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Stephanie Johnson serves as a Senior Researcher in Ethics at the Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford, where she holds a Wellcome Trust Fellowship. She jointly leads Oxford Population Health's MSc in Clinical Trials and collaborates extensively with Oxford's Big Data Institute while advising policy institutions including Genomics England and the Africa CDC.
Her educational background comprises an MBChB, BSc, and PhD. This medically trained bioethicist combines empirical social science with theoretical analysis to address urgent ethical challenges in public health crises.
Dr. Johnson's research centers on relational bioethics frameworks applied to infectious disease control and genomics. She investigates pandemic solidarity dynamics, ethical dimensions of pathogen tracking, and vaccine acceptance across cultural contexts. Her work bridges philosophical ethics with practical policy implementation through multi-country comparative studies.
Recent publications reveal a concentrated focus on pandemic ethics, particularly examining societal responses to COVID-19 through qualitative lenses across 9+ countries. This research portfolio demonstrates consistent exploration of ethical governance during health emergencies, with emphasis on community solidarity, data ethics in genomic surveillance, and cross-cultural moral reasoning.
Her scientific recognition includes:
- Wellcome Trust Fellowship (2020-2023) for 'the ethics of tracking microbes'
As an active mentor, Dr. Johnson supervises DPhil candidate Elise Racine and undergraduate researchers while convening Ethox/WEH's 'Grants Academy' for early-career researchers. Her funded work includes the Wellcome Fellowship and a commissioned Nuffield Council on Bioethics review of COVID-19 responses.
She operates within Oxford's Ethox Centre ecosystem while contributing to the Oxford-Johns Hopkins GLIDE Collaborative and maintaining operational links with the Big Data Institute. Her research infrastructure integrates qualitative fieldwork across European and African contexts with policy engagement at Genomics England and Africa CDC.
