Lisa Campo-Engelstein, PhD

Lisa Campo-Engelstein is the Director of the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, the Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities, and the Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Trained in philosophy, she approaches topics in medicine from a feminist and queer perspective. She specializes in reproductive ethics, especially assisted reproductive technologies, abortion, fertility preservation, male contraception, and queer reproduction. She has been published in leading journals in medicine, science, bioethics, and feminist theory, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Science, the Hastings Center Report, and Hypatia. Additionally, she is the coeditor of four books— Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics (2025); Reproductive Ethics: New Ideas and Innovations; Reproductive Ethics: New Challenges and Conversations (2017); and Oncofertility: Ethical, Legal, Social, and Medical Perspectives (2010).

Dr. Campo-Engelstein has been interviewed by premier national and international news organizations including National Public Radio, The New Yorker, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC recognized her research as engendering a better future for women, naming her as one of the 100 “inspiring and influential” Women of 2019.   

She is an Elected Board Member for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and the America Society for Bioethics and Humanities Board. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the Male Contraception Initiative and Alliance for Fertility Preservation.