Jason Gaverick Matheny
Jason Gaverick Matheny
PhD
student
Bloomberg School of Public
Health
Johns Hopkins University
jmatheny@jhsph.edu
202-486-1306
jgmatheny.org, Facebook, LinkedIn
Interests
: catastrophic risks, emerging
disruptive technologies, 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., 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,
forthcoming.
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
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
Matheny, J.G., " 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, 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 called our work one of the “best ideas of 2005;” Discover
Magazine called it one of the “Top 100 Science Stories of 2005.”
Education
Ph.D.
Health 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
The Next Really Big
Enormous Thing by Robin Hanson
Astronomical Waste
by Nick Bostrom
Catastrophe
by Richard Posner
Practical
Ethics by Peter Singer
Reasons
and Persons by Derek Parfit
Weighing
Lives by John Broome