Lisa Campo-Engelstein

Lisa Campo-Engelstein is an American bioethicist and fertility/contraceptive researcher. She currently works at the University of Texas Medical Branch as the Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine Professor, the Director of the Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities, and an Associate Professor in Preventive Medicine and Population Health. She is also a feminist bioethicist specializing in reproductive ethics and sexual ethics. She has been recognized in the BBC's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019. Education Campo-Engelstein completed her bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Middlebury College in 2001, with a double major in philosophy and pre-med and a minor in sociology, followed by her master’s and PhD degrees in philosophy at Michigan State University in 2005 and 2009, respectively, with a focus on bioethics and feminist theory. She also obtained a graduate certificate in clinical ethics consultation from Albany Medical College in 2013. Afterwards she went on to obtain a postdoctoral fellowship with the Oncofertility Consortium at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Research Campo-Engelstein’s research focuses on various topics within reproductive ethics and sexual ethics, such as male contraception, fertility preservation, sexual organ transplant and extreme surgeries, abortion, queer bioethics, and rape. She consistently researches, writes, teaches, and speaks nationally on these topics, with prominent news focusing on her work in male contraceptives. Some of her main projects are: