About Adam:

Adam Shriver joined The Harkin Institute as a research fellow in 2021, working on a Kellogg Foundation grant to create a “good food plan” for the state of Iowa. He took on the role of Interim Wellness and Nutrition Policy in 2022, which includes organizing the annual Harkin On Wellness Symposium. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, and a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at Oxford University. Adam has also taught courses on biomedical ethics, the ethics of food, and ethics of artificial intelligence at Drake University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Iowa State University as well as a Ph.D. from the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Areas of Expertise

• Sustainable agricultural systems,
• Water and soil quality,
• Environmental risk factors to public health
• Environmental impact of industrial farm animal production