Joseph Ali, JD

• Associate Director for Global Programs
  Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
• Assistant Professor, Department of International Health
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Joe Ali’s research and teaching engages a range of challenges in domestic and global health ethics. This includes empirical and normative work in U.S. and international research ethics, and projects that address the implications of emerging global mobile and digital technologies as applied in the context of health research, public health programs, and disease surveillance. He is particularly interested in how values are expressed, represented, prioritized, preserved and influenced in the context of digital technologies.

As core faculty and associate director for global programs at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, he works with colleagues at JHU and other institutions internationally to advance the development of multidisciplinary research, training and service partnerships in bioethics. Ali is committed in his work to collaboratively supporting the capacity of scholars from resource constrained countries and settings to lead bioethics research, teaching and practice on issues of local importance. He has been involved in establishing and operating NIH Fogarty-funded non-degree, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral programs in bioethics at Johns Hopkins and with partners in Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana and Malaysia. He also co-leads the Wellcome-funded Oxford University-Johns Hopkins University Global Infectious Disease Ethics (GLIDE) Collaborative which supports research and training between the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Oxford Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities to address emerging issues involving ethics and infectious disease.

Ali serves as a member of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the JHSPH Faculty Senate. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics and an Editorial Board member for the journal Accountability in Research. Ali teaches courses in international research ethics and public health ethics at JHU.