Kyle Ferguson

Kyle Ferguson, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Specializing in bioethics and environmental ethics, he teaches and writes about moral, social, and political issues in science, technology, health, and the environment. His current research focuses on the ethics of climate change adaptation and resilience. In 2022, he co-founded with Dale Jamieson and Arthur Caplan the NYU Working Group on Climate and Health, which brought together researchers from across NYU’s many schools to develop a research program on building societal resilience to climate change–related health risks. Since 2018, he co-led the NYU–University of Ghana Research Integrity Training Program (NYU-UG RITP), a bioethics program funded by the Fogarty International Center, NIH. In addition to training nearly 50 fellows from Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, NYU-UG RITP established Ghana's first graduate program in bioethics, the M.Sc. in Bioethics Program at the University of Ghana School of Public Health. Ferguson received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center and his B.A. in Philosophy from Augustana College. He completed an ethics fellowship in the Bioethics Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He has taught environmental ethics at NYU College Arts & Science, public health ethics at NYU School of Global Public Health, medical ethics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and philosophy at Baruch College, Lehman College, and the University of Pittsburgh.

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