{"id":5516,"name":"Bruce Jennings","url":"https:\/\/medicineandpublichealth.vanderbilt.edu\/cbmes\/","description":"Bruce Jennings is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and the Department of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt Medical Center, and holds a faculty appointment as Lecturer at the Yale University School of Public Health. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature in Chicago; and a Senior Advisor and Fellow at The Hastings Center in Garrison, NY, where he was on the research staff from 1980-2006, and served as Executive Director and Executive Vice President from 1991 through 1999.\r\nSince coming to Vanderbilt in 2015, he has taught in Foundations of Clinical Care, Learning Communities program in the School of Medicine and has delivered guest lectures in in the Masters of Public Health program and in undergraduate courses on bioethics. His research interests are interdisciplinary, spanning work in ethics and political theory in relation to policy, health, and environmental issues. He is a participant in the TIPs Ethics and Practices of Care Faculty Working Group and the Social and Political Thought seminar sponsored by the Political Science and Philosophy departments. \r\nJennings has been active in the health policy and end of life care arenas and has published widely on ethical issues in hospital treatment decision making, palliative care, and hospice. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and the Board of Trustees of the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State. He was the co-founder of the \u201cDecisions Near the End of Life\u201d program, an educational and practice change program that was conducted in over 200 hospitals in 20 states from 1990-1996.\r\nHe has also been a leader in ethics research and education in the field of public health. From 2003-2009 he served as member and Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is currently a member of a Task Force revising the public health code of ethics at the American Public Health Association. He is also the current chair of the Bioethics Advisory Committee of the March of Dimes.\r\nJennings most recent book is Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth published by the West Virginia University Press in 2016. This book grew out of his work at the Center for Humans and Nature, where since joining the organization in 2006, he has focused on environmental ethics and policy, with a special emphasis on ecological governance and ecological political economy. He edits the Center\u2019s electronic journal, Minding Nature, which began in 2008 and comes out three times per year. \r\nA political scientist by training (Yale University B.A. 1971 and Princeton University M.A. 1973), he has written and edited twenty seven books and has published approximately 200 articles on bioethics and public policy issues. In 2011 Jennings was named Editor-in-Chief of the standard reference work in the field of bioethics: Bioethics, 4th Edition, 6 vols. (Macmillan Reference USA, 2014). He is currently an associate editor for a new reference work entitled The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, to be published by Elsevier in 2017.","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brucejennings\/author\/jenninrb\/","slug":"jenninrb","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83ac16795def25cc90c91073ed0d8e8e?s=24&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83ac16795def25cc90c91073ed0d8e8e?s=48&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83ac16795def25cc90c91073ed0d8e8e?s=96&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brucejennings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/brucejennings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}