Hastings Center co-founder and President Emeritus Daniel Callahan was featured at a media briefing on consumer choice in health care sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  The briefing, which took place at the National Press Club in Washington on June 25, featured other prominent experts on health policy: Joe Antos of the American Enterprise Institute, Tony Coelho of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care, and Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton University. Ed Howard of the Alliance was moderator. Click here for the webcast, podcast and resource materials from the briefing.

On June 24, Hastings Center scholars Greg Kaebnick and Erik Parens gave presentations on synthetic biology at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. Parens presented his report, Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology: An Overview of the Debates, which was commissioned by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Josephine Johnston and Jacob Moses, both of The Hastings Center, were co-authors.

Kaebnick, editor of the Hastings Center Report, described the Center’s new, multi-year project that examines the ethical issues raised by the Parens, Johnston, and Moses report in greater depth. That project is also funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

View slides of the presentations; a webcast of the discussion will be available shortly.