She conducts both empirical and normative research into issues at the intersection of ethics, law, and health policy. Her work examines political and ethical issues concerning the scope of government authority in public health and the role of stakeholder opinion in shaping decision-making in public health policy. Dr. Morain received a Ph.D. in Health Policy with a concentration in Ethics from Harvard University and an M.P.H. from the Program in the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University. She completed her postdoctoral training as a Hecht-Levi Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Berman Institute for Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.