Dr Tess Johnson
About
Dr Tess Johnson is a bioethics postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Oxford's Ethox Centre, in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, having received her DPhil from Oxford's Faculty of Philosophy.
Her area of focus is infectious disease ethics, with particular interests in antimicrobial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, and pathogen surveillance.
She is a postdoctoral fellow on the GLIDE collaborative, a Wellcome Trust-funded research collaboration in infectious disease ethics between Johns Hopkins University and Oxford.
Dr Johnson is also Coordinator of the Oxford Early Career Researcher Training Programme, a lecturer and supervisor for the Oxford Master of Studies in Practical Ethics, and a fellow of Reuben College.
Expertise
- Drug resistance, antimicrobial resistance ethics
- COVID-19 ethics
- Public health policy ethics
- Human enhancement ethics
- Reproductive ethics
Selected publications
Media experience
Dr Tess Johnson has experience being interviewed on Breakfast News Radio (ABC Melbourne Breakfast with Sammy J) about work on the ethics of ‘nudging’ and has also given interviews for podcasts for generalist audiences as well as those aimed at schools outreach. Dr Johnson has also written for publications such as The Conversation and The New Humanist magazine. See examples opposite.
Recent media work
- Stopping the Superbugs (New Humanist, 2023)
- Interviewee on ‘Genetic Enhancement and Bioethics’ for the Hardcore Humanities Podcast (2022)
- Playground politics or primer for inaction? Sammy J could be a "nudge" toward political complacency (ABC, 2021)
- Oxford Sparks Live: Gene editing - is it ethical? (2020)
- Human genetic enhancement might soon be possible – but where do we draw the line? (The Conversation, 2019)
Languages
English