Laura M. Beskow, MPH, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Laura Beskow received her B.S. in nutrition from Iowa State University and her M.P.H. with a concentration in health law from Boston University. From 1996-1999, she worked at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, where she was Associate Director of the Stanford Program in Genomics, Ethics, and Society. She had primary responsibility for multi-faceted, interdisciplinary projects on genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility, genetic testing for Alzheimer disease, and individualizing medicine through genomics. In 1999, she received a Career Development Award through the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and worked with the CDC Office of Genetics and Disease Prevention in Atlanta. There her focus was the protection of human participants in population-based genetic research, with a particular emphasis on informed consent.
In 2005, Dr. Beskow completed her Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration, with a minor in Epidemiology, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For her dissertation research, she examined ethical and policy issues in research recruitment through cancer registries.
She is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy in the Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy. She is also a Faculty Associate in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and Associate Director of the ethics core of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute.
Contact Information
Laura Beskow
Phone: 919-668-2293
240 North Building,
Box 90141