Dr. Faith Fletcher is an Associate Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine and a Hastings Center Fellow. She currently serves as Chair of The Hastings Center Fellows Council, Co-Director of The Hastings Center’s Undergraduate Summer Bioethics Program, and a mentor for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Bioethics Mentorship Program.

Dr. Fletcher’s empirical research, which has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Society of Family Planning, addresses pressing health concerns and inequities affecting historically marginalized populations. Her scholarship centers on reproductive health and autonomy, informed decision-making, structural stigma, and trustworthiness in research and health care settings.

Dr. Fletcher received advanced training through Fordham University’s HIV Research Ethics Training Institute and contributed to the American Public Health Association’s Code of Public Health Ethics. She is also a member of the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics (Class of 2026), where her work examines the role of bioethicists in advancing maternal health equity among Black women in the U.S.

In collaboration with an antiracism task force, Dr. Fletcher co-led The Hastings Center Special Report: A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism Through Intergenerational Dialogue. She also recently served on the National Academies’ Committee on Newborn Screening, where she contributed to ethics and equity-focused discussions.