Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, MS, HEC-C

Elizabeth Lanphier (she/her) is a faculty member in the Ethics Center and in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UC College of Medicine and a Research Assistant Professor in the UC Department of Philosophy. Elizabeth is also affiliated faculty in the UC Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department and Center for Public Engagement With Science as well as a non-resident Fellow at the George Mason Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy.

In addition to her published scholarship in peer reviewed journals and book volumes, Elizabeth has written for a variety of outlets including the Hastings Bioethics Forum and Ms. Magazine. Her research has also been featured in "The ethical questions raised by COVID-19 vaccines: 5 essential reads" and "50 years after Roe, many ethics questions shape the abortion debate" in The Conversation as well as "What is Trauma Informed Care?" in Health, and "We're All Second Guessing Ourselves" in The Atlantic. She was quoted in TIME Magazine for the article "How Do You Even Calculate Covid-19 Risk Anymore?" and was an expert cited in "Motivated Reasoning: Emily Oster's COVID Narratives and the Attack on Public Education" in Protean Magazine.

At the University of Cincinnati Elizabeth is a Co-Director for the Humanities & Arts Interdisciplinary Medical Pathway Across Training in the College of Medicine and a faculty mentor for the Medical Student Ethics Club. She is also a steering committee member with the Institute for Research in Sensing and a member of the 2023-2026 Narrative Medicine, Compassionate Arts, and Healing Faculty Research Group with the Taft Research Center. 

Elizabeth is an elected Board Member of the Bioethics Network of Ohio and as of 2024 is BENO's Vice President. In 2024 she joined the Steering Committee of the community impact organization Joining Forces for Children that works to prevent and reverse the impact of early childhood trauma. Previously she chaired the Committee on Accessibility and Inclusion for the North American Society for Social Philosophy. From 2021-2024 she was a co-chair of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and is currently a co-editor of the Blog for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. 

Elizabeth earned her PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical ethics consultation with the Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Previously she worked in global health and humanitarian aid, and received an MS degree in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, with which she continues to be affiliated as an instructor for the narrative ethics course within the Certificate of Professional Achievement Program.