Daniel Wikler

Prof. Wikler’s research has focused on the identification and investigation of bioethical issues arising in respect to health at the population and global levels, including value choices embedded in the measurement of the global burden of disease, in methods for priority-setting among health services, and in issues arising in health promotion, including the assignment of responsibility for adverse outcomes of heath-affecting personal choices. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2002, he served as the first staff ethicist for the World Health Organization and as staff philosopher for the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, under Presidents Carter and Reagan. Among his books, co-authored or co-edited with colleagues in several disciplines, are From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (Cambridge), WHO’s Casebook on Ethical Issues in International Health Research; Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures, and Ethics (Oxford), and Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions (Oxford).