Josephine Johnston

Josephine Johnston is an expert on the ethical, legal, and policy implications of new biomedical technologies. Her scholarly work has appeared in medical, scientific, policy, law, and bioethics journals, including NEJM, Science, Nature, Hastings Center Report, and Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. She has also written for Stat News, New Republic, Time, Washington Post, and The Scientist and is interviewed frequently by the media, appearing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Wired, Vice Media, and ABC’s “Nightline.” Her current projects focus on advances in prenatal testing, gene editing, and the creation of human-animal chimeras.

Johnston is Director of Research and a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York, U.S.A. She holds degrees in law and bioethics from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.