Bruce Jennings, M.A.

Director

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Bruce Jennings is Director at the Center for Humans and Nature, based in the New York office. He comes to CHN from The Hastings Center, a research institute that studies ethical and social issues in medicine, the life sciences, and the professions, where he worked for twenty-five years, serving as Executive Vice President from 1991-1999. He remains affiliated with The Hastings Center as a Senior Consultant, working principally on end of life care and health policy issues.

A political scientist by training, Mr. Jennings is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. 1971) and Princeton University (M.A. 1973). At CHN his research and writing focus on philosophical, ethical, and policy question that arise at the intersection of public health, the environmental/ecological sciences, and democratic theory and practice.

He is on the faculty of the Yale University School of Public Health, where since 1996 he has taught public health ethics, and has been a leader in ethics education in that field.

Mr. Jennings directed several research projects on the care of the dying, health policy, chronic illness and long-term care, and ethical issues in human genetics. He is also active in the area of educational and curriculum development, having co-developed three major curricula: The Decisions Near the End of Life Program (Education Development Center, 1989-96); New Choices, New Responsibilities: Ethical Issues in the Life Sciences (The Hastings Center, 1990-1996) and Ethics and Public Health: Model Curriculum (Association of Schools of Public Health, 2003).

Mr. Jennings has served on the boards of directors of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (2000-2003), American Health Decisions, (1990-Present), the American Association of Bioethics (1994-97), the Association of Politics and the Life Sciences (2000-2003), and the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State (1997-2003). He has also served as a consultant to several governmental and private organizations, including the American Hospital Association, the Centers for Disease Control, the Education Development Center, Eli Lilly and Company, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Prudential Foundation, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the Veteran’s Administration.

He has written and edited fifteen books and has published over one hundred articles on bioethics and public policy issues. His most recent books are The Perversion of Autonomy: the Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society 2nd. Ed. (2003); Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers (2003); and Faithful Living, Faithful Dying: Anglican Reflections on End-of-Life Care (2000) He is currently completing a book on dementia, self-identity, and the ethics of long-term care. Future projects include a study of public health and political theory and a critique of biotechnology.

Contact:

Bruce Jennings
Director
Center for Humans and Nature
109 W. 77th Street, Suite 2
New York, NY 10024
212-362-7170; 212-362-9592 fax
brucejennings@humansandnature.org
www.humansandnature.org