Dana Howard is a philosopher interested in bioethics, political philosophy, and normative ethics. She conducts empirical and normative research regarding surrogate decision-making, the norms of advising, the ethics of biobanking, and the relationship between medicine and disability. Prior to coming to the Center of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the Ohio State University Medical Center, she was a bioethics fellow at the NIH Clinical Center Department of Bioethics from 2015 to 2017. There she engaged in research, participated in the bioethics consultation service for the Clinical Center as well as the intramural IRB review program. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brown University in 2014.