Dan Wikler
American philosopher
Daniel Isaac Wikler (born 1946) is an American public health educator, philosopher, and medical ethicist. He is the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Emeritus in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. He is director and a core faculty member in the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health (PEH). His current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects, organ transplant ethics, and ethical dilemmas arising in public health practice, and he teaches several courses each year. He is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.
Career
Wikler is the son and third child of the late Abraham Wikler and Ada Fay Wikler. He was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was graduated from Henry Clay High School. His sister is Marjorie Senechal.
Wikler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1967. He served for two years (1968–1970) as Social Science Analyst in NIMH, the National Institute of Mental Health, in Washington, DC. He completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.
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