Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D.

Dr. Eric Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics; Associate Dean for Bioethics in the Indiana University School of Medicine; and Professor of Medicine, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Public Health and Philosophy.

He also co-directs the IU Center for Law, Ethics and Applied Research in Health Information (CLEAR), and the IU-Moi Academic Research Ethics Partnership, an innovative bioethics research training program in Eldoret, Kenya.

He came to Indiana in 2001 from Washington, D.C., where he previously directed bioethics research for the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) program of the Human Genome Project, and then served as Executive Director of the U.S. National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) established by President Bill Clinton.

Born in Canada, Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University in Toronto, and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Bioethics Program in Philosophy at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He has held academic positions at the University of Toronto (1988-96), as a Visiting Fellow at Green College, Oxford University (1994-95), and as Professor-at-Large at the University of Western Australia (2008-2010). He has more than 150 published articles and book chapters on topics from international health research to science policy. His most recent book is The Sage Handbook of Health Care Ethics (co-edited with Ruth Chadwick and Henk TenHave published in 2011).

Dr. Meslin sits on several boards and committees including the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs; the Board of Directors of the Indiana Public Umbilical Cord Blood Bank, and the Board of Directors of Genome Canada.  On May 9, 2007 he was appointed a Chevalier de L’Order Nationale du Mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit) by the President of France for his contributions to French bioethics policy.