Jamie Webb

Jamie is a postdoctoral researcher in ethics and infectious diseases, based at the Ethox Centre as part of the Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE), working with Professor Michael Parker. As part of his fellowship, Jamie will also have a residency period at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University.

Jamie carried out his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, in the Centre for Technomoral Futures and the Centre for Biomedicine, Self & Society. His research project utilised empirical bioethics methodology, combining philosophical analysis and qualitative interviews, to make design recommendations for the ethical use of AI in healthcare resource allocation. Alongside his PhD, he was a researcher on the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator, working on its public values, transparency and governance work stream.

Prior to his PhD, Jamie was a research associate in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone, a position he took up after earning an MA in Bioethics at NYU as a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar. He gained his undergraduate degree at Pembroke College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in Philosophy and an MSci in History and Philosophy of Science, before completing the Teach First Leadership Development Programme.