Constantine “Kosti” Psimopoulos, who is a postdoctoral research fellow with The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, as well as the Executive Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Harvard Medical School will be addressing the IHPC Assembly at our upcoming meeting on February 25th. All are welcome to attend.

 Constantine aka ‘Kosti’ Psimopoulos is a Kinesiologist by training and a bioethicist. He joined the faculty of Harvard’s Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion, of which he is also Senior Program Administrator, and the Human Flourishing program in 2024. He also holds an academic teaching position (Fellow) in the Department of Systems Biology at HMS, Scientific Citizenship Initiative, funded by the NIH (National Institutes of Health). He has another Academic research appointment in Global Health and Social Medicine and the Center for Bioethics at HMS, and finally a third appointment as a Course Developer (Course Development Fellow) in a new joint HMS/HSPH (Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Initiative on Racism in Health and Scientific Research.

An alumnus of Harvard Medical School, he received graduate training in Bioethics, pursuing an MBE degree at the Center for Bioethics of Harvard Medical School, having been awarded the Inaugural HMS Dean’s Scholarship based on “academic excellence, persistence, resilience, and a commitment to advancing the position of the underserved and the underrepresented in the biomedical sciences”. At Harvard Medical School, Kosti has also served by appointment as Director of Policy and Advocacy (2021-2022) and in 2022-2023 was elected President of Harvard Medical School’s MS Council, and asked to serve on the Harvard Graduate Council Advocacy Committee. Constantine was selected by the Dean of Harvard Medical School (Graduate Education) to give the student (valedictorian) address at the HMS graduation entitled: “In pursuit of A Moral Awakening in Medicine & Healthcare: An ethics of Sympraxis.” An article with an excerpt from his speech, including words inspired by the late and great Paul Farmer, was published under news and research at an HMS article.