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Mary Crowley
Director of Public Affairs and Communications

Mary Crowley joined The Hastings Center in June, 2007 as Director of Public Affairs and Communications. She is developing a new department that will use the Center’s expertise to inform policy makers, journalists, and opinion leaders on crucial issues in bioethics. Among these are health care reform, especially the uninsured; health care quality and disparities; end-of-life care; and technological developments such as cloning, stem cell research, and genetic testing. This effort is part of “Bioethics and the Public Interest,” a Hastings Center initiative designed to promote thoughtful public conversations about ethical issues in health care and the life sciences. The initiative received initial funding from a generous grant from the Ford Foundation.

Prior to joining The Hastings Center, Crowley spent four years as a consultant for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on its Cover the Uninsured campaign. She also reported on medical ethics and public policy for the New York Academy of Sciences and for the Policy Research Institute for the Region at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for International Affairs. Previously, Crowley was co-founder and editorial director of Praxis Press, an internet medical publisher, and executive editor of the Johns Hopkins Medical Letter.

Crowley has written widely on health and health policy for international media, including Newsweek, the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Lancet, Glamour, Redbook, and McCall’s. A graduate of Columbia University’s Barnard College, she is pursuing an advanced degree in philosophy, with a focus on bioethics, at the Graduate Center of the City of New York.