Stephanie Morain, PhD, MPH, is the Dracopoulos Rising Professor at the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD (USA). A key focus of her research is ethical issues when research is embedding into ongoing clinical care, including pragmatic clinical trials and comparative effectiveness research. She holds several national leadership roles related to her work in research ethics, including Co-Chair of the Ethics & Regulatory Core of the NIH Pragmatic Collaboratory, Executive Committee Member of the Ethics & Regulation Core of the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory, and a member of the Clinical Trials Advisory Panel for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Her scholarship is informed by her research ethics service work, including as Co-Director of the Research Ethics Consulting Service and IRB member for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and as a member of several DSMBs.