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Hastings Center scholar, Karen Maschke, will be presenting, The Hastings Center Special Report, Creating Chimeric Animals: Seeking Clarity on Ethics and Oversight, at NC State University.

Bioethics With Bigger Impact It is imperative to understand the social and ethical roots of our present conversations about health inequalities, in order to partner intelligently with the public, researchers, and policymakers for real impact. Since its inception, the field of bioethics has worked in core concepts of justice and equity, and considerations of social and...

Join us for the inaugural National Health Equity Grand Rounds event, co-sponsored by The Hastings Center, History of Racism in U.S. Health Care: Root Causes of Today’s Hierarchy and Systems of Power, on Tuesday, February 7, 2-3:30 PM ET. In addition to highlighting root causes of present-day health inequities, speakers will explore opportunities to advance equity through individual,...

The Institute for Practical Ethics presents a special guest lecture with Gregory Kaebnick, Research Scholar and Editor of the Hastings Center Center Report, Hastings Center.

Hastings Center senior scholar Erik Parens will be giving a lecture at Smith College on “Binocularity”: A Tool for Comprehending Persons.

Are ethicists asleep at the wheel in protecting planetary health? Global warming is intertwined with persistent problems of social justice, systemic racism, the U.S. history of colonial oppression, and the dominance of capitalist consumer norms over health and health care. Why are these bioethical injustices? Why are these issues still not a central concern for many?...

The National Academies will convene a workshop to explore the in vitro derivation of human gametes (eggs and sperm) from embryonic or induced pluripotent stem cells, and its potential impact on research and reproductive medicine with Joel Michael Reynolds, Hastings senior advisor and fellow.

Research on the genetic contributions to human social and behavioral characteristics, or phenotypes, including risk-taking, income, and educational attainment, is increasing. And it is both potentially beneficial and deeply controversial, given the long history of attempts to use claims about genetic differences to advance unjust social policies and ongoing concern about their misuse.  What are...

Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic demanded remarkable creativity, innovation, and change from clinicians. How can we leverage the insights and lessons learned from working during COVID-19 to transform healthcare work going forward? And how can we create meaningful change in a broken American healthcare system? This webinar featured insights from two studies of healthcare work...

Genomic research has fueled hopes that genetic findings will lead the way to precisionmedicine. But whether patients seek and use genetic information will depend on howthey understand the link between genetics and health. This conference will addressthe psychological processes involved in seeking explanations and how they apply tounderstanding the causal role of genetics. Speakers will...

Hastings Center Research Associate Danielle Pacia will be giving a presentation on "Individualized genetic therapies as a treatment-research hybrids" at the University of Zurich's ITINERARE Ethics Conference, in Zurich, Switzerland. University of Zurich https://www.itinerare.uzh.ch/en/ITINERARE-Ethics-Conference.html

Hastings Center president Vardit Ravitsky, will present with a panel at the 2023 Polygenic Screening Embryo Conference.

At the annual meeting of the National Academy of Medicine, Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will speak with colleagues about Maternal & Child Health and Human Development.Topic: Genetics/AI/Big Data: Impact on Maternal and Child HealthSpeakers: Wendy Chung, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital; Melissa Wong, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, Hastings Center; and Ron Wapner,...

Hastings Center Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will discuss addressing racism and achieving equity in bioethics programs with Yolonda Wilson, Marion Danis, and Sandra Lee at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse in Baltimore, MD

Hastings Center Research Associate Danielle M. Pacia will present Examining Federally Qualified Health Center Patient-Participant Motivations in the All of Us Research Program with Hastings Center Research Scholar Carolyn Neuhaus, and Johanna Crane at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse, in Baltimore, MD

Hastings Center President and CEO Vardit Ravitsky will be the presenter for the Hastings Center 2023 Bioethics Founders' Award Celebration: Reflections on the Work of Norman Daniels and Rebecca Dresser at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse, Baltimore, MD.

Hastings Center Research Scholar Carolyn Neuhaus will join a panel with Danielle M. Pacia, Aashna Lal, and Johanna Crane on Bioethics in Community Health at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse, Baltimore, MD.

The Hastings Center will host a reception for first-time attendees, new members, and students at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse. Grand BR Foyer

Hastings Center Project Manager-Research Assistant Sana Baban will present The Injustice and Moral Wrongs of Affective and Psychotic Disorders as Exclusion Criteria for Organ Transplant Candidates – Flash Session, at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse, Baltimore, MD

Hastings Center Senior Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will present Mapping Cultural Narratives across Disciplines: Aging, Disability, Dementia with Liz Bowen, Laura Haupt, and Erin Gentry Lamb at the ASBH 25th Annual Conference: Engaging the Past to Energize the Future: Creating Space for Inclusive Public Discourse, Baltimore, MD.

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will chair a session on AI in Regenerative Medicine at the Till & McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada

Keynote Featuring Professor Arthur L. Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine "Weighty Matters: The Ethics of Using Injectables To Fight Obesity And Overweight." Keynote (12pm)Workshop (1.15pm – 3.55 pm)Reception Celebrating Vardit Ravitsky (4pm) New York University Grossman School of Medicine, NYC...

Basic research is ongoing into the genomics of complex human behaviors and social outcomes, from eating and sexual behaviors to “subjective sense of well-being” and “educational attainment.”  Although the people doing this research may work hard to articulate their benevolent intentions as well as seeking to conduct rigorous, reproducible, ethical research, they do so against...

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will speak about AI in Health at the Lake Nona symposium.

There’s a growing worldwide trend of distrust in science and medicine—a trend thrown into sharp relief by the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccination campaigns. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Watch our discussion of the pivotal issue of trust in science. How has the past influenced the distrust we’re seeing...

Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger will be presenting "Imagining Socially Just Policy Narratives About Dementia," Ethics Explored, Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger will give a talk entitled "When Persons Facing Dementia Choose to Hasten Death: America's Ethical, Legal, Medical and Social Landscape," at the 4th International Conference on End-of-Life Law, Policy, Ethics & Practice (ICEL4), at S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Hastings Center senior research scholar Josephine Johnston will be discussing Medical Assisted Dying in New Zealand with Professor Roger Chung, Co-Director of CUHK Centre for Bioethics.

Parr Center/Center for Bioethics Joint Lecture: Vardit Ravitsky President & CEO of The Hastings Center Vardit Ravitsky will discuss “The Future of Bioethics.” This talk will explore what the future holds if bioethics continues its evolution to become a field that embraces systemic, collective-level challenges; has a global scale and focus; emphasizes human flourishing; and...

Hastings Center president Vardit Ravitsky will give a Research Ethics Grand Rounds lecture on the Ethical Aspects of AI in Biomedical Research: The Example of the Bridge2AI Initiative at UNC School of Medicine's Center for Bioethics.A Merrimon Lectureship Event321 MacNider Hall or zoom via link below

Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger will be presenting "Supporting Aging Through Housing: Engaging the Imagination of Policymakers and Publics," at the American Society on Aging, San Francisco.

Hastings Center president Vardit Ravitsky will deliver the virtual lecture: “Bioethics: A Path Forward to Face Future Challenges” at Weill Cornell Medicine Medical Ethics Seminar Series

Hastings Center CEO Vardit Ravitsky will participate in The 2024 Bennathan Patient Safety Lecture. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is expanding exponentially and is poised to make substantive and disruptive changes to the healthcare landscape. There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the positive impact that AI is having on healthcare...

Recent advances in genetic screening have made the science fiction allure of choosing our children’s traits ever more possible. Many parents-to-be already screen human embryos derived from in vitro fertilization (IVF) to avoid passing along harmful genetic diseases. However, with the falling cost of genetic sequencing, along with increased understanding of the genetic basis of many characteristics,...

Hastings Center CEO Vardit Ravitsky will give a keynote lecture entitled "Polygenic Embryo Screening: ethical and societal challenges" to the German Academy of Ethics in Medicine (AEM) at its annual spring online conference on current perspectives in medical and health ethics research.

University of Minnesota presents: Ten states and the District of Columbia currently have statutes on the books or a court decision that authorizes medical aid in dying (often called MAID) for adults who are terminally ill. Many additional states, including Minnesota, are debating similar legislation. First legalized in 1997 under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, these state...

The 2024 Voice AI Symposium will be a groundbreaking 2-day event and unique opportunity to connect with stakeholders invested in artificial intelligence and voice biomarkers. This year's symposium will serve as a nexus for dialogue, collaboration, awareness, and engagement across diverse sectors and members of the community about the use voice of artificial intelligence in...