Happy New Year! and welcome to the Bios Centre Newsletter. For our first event in 2025 we are holding an online panel discussion on assisted dying legislation in Australia and the UK. This will take place on Wednesday 29 January at 9.30 a.m. GMT (note time). The Hon. Robert Clark, the former … Read More
Join us for an interactive, online fireside chat with Dr. Fauci as he examines our nation’s past, present, and future responses to pandemics and other public health crises. Dr. Fauci directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) … Read More
Join us for an interactive, online fireside chat with Dr. Fauci as he examines our nation’s past, present, and future responses to pandemics and other public health crises. Dr. Fauci directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) … Read More
Defining Benefit in Genomics Research: How are investigators and communities maximizing opportunities for benefit sharing and what are the challenges? This is session one of the two-part Pioneering Sustainable and Beneficial Global Genomics Research Capacity series. Speakers: María C. Ávila … Read More
This talk will explore the diverse stories we tell about the field of health humanities -- how it came to be, who it serves, and what it does -- in order to envision possible forward-looking stories for the field. Erin … Read More
Speaker: David Resnik, JD, PhD - Bioethicist, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Dr. Resnik is a Bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to joining the NIEHS in 2004, Dr. … Read More
The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Dr. Carl Elliot, MD, PhD Dr. Carl Elliot Carl Elliott is a … Read More
Our health is largely determined by our social environments and that includes our physical environments. Our health is directly impacted by the location of oil and gas facilities, the amount of plastics and carcinogens in our drinking water and the … Read More
Please join us for a fascinating in person and online presentation and discussion of the following case: Patients have a legal right to discontinue life-sustaining treatment, but what if they are suicidal? We will consider the case of a man … Read More
Please join us for a fascinating in person and online presentation and discussion of the following case: Patients have a legal right to discontinue life-sustaining treatment, but what if they are suicidal? We will consider the case of a man … Read More
Conflict in healthcare endangers patients, distresses families, disrupts the workplace, fuels burnout and sparks ethical conundrums. Resolving conflicts peacefully and durably helps preserve relationships and avoid dis-integration. "Conflict Resolution and Clinical-Setting Mediation for Healthcare" is a learn-by-doing training enabling clinical-setting … Read More
In this session, guest speaker Yvette Vieira, MMH, HEC-C, joins Division of Ethics Chief Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, to discuss the ethical implications of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). Lunch will be provided after in the VEC lobby. Abstract: Medical aid in dying (MAiD) is … Read More
