Emma Tumilty is an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities, and holds the Hobby Family Professorship in Medical Humanities. She is also a member of the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, the Institute for Translational Science and the Centre for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics and a member of the Houston Methodist Patient Engagement, Diversity and Education Research Laboratory. She has experience working as a research ethics consultant and clinical ethics consultant and is the current Chair of the Research Education and Community Health Coalition (REACH) in Galveston and Co-Coordinator the international group, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
In her practice as consultant, educator, or researcher she centers issues of justice and access using feminist, community-engaged, and patient-centered approaches to address resource allocation, access and disadvantage in research and clinical care. Dr. Tumilty has coauthored a book on research ethics practice for emerging researchers and co-edited a book on the ethics of transhumanism and biohacking. She has written five book chapters, 28 publications, and has engaged in other forms of dissemination and public scholarship including invited talks, podcasts, media and blogs. She is currently the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Feminist Bioethics, as well as an Associate Editor for Research Ethics, the Journal of Empirical Research in Human Research Ethics, and Progress in Community Health Partnerships.