Bruce Jennings is Developmental Editor of Humans & Nature Press Books and Senior Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature. He is on the faculty of Vanderbilt University in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and in the Department of Health Policy. He is a Fellow of The Hastings Center, where he was on the research staff from 1980-2006 and served as Executive Vice President from 1991 through 1999. He has published widely on ethical and social issues in hospital treatment decision making, palliative care, and hospice. He was the co-founder of the “Decisions Near the End of Life” program, an educational and practice change program that was conducted in over 200 hospitals in 20 states from 1990-1996. Jennings has been a leader in ethics research and education in the field of public health. He was on the faculty of the School of Public Health at Yale University and worked on ethics education with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. In 2019 he received a lifetime achievement award from the American Public Health Association for his work in public health ethics. He has written or edited over thirty books, including Ecological Governance: Toward a New Social Contract with the Earth. More about Bruce and his work can be found at https://my.vanderbilt.edu/brucejennings/about-me/
