Prior to joining the University of Oxford in 2016 Kelley was a
faculty member at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics,
Seattle Children's Hospital,
Seattle,
Washington, and the Department of Pediatrics at the
University of Washington School of Medicine. Kelley moved to the University of Oxford in 2016 as a senior member of the Ethox Centre, a research group working on health research ethics. Kelley is a
safeguarding expert for the UK Collaborative on Development Research. She is also a member of the advisory board for the
European Union Border Care project, a comparative study of the politics of maternity care among undocumented migrants on the EU’s peripheries, funded by the
European Research Council. Kelley was a member of the
World Health Organization's
COVID-19 research ethics review committee in 2020, reviewing COVID-19 research projects involving human participants supported either financially or technically by WHO. Kelley was appointed as the Madeline Brill Nelson Chair in Ethics Education at Oregon Health & Science University in early 2022, she became the Senior Associate Director within OHSU's Center for Ethics in Health Care. In late 2023 she was appointed the Wallace and Mona Wu Chair in Bioethics at
Wake Forest University's Centre for Bioethics, Health & Society. == See also ==