Researchers must carefully balance possible risks against expected benefits to ensure ethical study design. Much has been discussed about how to determine risks of research participate and whether there are limits to how risky research can be. Less explored is … Read More
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Columbia University’s Master of Science in Bioethics program grounds students in interdisciplinary approaches and models to address the most pressing bioethical challenges. The Bioethics program prepares students to act as responsible and responsive leaders in this new and ever-growing field. … Read More
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Columbia University’s Master of Science in Bioethics program grounds students in interdisciplinary approaches and models to address the most pressing bioethical challenges. The Bioethics program prepares students to act as responsible and responsive leaders in this new and ever-growing field. … Read More |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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For this CARE panel, we explore who owns social media data, who should have access to it for research purposes, and who should get to decide. This event is part of "Love Data Week," an international celebration of research data. … Read More
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The Master of Bioethics Program at the University of Pennsylvania invites you to join us for our next MBE/MSME Alumni Colloquium speaker Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, PhD, MBE BIO: Kayte Spector-Bagdady is health law and bioethics faculty at the University of … Read More |
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This live virtual event will feature a compelling discussion led by Jordan Potter, PhD, HEC-C, Director of Ethics at Community Health Network in the Indianapolis, IN metropolitan area. Learning Objectives: 1. Identify common cultural- or religious-based values that conflict with the conception of … Read More
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Along with social determinants, the hospital as an institution must also be examined for its role in poor Black infant and maternal health outcomes worldwide. With the US and the African diaspora as her dual focus, Collins argues hospitals must … Read More
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Along with social determinants, the hospital as an institution must also be examined for its role in poor Black infant and maternal health outcomes worldwide. With the US and the African diaspora as her dual focus, Collins argues hospitals must … Read More |
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This ELSI Friday Forum is co-hosted with The Broad Institute. Community engagement is increasingly seen as a necessary component of genetic and genomic research. One major rationale for community engaged genetic research is to assure that benefits of research are … Read More |
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In an era of rapid transformation in healthcare we must ask who will be caring for us 10 years from now? What will the future of primary care look like? Will it be high quality? Will it be accessible to … Read More |
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Join us for this session in which distinguished Bioethics faculty will provide you with insight into the Bioethics program and answer any questions you may have about the courses they lead at Columbia University. |
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With Daniel Kim, PhD, MPH & Christen Paradissis, PhD Dr. Kim received a PhD in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago and an MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Yale University. He was a 2021-22 fellow of the … Read More
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Our esteemed panelists will draw on their experiences as scholars who obtained post-graduate training in the health humanities before transitioning into industry, nonprofit, and/or administrative work to provide advice and insight for job seekers. We will reserve plenty of time … Read More
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The modern world faces religious, spiritual and existential quandaries, as new technologies redefine the beginnings and ends of life. Join Dr. Robert Klitzman and Rabbi David Ingber as they share stories about the spiritual lives of patients and explores the … Read More |
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The Greenwall Foundation’s 75th anniversary in 2024 gave us the opportunity to share stories of the people and events that have shaped the Foundation’s course and inspire our future. The celebration continues into early 2025 with our capstone 75th anniversary … Read More |
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The determination of a person’s death is an important process involving both medical and societal considerations. Controversy and confusion regarding the determination of death by neurologic criteria persist at the bedside, in the community, and within broader policy discussions. This … Read More
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Please join us for this online event on February 25,2025 Speaker: David T. Ozar, Ph.D. David T. Ozar, an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, has made significant contribution to dental ethics through his teaching, founding of the … Read More |
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Objective Care for the dying and their loved ones is a most rewarding but also challenging endeavor. Such care can evoke complex moral questions that often defy standard methods of ethical analysis. In this seminar, we enter into dialogue with … Read More |
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This symposium will address concerns posed by the American Academy of Neurology’s issuance of updated 2023 Guidelines after an unsuccessful effort to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA). Participants will a unique opportunity to learn about, discuss, and … Read More
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On Thursday, February 27, Dr. Robert Klitzman, Director of the M.S. in Bioethics program at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, will join Emmy Award-winning writer Randy Cohen on Cohen’s public radio podcast Person Place Thing. Person Place Thing is an … Read More |
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Hospital policies have a fundamental role in the care of patients, yet significant variability exists across hospitals in core patient-facing policies. In this Clinical Ethics Conversation, we will learn from clinical ethics leaders about variations in policy across their institutions … Read More |