Kelsey N. Berry, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at the Center for Bioethics and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she is also Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Bioethics Degree Program, Co-Director of the Master of Bioethics Degree Virtual Program, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Medical School Organizational Ethics Consortium. For the 2023-24 academic year, she will co-direct the Edmond & Lily Safra Center Graduate Fellowship Program with Mathias Risse. 

As a health policy researcher and ethicist, Kelsey employs empirical and normative methods to analyze health policy and support progress toward ethical systems of health and health care. The majority of Kelsey’s work addresses the intersection of health, population level ethics, and social justice. Special emphases of her research include the ethics of rationing scarce health resources, the distribution of responsibility for health and social determinants of health (SDOH), effective models for managing ethical questions in health care systems and organizations, and policy approaches to support the health of vulnerable populations. In tandem with her research, Kelsey educates future leaders in bioethics through her leadership of and teaching in the Master of Bioethics program at Harvard Medical School. She also consults to organizations in the health sector regarding the values-based dimensions of the activities and decisions for which they are responsible and methods for making hard choices in the face of conflicting values.

Through her research, teaching, and service, Kelsey is committed to developing practices that will enable all of us to acknowledge what we owe to one another in community and in our shared systems of health and health care.