Research Interests:
- Emotions and Decision-making
- Empathy and Healthcare Ethics
- Public Health Ethics / Distributitve Justice
- Patient Autonomy, Agency and Human Rights
Jodi Halpern completed her undergraduate work at Yale University with a BA in Philosophy. She received her MD from Yale University, a MA and a PhD in Philosophy from Yale University.
Jodi Halpern has served as a Fellow in the Townsend Center for the Humanities. She was a Co-chair for the Conference on Genomics, Science and Society at UC Berkeley in April 2003. She served on a Steering Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Scholar’s Program on Health & Society. She is a reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association.
She has received the Martin Sisters Chair at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She also received The Porter Prize for overall outstanding PhD. dissertation at Yale University. She will be teaching HMS 200 Series (medical curriculum), Public Health ethics course, and master’s thesis seminar. In addition, Halpern received a Greenwall Faculty Fellowship for 2005-2008. Her research focuses on emotions and decision-making.
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