Trained in political science and philosophy at Yale and Princeton Universities, after teaching for five years on the faculty of Richard Stockton College, I joined the staff of The Hastings Center in 1980 and developed my career in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics over the next 26 years. I have written and edited twenty nine books and have published approximately 260 articles on bioethics and public policy issues. In 2006 I joined the staff of the Center for Humans and Nature, which focuses on environmental ethics and policy. Overall, during the last decade my work has attempted to bridge the domains of bio-medical ethics, environmental ethics, and public health ethics.
For twelve years between 2000 and 2015 I served as an elected trustee of the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and worked on conservation and sustainability issues in the Hudson Valley.
Currently I am a Senior Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature. I am also on the faculty of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Finally, I serve as a Fellow and Senior Advisor at The Hastings Center, where I worked from 1980-2006 and served as Executive Vice President from 1991 through 1999.
In 2011 I was named Editor-in-Chief of the new 4th edition of Bioethics (formerly the Encyclopedia of Bioethics) 6 vols. (Macmillan Reference, 2014), a standard reference work in the field of bioethics. Today, I am currently an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene 5 vols. (Elsevier, 2017).
In 2019 I received a career achievement award from the American Public Health Association for my contributions to the field of public health ethics. At that same time, the APHA adopted a new and revised Code of Public Health Ethics.
I am active in ethics consultation and community service. I am currently the chair of the bioethics advisory committee of the March of Dimes. From 2003-2009 I served as member and Chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I have been a member of the boards of directors of several scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (2000-2003) and the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State (1997-2003).
For more information about my current work visit my website: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/brucejennings
Some of my articles and book chapters are available for download
on ResearchGate at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bruce_Jennings/publications
on Academia at: https://humansandnature.academia.edu/BruceJennings
on the Social Science Research Network at: http://ssrn.com/author=1865373
For my books, visit my Amazon Author's Page at https://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Jennings/e/B004VAA7K8/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1470350432&sr=1-2-ent
