Rebecca Walker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill, is a philosopher specializing in ethics with post-doctoral training in bioethics and health policy. Her teaching and research interests include distributive justice and health care, issues of moral status, and ethics methodology. Before coming to UNC, Dr. Walker was Project Direct of the Life Sciences, Values and Society Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she helped to implement programs dealing with the ethical implications of the human genome project. These programs focused on outreach and education of members of the state legislature, members of the general Ann Arbor community, and members of the university community. As a part of the UNC CEER planning grant, she and Nancy King, along with research assistant Joseph Harrington, focused on mapping the conceptual elements of ELSI as related to large-scale genetic discovery and disclosure, in particular with respect to DNA repositories. Dr. Walker was also involved as key personnel in the planning of the 2006 Community Genetics Forum (a yearly event sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute) dealing with group-based interests in genetic research and testing. She has also incorporated ELSI issues into her teaching for second year medical students in a course on distributive justice in health care and for an undergraduate course in bioethics. Dr. Walker’s current interest in ELSI research focuses on methodological questions about the relationship between ethics as a philosophical discipline and the ethical implications of the human genome project. Her previous related work on methodological questions in ethics include her dissertation on Moral Variety and Plural Theories (Stanford University 1998), and a co-edited volume Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (Oxford University Press, 2006).