Please join us on Tuesday, March 17th 2026 at 12pm-1pm PST/3pm-4pm EST for the discussion forum: “Conjoint analysis of perspectives on ethical tradeoffs in data generation project”,  by Dr. Dr. Nicholas G. Evans.

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Bio:

Dr. Nicholas G. Evans, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he co-directs the Modelling Individual and Networked Decisions (MIND) Lab. His work focuses on the intersection of ethics, infectious disease, emerging technologies, and national security. His current major projects focus on ethics of artificial intelligence, funded by the National Institutes of Health, US Army Research Laboratory DEVCOM, and Greenwall Foundation.

Dr. Evans is best known for his work on “dual-use research of concern,” beneficial scientific research that has a risk of misuse in the development of weapons of mass destruction. In 2012 he completed one of the first Ph.D. dissertations on the ethics of dual-use research of concern, where he wrote on the scope and strength of scientific freedom in the face of national security concerns. He has since published more than a dozen articles, books, and book chapters on dual-use research. In Spring 2025 he published Gain of Function with The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, providing a thoroughgoing guide to the topic, its controversies, and future.

Dr. Evans is also a recognized expert in public health ethics, writing on the ethics of social distancing, research ethics during health emergencies, and the use of force in pandemic response. His 2016 collection, Ebola’s Message: Public Health and Medicine in the 21st Century received favorable reviews in Nature from Dr. Peter Piot, who first identified the virus in 1976. His new book on the ethics of pandemic preparedness and response, War on All Fronts: A Theory of Health Security Justice, was published in May 2023. Both are available open access at The MIT Press Website.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Dr. Evans completed postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he held an Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative Fellowship at the UPMC Center for Health Security, Baltimore; has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Exeter, Bradford, and Cambridge; and is a three-time Fondation Brocher resident scholar in bioethics in Hermance, Switzerland. He is also a former policy officer with the Australian Department of Health where he worked on therapeutics regulation, and assisted reproduction policy.