Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Senior Lecturing Fellow, Science & Society

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Social Science Research Institute

Janet Malek, Ph.D. a Senior Lecturing Fellow and Co-Director of Graduate Studies in Duke’s Initiative for Science & Society, as well as the Program Director for Bioethics Outreach in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine. She served as a clinical ethics consultant at Houston Methodist Hospital, which now informs her work teaching ethics and professionalism to a range of learners from master’s students to medical students and residents to faculty.

Dr. Malek chairs the Ethics Committee for the North American Fetal Therapy Network, serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians’ ethics committee, and is a Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Academy for Professionalism in Health Care. Her research focuses on issues related to clinical ethics, reproductive decision making, fetal and pediatric ethics, and professionalism education.