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Stephen Latham is a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. He holds appointments in Political Science and Management at Yale University. His academic roles include chairing Yale’s Human Subjects Committee (social/behavioral IRB). Latham earned a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from UC Berkeley, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University. His work bridges legal, ethical, and policy dimensions of healthcare and research.
Research interests focus on bioethics, healthcare resource allocation, research ethics governance, and the intersection of law with medical practice. He has written extensively on organ transplantation ethics, crisis standards of care during pandemics, post-mortem research ethics, and advance directive validity. His recent work explores AI applications in ethics review processes and moral resilience among healthcare providers.
Publications reflect interdisciplinary engagement with topics like xenotransplantation risks, electronic health record alert systems for kidney injury prevention, and HIV phylogenetic research ethics. Latham’s scholarship frequently addresses ethical challenges in biomedical innovation and public health policy, emphasizing practical frameworks for resolving moral dilemmas in clinical and research settings.
He has advised on institutional ethics committees and contributed to national discussions about healthcare resource allocation during crises. Current projects include exploring implications of new brain death criteria and developing ethics consultation standards in large healthcare systems.
