R. Alta Charo, J.D. (2016)
R. Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is on the faculties of the law and medical schools. She is an elected member of the National Academies' Institute of Medicine and author of numerous articles and government reports on ethics, policy and regulation related to the life sciences. At the Academies, she was a member of the Board on Life Sciences and currently is a member of its Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.
Charo has served on a variety of Academy committees, including the Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent Destructive Applications of Biotechnology, the Committee on Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation, and the committee to review the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the country’s national system for the assurance of drug safety. More recently she co-chaired the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee and served on the committee reviewing health outcomes of the childhood vaccine schedule.
Charo’s government service has included membership on the 1994 NIH Human Embryo Research Panel and the 1996–2001 National Bioethics Advisory Commission serving President Bill Clinton. She served on President Obama's transition team, where she was a member of the Department of Health and Human Services review team, focusing her attention particularly on transition issues related to NIH, FDA, bioethics, stem cell policy and women’s reproductive health. From 2009 to 2011, Charo was on leave from the University of Wisconsin to serve as a senior policy advisor on emerging technology issues in the Office of the Commissioner at the FDA.
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