Heather Douglas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science Group at Michigan State University.  She received her Ph.D. from the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 1998, and has held tenure-line faculty positions at the University of Puget Sound, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Waterloo.
She is the author of Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal (2009) as well as numerous articles on values in science, the moral responsibilities of scientists, and the role of science in democratic societies.  She edits the book series Science, Values, and the Public for University of Pittsburgh Press.  Her work has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  
In 2016, she was named a AAAS fellow.  She is also a fellow of the Institute for Science, Society, and Policy at the University of Ottawa.  In 2020, she was the lead organizer for the Public Engagement with Science: Defining and Measuring Success conference.  In 2021, she will be the Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.