Kelsey N. Berry, PhD

Kelsey N. Berry, PhD is Faculty Director of the Graduate Ethics in Fellowship Program at Harvard's Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics where she also conducts research on the ethics, design, and policies of health systems and institutions. She is formerly Associate Director of the Master of Science in Bioethics program and Director of the Foundations of Bioethics course sequence at the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. She received her PhD in health policy and ethics from Harvard University.

In her research, Kelsey employs empirical and normative methods to analyze health policy and support progress toward ethical systems of health and health care. Special emphases of her work include the application of theories of justice to health system design and strategy, the ethics of rationing scarce health resources, the distribution of responsibility for health and social determinants of health (SDOH), effective models for managing ethical questions in healthcare payer and delivery organizations, and policy approaches to support the health of vulnerable populations.

In tandem with her research, Kelsey cultivates scholarship and practice in ethics through her leadership of and teaching in Harvard's fellowship and degree programs in ethics and bioethics. She also consults to health organizations about the values associated with particular decisions or activities for which they are responsible and methods for making hard choices in the face of conflicting values. Through her research, teaching, and service, Kelsey is dedicated to developing practices that will enable all of us to acknowledge what we owe to one another in our shared systems of health and healthcare.