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Joseph Ali, JD, is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He holds a JD from the University of Pittsburgh (2006) and a BA from the University of Toronto (2003). His research focuses on global health ethics, digital health technologies, and capacity-building initiatives in low-resource settings. Ali leads the Wellcome-funded GLIDE Collaborative, advancing ethical frameworks for infectious disease research. He has pioneered work on ethics in digital contact tracing, mobile health surveys, and pragmatic clinical trials.
His research interests span bioethics, research ethics, global health policy, and digital health governance. Notable projects include evaluating ethical challenges in PCORnet, designing mobile phone-based non-communicable disease surveillance systems, and establishing Fogarty-funded bioethics training programs in Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, and Malaysia. Ali has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles on ethics in global health research, including seminal work on consent processes in emergency care and mobile health methodologies.
- Recipient of Excellence in Teaching (2019, 2020)
- 10 People to Watch Under 30 (2011)
- Staff Recognition Award (2009)
- Teplitz Memorial Award (2006)
Ali co-leads the Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing, producing guidance for pandemic response technologies. His work integrates empirical and normative ethics approaches to address emerging issues in global health innovation, particularly in digital technologies' ethical implications.
