Zoë Hale

Zoë Hale attended the University of Washington as an undergraduate, earning a B.S. in General Biology and minoring in Bioethics & Humanities. She was also selected to be a scholar in The Hastings Center’s Summer Bioethics Program for Underrepresented Undergraduates (2023), where she engaged with distinguished scholars, learned about theoretical and applied bioethics and participated in in-depth discussions on a variety of topics within bioethics. Her research interests include the intersection of neuroscience and ethics, attending to justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) in the sciences, pediatrics, and disability studies.

She works as a Research Coordinator in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities, in Dr. Timothy Brown’s Transformative Investigations in Medical Bioethics Research (TIMBR) Lab. Her research focuses on the importance of diverse cohorts and perspectives being amplified in neuroscience and biomedical research more broadly, addressing disparities in access to hospice and palliative care, and neuroethics issues and needs related to whole brain donation and brain-atlasing.

She also works as a post-baccalaureate Research Assistant within the Seattle Children’s Research Institute Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics and Palliative Care in Dr. Kate MacDuffie’s lab. Her work in the MacDuffie lab aims to gather perspectives from parents of autistic children on the moral implications of brain organoid research.