Dan Wikler
Dan Wikler | |
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 Wikler in 2011 | |
| Born | Daniel Isaac Wikler May 21, 1946 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. |
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| Children | 3, including Ben |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Oberlin College (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
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School or tradition | Ethical philosophy |
| Institutions | National Institute of Mental Health World Health Organization Harvard University |
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Daniel Isaac Wikler (born 1946) is an American public health educator, philosopher, and medical ethicist. He is the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Emeritus in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. He is director and a core faculty member in the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health (PEH). His current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects, organ transplant ethics, and ethical dilemmas arising in public health practice, and he teaches several courses each year. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.