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Josephine Johnston, LLB, MBHL
Associate for Law and Bioethics
Director of Research Operations
Josephine Johnston, a New Zealand-trained lawyer with a Masters in bioethics and health law from the University of Otago, joined the staff as Associate for Ethics, Law, and Society on August 1, 2003.
Before coming to the Hastings Center, Ms. Johnston worked on ethical and legal issues in gene therapy and stem cell research at Dalhousie University's Department of Bioethics in Halifax, Canada. She also spent a year as the research assistant for the NIH grant "Ethnicity, Citizenship, Family: Identity after the Human Genome Project" at the University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics. She has taught a variety of ethics and law classes in the medicine, dentistry, and law schools at Minnesota and the University of Otago. Before undertaking her Master's, she practiced law in both New Zealand and Germany.
At the Center Ms. Johnston’s research currently focuses on the controversies over the use of psychotropic drugs in children. She also works on issues related to neuroscience, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, stem cell research, assisted reproduction, patents, and genetics. Ms Johnston is director of research operations at the Center. She also oversees the Center’s visiting scholar and intern programs.
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Last Updated: 11 July 2006