Aaron Kheriaty
Fellow
Aaron Kheriaty is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directs EPPC’s program in Bioethics and American Democracy. He is currently Chief of Psychiatry & Ethics at Doc1 Health and Chief of Medical Ethics at The Unity Project, and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Health and Human Flourishing Program at the Zephyr Institute. Dr. Kheriaty is also a Scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute and he serves on the advisory board at the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy.
Aaron Kheriaty is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he directs EPPC’s program in Bioethics and American Democracy. He is currently Chief of Psychiatry & Ethics at Doc1 Health and Chief of Medical Ethics at The Unity Project, and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Health and Human Flourishing Program at the Zephyr Institute. Dr. Kheriaty is also a Scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute and he serves on the advisory board at the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy.
Dr. Kheriaty graduated from the University of Notre Dame in philosophy and pre-medical sciences, earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California Irvine. For many years he was Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, where he chaired the ethics committee. He also chaired the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals for several years.
Dr. Kheriaty has authored books and articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, social science, psychiatry, religion, and culture. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Arc Digital, The New Atlantis, Public Discourse, City Journal, and First Things. He has conducted print, radio, and television interviews on bioethics topics with The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Fox, and NPR.
On matters of public policy and healthcare he has addressed the California Medical Association and has testified before the California Senate Health Committee. Dr. Kheriaty has consulted on Covid related ethical issues during the pandemic, such as ventilator triage and vaccine allocation, for the UC Office of the President, the County of Orange Healthcare Agency, and the California Department of Public Health.
You can follow him on Twitter @akheriaty.
Biomedical Security State, British Edition
Aaron Kheriaty
The latest revelation of government intelligence agencies spying on and censoring their own citizens for public health wrongthink. In Orwell’s country of origin, Big Brother is Always Watching.
Articles
Human Flourishing / January 30, 2023
The White House Covid Censorship Machine
Aaron Kheriaty
Newly released emails show how officials coerce social-media companies to toe the government line.
Articles
The Wall Street Journal / January 8, 2023
Dr. Fauci’s Amnesia
Aaron Kheriaty
Extraordinary things certainly have happened under his watch when science and politics fused.
Articles
COMPACT Magazine / December 15, 2022
Vaccine Propaganda and Coercion
Aaron Kheriaty
Institutions embraced these misguided policies with little public discussion and no debate.
Articles
Human Flourishing / November 25, 2022
Our Digital Panopticon
Aaron Kheriaty
How digital surveillance is gaining power for the biomedical security state.
Articles
American Greatness / November 3, 2022
The Rise of Biodigital Surveillance
Aaron Kheriaty
Those with economic interests in creating markets for their products—whether vaccines, digital surveillance products, or harvested data—will continue to deploy the carrots and sticks of access to medical care and other services to promote digital IDs.
Articles
COMPACT Magazine / October 27, 2022
Checkmate
Aaron Kheriaty
The CDC finally comes around to acknowledge what I’ve been saying for a year about natural immunity. The University of California’s unjust vaccine mandate no longer has any legal ground to stand on.
Articles
Human Flourishing / August 15, 2022
Contagious Vaccines
Aaron Kheriaty
Government-funded research of lab-engineered viruses to create contagious self-spreading vaccines that bypass the consent of citizens. What could go wrong?
Articles
Human Flourishing / June 21, 2022
EPPC Scholar Files Expert Declaration in Suit by States Challenging Censorship by Biden Administration, Tech…
Aaron Kheriaty
EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Kheriaty has submitted an expert declaration in support of a legal challenge filed by Missouri and Louisiana alleging that President Biden and other leading federal officials colluded with Big Tech companies to censor and suppress free speech.
PDF / June 15, 2022
The WHO’s Pandemic Treaty
Aaron Kheriaty
We must oppose this to maintain national sovereignty and democratic norms.
Articles
Substack / May 31, 2022
