Christine Grady is a nurse-bioethicist born and raised in Livingston, New Jersey, daughter of John H. Grady Jr., a Yale graduate, U.S. Navy veteran, and former mayor of Livingston, and Barbara, an assistant dean at Seton Hall University School of Law. She graduated from Livingston High School and holds a B.S. in nursing and biology from Georgetown University (1974), an M.S.N. in community health nursing from Boston College (1978), and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University (1993). Grady began her career at the NIH as a clinical nurse specialist in allergy, immunology, and infectious diseases, specializing in HIV/AIDS, before transitioning to bioethics and serving as Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the NIH Clinical Center. She contributed to the department's growth, served as a commissioner on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (2010-2017), and her research focuses on clinical research ethics, informed consent, vulnerability in study design and recruitment, international research ethics, and ethical challenges for nurses and healthcare providers. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, senior research fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and fellow of the Hastings Center and American Academy of Nursing. Grady received the National Institutes of Health CEO Award (2017) and NIH Director's Award (2015, 2017). She is the wife of Anthony Fauci and has three children. In April 2025, she was reassigned from her NIH role amid broader Department of Health and Human Services changes, and starting March 1, 2025, she joined Georgetown University as senior advisor to the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences on bioethics and neuroethics, and professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine (with secondary appointment in the College of Arts & Sciences, research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and faculty at the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics).