informed consent, genomic research, incidental findings, and neuroscientific cognitive enhancement. She has spoken widely at bioethics and research ethics conferences, including the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research annual Advancing Ethical Research conference, and the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities annual conference.
