Jason Gaverick Matheny
Jason Gaverick Matheny
Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
University
PhD
student, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
jmatheny@jhsph.edu
202-486-1306
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Interests:
emerging disruptive
technologies, catastrophic risks, science and technology policy, health policy,
economics, evaluation, ethics, agriculture
Current employers:
Center for Biosecurity, Applied Physics Laboratory
(JHU), New Harvest
Past employers:
World Bank, Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of
Public Health, Princeton University's Center for Human Values,
Center for Global Development, Population Services International, Packard Foundation, Family Health International, Seva Foundation.
Articles
Matheny,
J.G., B. Smith, B. Courtney, M. Mair, "Developing Drugs and Vaccines for
Infectious Diseases," Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 85(6),
2009.
Matheny, J.G., M.M. Cirkovic, A. Sandberg, "How can we
reduce the risk of human extinction?" Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists
, September
2008.
Matheny, J.G., M. Mair, B. Smith, "Biodefense: how costly
and how likely to succeed?" Nature Biotechnology 26(9),
2008.
Abramovich, M.N., E.S. Toner, J.G. Matheny,
"Panalysis: A New Spreadsheet-Based Tool for Pandemic Planning"
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 6(1), 2008.
Matheny, J.G., "Reducing the risk of
human extinction,"
Risk Analysis
27(5), 2007. Coverage by Nature and
Faculty of
1000.
Matheny, J.G., M. Mair,
A. Mulcahy, B.T. Smith, "Incentives for biodefense countermeasure development,"
Biosecurity
and Bioterrorism 5(3), 2007.
Gronvall, G.K., J.G.
Matheny, B.T. Smith, et al., "Flexible Defense Roundtable Meeting: Promoting the
Strategic Innovation of Medical Countermeasures,"
Biosecurity and
Bioterrorism 5(3), 2007.
Gronvall, G.K., B.T.
Smith, J.G. Matheny, et al., "Biomedical Advanced Research and Development
Authority (BARDA) Roundtable,"
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 5(2),
2007.
Matheny, J.G., E. Toner, R.E.
Waldhorn,
"Costs and benefits of pandemic preparedness atU.S. hospitals," Journal of Health Care Finance34(1), 2007.
Matheny, J.G., C. Leahy, "Farm animal
welfare, legislation, and global trade,"
Law and
Contemporary Problems 70:325-57, 2007.
Matheny, J.G., K.M.A. Chan, "Human diets
and animal welfare,"
Journal of Agricultural
and Environmental Ethics 18 (6), 2005.
Edelman, P.E., D.C. McFarland, V.A. Mironov, J.G. Matheny,
"In vitro cultured meat production,"
Tissue Engineering 11 (5/6), 2005.
Matheny, J.G., "Family planning programs:
getting the most for the money,"
International Family Planning Perspectives
30 (3), 2004.
Matheny, J.G., "Least harm,"
Journal of Agricultural and
Environmental Ethics, 16 (5), 2003.
Matheny, J.G., "Expected utility, contributory
causation, and vegetarianism,"
Journal of
Applied Philosophy, 19 (3), 2002.
Book chapters
Matheny, J.G., "Alternatives to meat production," in Swabe
(ed.) Meat the Truth: Essays on Livestock Production, Sustainability and
Climate Change, forthcoming.
Fearing, J., J.G. Matheny, "The Role of Economics in
Achieving Welfare Gains for Animals,"
in D.
Salem and A. Rowan (eds.), State of the Animals IV, Humane Society of
the United States, 2007.
Levine, R.,
A. Langer, N. Birdsall, J.G. Matheny, M. Wright, A. Bayer, "Contraception,"
in Disease
Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd ed., D.T. Jamison, et al.
(eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Matheny, J.G.
"Utilitarianism and animals," in Peter Singer, ed., In Defense of Animals, Blackwell,
2005.
Unfinished
papers
Stafforini, P., J.G. Matheny, M.M.
Cirkovic, "Ought we worry about human
extinction?"
Press mentions and
appearances
My
work with New Harvest has been covered by the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the
Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, National Public Radio, NOVA, CBS
Evening News, Wired Magazine, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Boston
Globe, Baltimore Sun, BBC, Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent, Daily
Mail, Der Spiegel, Maclean's, and more than 100 other media outlets. The New
York Times Magazine included our work in its "Year in Ideas” issue; Discover Magazine
called it one of the “Top 100 Science Stories of the Year.”
Education
Ph.D.
Applied Economics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland, in progress
M.P.H.
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland, 2004
M.B.A.
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, 2003
B.A.
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1996
Recommended books and
papers
Astronomical Waste
by Nick Bostrom
The Next Really Big
Enormous Thing by Robin Hanson
Catastrophe
by Richard Posner
Practical
Ethics by Peter Singer
Weighing
Lives by John Broome
Reasons
and Persons by Derek Parfit