Chimeras (But Don’t Call Them Chimeras): An Introduction to the Ethics & Policy Debate
OnlineJosephine Johnston, Director of Research at The Hastings Center, and Dr. Insoo Hyun, Director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science in Boston will present, “Chimeras (But Don't Call Them Chimeras): An Introduction to the Ethics and Policy Debate” at the September 15 PRIM&R webinar.
Aging in a Place: Perspectives on the Meanings of “Home” and “Community” from Age-focused Researchers & Practitioners
OnlineEveryone ages in some "place," or a series of places. This event will explore the concept of place from the perspectives of housing research, affordable housing development and modification, and dementia-friendly community planning. Our aim is to connect humanistic concepts with socially engaged research and practice on planning and housing for aging societies, to support...
Understanding Cultural Narratives of Dementia: Tasks and Tools for Humanities Scholars
OnlineHastings Center Research Scholar Nancy Berlinger will present "Understanding Cultural Narratives of Dementia: Tasks and Tools for Humanities Scholars" at the European Network of Aging Studies (ENAS) and North American Network of Aging Studies (NANAS) Joint Conference.
Ethical & Regulatory Considerations in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials: Patient Selection, Equity in Access, & Wait Listing
OnlineThe webinar aims to provide participants with the ethical, regulatory, and psychosocial context to address the following questions: - What strategies should be used to minimize clinical trial investigators’ conflict of interest in recruiting patients into xenotransplant clinical trials? - How should potential participants be notified about the option of participating in a xenotransplant clinic...
The Suppliants Project: Ukraine, Notre Dame Forum
Theater of WarDramatic readings of Aeschylus’ Suppliants as catalyst for powerful, global dialogue about the impact of war. Translated and Directed by Bryan Doerries.
What Do Physicians Want from Leadership?
Champions of Wellness Virtual Summit 2022Nancy Berlinger, Ph.D., a Research Scholar at The Hastings Center, will be speaking at the Champions of Wellness Virtual Summit 2022 on "What Do Physicians Want from Leadership?: Insights from a Qualitative Four-City Study of Systems Factors in Occupational Health and Wellbeing During COVID-19."
How I Became Disabled
https://www.genome.gov/event-calendar/irreducible-subjects-disability-and-genomics-in-the-past-present-and-futureRosemarie Garland-Thomson, Hastings Center senior advisor and fellow, will be speaking on “How I Became Disabled” at The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and The State University of New York at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies two-day symposium entitled, “Irreducible Subjects: Disability and Genomics in the Past, Present and Future."
Housing & Health Equity for Older Adults: Findings from the COVID-19 RECAPP Report
In addition to its devastating effects on health and mortality, the COVID-19 pandemic produced a complex and interconnected set of social challenges across the US. Older adults living in the community faced social isolation and disruptions in access to food, medical care, and other goods and services during stay-at-home orders. In response, organizations that support...
AI & Health Bioethics Summit
OnlineThe first Google Health Bioethics Summit 2022 will be hosted in collaboration with The Hastings Center. This forum will bring together experts from across academia and industry to explore the most pressing ethical issues in artificial intelligence and health care, share knowledge, and build the foundation for the development of standards, policies, and best practices....
Advancing Housing & Health Equity for Older Adults: Learning from Aging in Place Initiatives
OnlineIn the Covid moment, community-based initiatives throughout the United States pivoted to meet the needs of older adults at home. This virtual event explores the findings of a new report, a collaboration between The Hastings Center and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard, focusing on perspectives and lessons from diverse initiatives and networks...
Performing Pain and the Epistemic Harms
OnlineHastings Center Sadler Scholar Jada Wiggleton-Little will present on "Performing Pain and the Epistemic Harms" for the Bias and Injustice Session at the ASBH 24th Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Relational Public Health Ethics & Federally Qualified Health Centers’ Role in Vaccine Distribution
OnlineHastings Center Research Associate Danielle Pacia will present a paper on “Relational Public Health Ethics and Federally Qualified Health Centers Role in Vaccine Distribution” at the ASBH 24th Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Bioethics Founders’ Award & David Roscoe Essay Award
Bioethics Founders’ Award Recipients: Anita L. Allen, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law Farhat Moazam, Professor and founding chairperson of the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Pakistan. David Roscoe Essay Award...
A Critical Moment in Bioethics
Oregon Convention Center 777 NW Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Portland, OR, United StatesA new report calls on the field of bioethics to take the lead in efforts to remedy racial injustice and health inequities in the United States. Join Hastings Center senior advisor Faith Fletcher, Sadler Scholars advisor Keisha Ray, and other editors of the report, “A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism Through Intergenerational...
Self-managed Medication Abortion: Changing the Landscape of Abortion Access Outside of the Law
OnlineHastings Center Senior PMRA Margaret Matthews will present a paper on "Self-managed Medication Abortion: Changing the Landscape of Abortion Access Outside of the Law", during the ASBH Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon session: Reframing Our Concepts: "Self-Managed Abortion," "Good Death," "Management Conditions".
Disability Rights and Disability Justice after Dobbs: Advocacy, Allyship, and Access
OnlineHastings Center and Rice Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics and the Humanities, Liz Bowen will be on a panel discussing, "Disability Rights and Disability Justice after Dobbs: Advocacy, Allyship, and Access" at the ASBH 24th Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon.
“What is Bioethics and Why Does It Matter?”
OnlineHastings Center President Mildred Solomon to teach Master Class at West Point: “What is Bioethics and Why Does It Matter?”
Communicating Ethical Challenges in Crises: Bioethics With Bigger Impact
OnlineThe chaos that enveloped the Covid-19 response and the loss of trust in experts has laid bare the need for a shift in communicating the moral questions that confront our society. Helping the public think through daunting public health issues and understand the reasons for life and death policies is critical – we must communicate...
Patient Harms and Professional Obligations after Dobbs
OnlineThe Dobbs decision is imposing confusion and risking the health and safety of pregnant patients in states where abortion has been banned. Physicians are asking what to do. Is the ethical choice refusing to comply? Or is civil disobedience the wrong answer? Learn about the kinds of patient cases most at risk and explore what...
Helping Older Americans During the Pandemic
OnlineThis event, the third in a four-part series, will explore some of the key findings in Advancing Housing and Health Equity for Older Adults: Pandemic Innovations and Policy Ideas, a collaboration with The Hastings Center. Panelists will share new research and examples of how service coordinators leveraged community resources and their own creativity to ensure...
Toward New Narratives About Aging in Place
OnlineMost older Americans want to “age in place,” yet many lack the “place” they need. Land use restrictions or local resistance to affordable, accessible homes stymie efforts to build places that work for people as they age or who have disabilities. Private-market options geared to wealthy adults are not the solution for the typical, moderate-income...
Genetic Advantages in Sports: When Do They Count as ‘Doping’?
ELSIhubWhat is the essence of sports, and how does that impact the way doping is defined? Join the Friday ELSI discussion with panelists Sarah Polcz, JSD, MSc, JD (Stanford Law School) and Silvia Camporesi, PhD, PhD (King's College London, University of Vienna), moderated by Thomas H. Murray, PhD (The Hastings Center).
Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics
OnlineSocial and behavioral genomics research uses huge sets of genetic data in attempts to shed light on phenotypes from smoking and eating behaviors, to psychiatric disorders, to sexuality and educational attainment. How should we think about the risks of such research, including the risks that its results can be weaponized or lead to policy fatalism?...
The Promise and Perils of Social and Behavioral Genomics
OnlineWhile many promise that the study of genomic variants can help us better understand ourselves and our world, others are concerned that recent scientific developments have helped fuel the rise of harmful ideologies, such as white supremacy and antisemitism. The scientific community must consider whether the misappropriation of genetic evidence has played any role in...
Creating Chimeric Animals: Seeking Clarity on Ethics and Oversight
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.
Unpacking Neglected Social Factors to Ensure Impact
OnlineBioethics 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...
National Health Equity Grand Rounds
OnlineJoin 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,...
Should We Change “Chimeric” Human-Animal Research?
SPECIAL REPORT: Creating Chimeric Animals: Seeking Clarity on Ethics and Oversight Crossing species boundaries by inserting human cells into (nonhuman) animals for research purposes promises to yield enormous benefits, including better models of human disease and ultimately sources of tissues and organs suitable for transplantation into humans. Yet there are ethical questions about this type...
Indigenizing Genomics and Advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty
OnlineIndigenous peoples have embodied genetic understanding within Indigenous knowledge systems long before encountering settler-science constructs.Join the discussion with panelists Phillip Wilcox, BForSci (Hons), PhD, and Krystal Tsosie, PhD, MPH, MA; moderated by Josephine Johnston, LLB, MBHL
Synthetic Biology and the Reinvention of Nature
OnlineThe Institute for Practical Ethics presents a special guest lecture with Gregory Kaebnick, Research Scholar and Editor of the Hastings Center Center Report, Hastings Center.
Toward Navigating Danger and Promise Together–Editing the Human Genome
A frank look at the ethics of breakthrough genetic technologies TRANSCRIPT A just-concluded summit looked at the state of human genome editing, where the scandal of China's CRISPR babies was fresh in the minds of many. But attendees also heard of the exciting promise that gene editing therapy holds for sickle cell disease, a condition...
The Battle for Your Brain
At the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence lies a wealth of opportunity for business, labor, and society at large. Yet along with progress comes a host of legal and ethical dilemmas. Watch Nita Farahany and Mildred Solomon consider what our neurological information is worth, and the implications of making it available to corporations, work places...
“Binocularity”: A Conceptual Tool for Comprehending and Respecting Persons
OnlineHastings Center senior scholar Erik Parens will be giving a lecture at Smith College on “Binocularity”: A Tool for Comprehending Persons.
Confronting Climate Change in a Perfect Moral Storm
OnlineAre 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?...
In Vitro Derived Human Gametes as a Reproductive Technology: Scientific, Ethical, and Regulatory Implications
OnlineThe 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.
EVENT: Wrestling with Social & Behavioral Genomics
OnlineResearch 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...
Follow the Money! Understanding the Structural Incentives for Inequity in Health Care and Beyond
The American Medical AssociationThe Hastings Center is a co-sponsor along with The American Medical Association, National Health Equity /Grand Rounds series, "Follow the Money! Understanding the Structural Incentives for Inequity in Health Care and Beyond".
Reimagining Healthcare Work, Repairing Healthcare Systems: Lessons from the Front Line
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...
Exploring Origins and Impacts of Beliefs about Genetic Causation
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...
“Individualized Genetic Therapies as a Treatment-Research Hybrids”
OnlineHastings 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
Should AI Care For Us?
Ethics, AI, and Society Increased attention to the widespread applications of artificial intelligence—and large language models such as ChatGPT in particular—has raised questions about the integration of AI into caregiving relationships. AI will allow at least the appearance of more effective caregiving for aging adults and children by tailoring conversations to an individual’s history and...
Ethical Perspectives
Hastings Center president Vardit Ravitsky, will present with a panel at the 2023 Polygenic Screening Embryo Conference.
Can AI Improve Health Care for Everyone?
VirtualFast-moving developments in artificial intelligence have far-reaching implications for caregivers, patients, and the entire healthcare system. Will the introduction of AI systems improve diagnosis, treatment, and research, bringing better and fairer healthcare to all? Or not? Panelists:Dr. Nicol Turner Lee of The Brookings Institute Dr. Danielle Whicher of Mathematica Moderator:Josephine Johnston of The Hastings Center...
The Future of Bioethics: Challenges, Visions and Opportunities
Columbia UniversityJoin a discussion on The Future of Bioethics: Challenges, Visions and Opportunities with the new President of The Hastings Center, Vardit Ravitsky. Speaker: Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D, President and CEO of The Hastings Center Moderator: Robert Klitzman, M.D., Program Director, M.S. in Bioethics; Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Speaker Bio Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, is...
Valuing Older Adults by Creating Housing Options: Real-World Insights from Collaborative Research
Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger will present on a panel at the Oregon Gerontological Association 2023 Annual Virtual Conference, Home Sweet Home: Meanings and Options Across the Life Course.
Genetics/AI/Big Data: Impact on Maternal and Child Health/NAM annual meeting
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,...
Addressing Racism and Achieving Equity in Bioethics Programs: Reality and Recommendations
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings 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
What Ought to be the Future of Just and Equitable Policies for Healthy Aging?
NYU Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Grossman School of MediciHastings Center President Emerita Mildred Z. Solomon will join a panel discussion on the future of just and equitable policies for healthy aging with Professor Michael L. Freedman of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Mehmood Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Hevolution. Arthur Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Grossman will moderate the session...
Examining Federally Qualified Health Center Patient-Participant Motivations in the All of Us Research Program
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings 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 2023 Bioethics Founders’ Award Celebration: Reflections on the Work of Norman Daniels and Rebecca Dresser
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings 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.
Bioethics in Community Health
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings 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.
Hastings Center Reception
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesThe 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
The Injustice and Moral Wrongs of Affective and Psychotic Disorders as Exclusion Criteria for Organ Transplant Candidates – Flash Session
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings 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
Mapping Cultural Narratives across Disciplines: Aging, Disability, Dementia
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 700 Aliceanna St,, Baltimore, MD, United StatesHastings 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.
Can AI Promote Our Health & Well-Being?
Medicine has been at the forefront of recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), from image recognition to generative AI. Watch leaders in AI, ethics, and health as they discuss the hype, the hope, and what it might take for AI to improve patient outcomes. This event explored challenges to the effective use of AI in...
Plenary 3: Integrating AI and ML into Research and Clinical Care: Scientific and Ethical Challenges
Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will chair a session on AI in Regenerative Medicine at the Till & McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada
Rebuilding Trust in Science
Since before the pandemic we have been experiencing a breakdown in trust in science and health care. Explore the reasons for this crisis, with authors of a just-released Hastings Center special report on trust, who show a path forward to heal our fractured society. Transcript Trust Event With panelists Arthur Caplan, PhD, NYU Grossman School of...
What Is a ‘Serious Genetic Condition’?
Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D., President and CEO of the Hastings Center, will deliver the keynote address, "What Is a 'Serious Genetic Condition'?," at the eighth annual reproductive ethics conference at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. The controversies and challenges of reproductive ethics arise from new technologies, political...
Constructing an Ethics Framework for AI in Biomedical Research
Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will discuss "Constructing an Ethics Framework for AI in Biomedical Research,” or ethics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and health care, at the 2024 Rothenberg Speaker Series. The virtual event is sponsored by The Law & Health Care Program at the University of Maryland.
