Rebecca Walker, PhD

Rebecca Walker (she/they) Greenwall Fellow, 2001 is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill jointly appointed in the departments of Philosophy and Social Medicine. She is also adjunct in Public Policy, core faculty in the Center for Bioethics and a fellow in the Parr Center for Ethics. Walker’s work addresses biomedical research ethics (especially animal research), health justice, and professional health care ethics. Her research has appeared in premier bioethics, philosophy, medicine, and science journals. Her co-edited works include the two volume Social Medicine Reader (Duke Press 2019), Health Inequalities and Justice (UNC Press 2016) and Working Virtue (OUP 2007). Her monograph, Of Mice and Primates: Virtue Ethics and Animal Research is coming out this summer with Oxford University Press. Walker has served on multiple advisory boards across UNC, and for the state of NC and has worked as Co-I or Co-PI on multiple National Institutes of Health funded grants as well as earning several competitive faculty fellowships during her tenure. In 2021 she was elected as a Hastings Center Fellow.