Leah Pierson

Leah Pierson is a first-year internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, having completed her MD at Harvard Medical School in 2025 and her PhD at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2023. She holds a BA in Human Rights from Brown University. Her doctoral research focused on ethical issues in global health priority setting, and she previously held fellowships at the NIH Department of Bioethics, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. Her academic publications include the Views in Bioethics Survey (surveying over 800 American bioethicists), published in The American Journal of Bioethics in 2024, as well as work in BMJ, Lancet Global Health, Annals of Internal Medicine, and other journals. She co-authored a 2023 BMJ editorial arguing that misaligned AI constitutes a growing public health threat, establishing her connection to AI safety discourse. She co-hosts the podcast Bio(un)ethical, which explores controversial issues in medicine, science, and public health.

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