Aaron Kheriaty

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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COMPACT Magazine / December 15, 2022

Vaccine Propaganda and Coercion

Aaron Kheriaty

Institutions embraced these misguided policies with little public discussion and no debate.

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Human Flourishing / November 25, 2022

Our Digital Panopticon

Aaron Kheriaty

How digital surveillance is gaining power for the biomedical security state.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Substack / May 31, 2022

The Public Health Prophet We Did Not Heed

Aaron Kheriaty

Although lockdowns and other biosecurity proposals were circulating by 2005, mainstream public health did not embrace the biosecurity model until covid.

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Substack / May 10, 2022

CDC and the Surveillance State

Aaron Kheriaty

The CDC has been using phone tracking data to monitor schools and churches. The CIA has also been spying on Americans, with no judicial oversight and without congressional approval.

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Substack / May 4, 2022