Naomi Scheinerman, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Division of Bioethics within the College of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Education and Anatomy. As a political theorist/bioethicist specializing in democratic theory and moral and political philosophy, her work engages with normative, conceptual, institutional, regulatory, and legal questions in science, medicine, and technology. Her three main areas of focus are analyzing the role of democratic deliberation when regulating new and emerging technologies; examining the concern of exploitation in human subject research and labor; and exploring the complexities of consent in a variety of domains, including governance, relationships, and clinical research trials and biobanks.
Prior to joining the faculty at OSU, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy (2020-2023), an AI Initiative Joint Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University's EJS Center for Ethics and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (2019-2020), and received her PhD from Yale University's Department of Political Science (2015-2019).
