Matthew McCoy, PhD, MBE
Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Faculty Director, MBE, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Contact information
Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
3600 Civic Center Blvd, 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3600 Civic Center Blvd, 8th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
mmcco@mail.med.upenn.edu
mmcco@mail.med.upenn.edu
Education:
B.A. (English and Politics)
University of San Francisco, 2003.
M.Sc. (Political Theory)
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008.
Ph.D. (Political Theory)
Princeton University, 2015.
M.B.E. (Bioethics)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Permanent linkB.A. (English and Politics)
University of San Francisco, 2003.
M.Sc. (Political Theory)
London School of Economics and Political Science, 2008.
Ph.D. (Political Theory)
Princeton University, 2015.
M.B.E. (Bioethics)
University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
Selected Publications
Moore B, McCoy MS, Taylor L, Nelson RH, Stahl R, Ubel PA, Blumenthal-Barby J : What Can We Ask of Hospitals? Conceptual Foundations for an Ethics of Healthcare Organizations. American Journal of Bioethics Page: 1-15, Feb 2026 Notes: Online ahead of print.Shen MM, Clapp JT, Lynch HF, McCoy MS: Mapping the Landscape of Medical Venture Philanthropy. AJOB Empirical Bioethics 16(4): 286–296, October 2025.
McCoy MS: Patient Organizations, Venture Philanthropy, and the Ethics of Pursuing Cures Over Care Journal of Medical Ethics Page: 110875, Sept 2025.
Greenberg KS, Hopen J, Draw M, McCoy MS, Kanter GP, Lynch HF: Difficulty With Binary Voting Among FDA Oncology Advisory Committee Members. JAMA Network Open 8(7): e2522759, July 2025.
McCoy MS, Gaines ME, Joffe S, Kanter GP, Largent EA, Lo B, Lynch HF, Whelan AM, Mello MM: A Framework for Assessing the Permissibility of Academic Leaders’ Outside Activities. Milbank Quarterly 103(3): 755-778, June 2025.
Lynch HF, Largent EA, McCoy MS, Joffe S: Advancing Trust in Science: Institutional Obligations to Promote Research Integrity. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 53(1): 1-5, June 2025.
Zeng E, Wu X, Ertmann EN, Huang L, Johnson DF, Mehendale AT, Tang BT, Zhukoff K, Adjei-Poku M, Bauer L, Friedman AB, McCoy MS: Measuring Risks to Users’ Health Privacy Posed by Third-Party Web Tracking and Targeted Advertising. Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 384: 1-26, April 2025.
Greenberg KS, Lynch HF, Nwakama C, Frumovitz J, Setru S, Johnson AM, Shah SM, Schadt L, McCoy MS, Hoffman AK, Largent EA: A Review of Public Comments Submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Response to the 2022 National Coverage Decision on Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Law and the Biosciences 12(1): lsaf004, April 2025.
Smith JN, Barnhill A, Savulescu J, Liao SM, McCoy MS, Blumenthal-Barby J: "Why Do You Ask?" Revisiting the Purpose of Eliciting the Public’s Moral Judgments About Emerging Technologies. AJOB Empirical Bioethics 16(3): 127-39, Mar 2025.
McCoy MS, Dellgren JL, Emanuel EJ: What Justifies Public Engagement in Health Financing Decisions? Bulletin of the World Health Organization 103(1): 32-36, January 2025.