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Gerard Vong, DPhil

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (Bioethics)
Center for Ethics, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

Gerard Vong is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for Bioethics at the Center for Ethics at Emory University. Prior to joining Emory, he was a faculty fellow-in-residence at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, and Jane Eliza Procter graduate fellow at Princeton University. He completed graduate studies at Oxford University (B.Phil and D.Phil) and undergraduate studies at the Australian National University (BA and BSci).

Dr. Vong is known for his research and policy work on the ethical and systematic allocation of scarce healthcare resources, with a particular focus on the fair lottery allocation of certain resources. In addition to publishing in Ethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, and Bioethics, he is a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Sortition, and has consulted for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory Healthcare, and the British Academy.

In addition to his research and policy contributions, Dr. Vong advances the future of bioethics through cross-institutional academic leadership. In 2019, Dr. Vong founded the Graduate Bioethics Program Directors (GBPD), which promotes collaboration and shared best practices amongst advanced degree programs in bioethics throughout North America. In 2021, Dr. Vong founded the Cross-Institutional Undergraduate Sponsorship Program in Bioethics (CUSP), a leading initiative that promotes diversity and early-career development in bioethics which has financially supported over 60 students and garnered broad institutional and foundation support. Dr. Vong continues to lead GBPD and CUSP and in 2025 was elected to the Board of Directors at the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities.

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