Our Scholars Spoke at Public and Academic Events Around the World in 2025

  • “Selecting Embryos: What Is a ‘Serious’ Condition and What Ethical Obligations Does It Entail?” Vardit Ravitsky delivers the Lawrence Lader Lecture on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights at Harvard Medical School. (January 29)
  • Events throughout China (February 16-21):
    • “Current and Emerging Prenatal Testing Technologies.” Vardit Ravitsky at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for Bioethics.
    • “AI and Better Health: Trust and Governance.” David Roscoe, co-chair of the Hastings Center Advisory Council, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Centre for Bioethics.
    • “Ethical Challenges and Future Challenges of Genetic Technologies.” Vardit Ravitsky, PUMC Symposium, Beijing
    • Workshop on Genetics and Disability. Vardit Ravitsky, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou
  • “All of Us Are the Same and Different: On Why We Need to Expect Genetic Differences and Demand Equal Respect,” at talk by Erik Parens at Georgetown University. (February 24)
  • “Binocular Vision: A Tool for Thinking about Persons in Depth,” a talk by Erik Parens at Georgetown University. (February 25)
  • “Integrating Bioethics into the Exploration of Innovation,” a panel organized by Vardit Ravitsky at the Lake Nona Impact Forum. (February 26-28)
  • “An Israeli Perspective on Bioethical Dilemmas,” a talk by Vardit Ravitsky at the Miami Beach Jewish Community Center. (March 17).
  • “The Hastings Center Vision: A Path Forward for Bioethics,” the Callahan Annual Lecture in New York City, with Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky; Joshua Boger, founder and CEO (former) of Vertex Pharmaceuticals; and Gina Kolata, a New York Times health and science reporter. (April 24)
  • “What Do We Know About How to Build Clinician Trust in Organizations?” a panel co-organized and moderated by Carolyn Neuhaus at the Health Workforce Equity Summit, Fitzhugh Mullen Institute for Health Workforce Equity at George Washington University. (April 30)
  • “Inpatient Clinical Decision-Making,” a panel moderated by Nancy Berlinger, Hastings Center/Cedars-Sinai Conference on AI in Health Care, Los Angeles. (May 16)
  • “Cosmopolitan Bioethics,” keynote panel with Vardit Ravitsky at the Global Observatory International Summit. (May 22)  
  • “Probing how helpful the term eugenics is in thinking about embryo selection based on polygenic scores,” talk by Erik Parens at theEuropean Society for Human Genetics, Milan, Italy. (May 25)
  • “It’s really just punishing people for being poor”: Difficulties accessing specialist care for underserved patients,” a talk by Carolyn Neuhaus at the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. (August 5)
  • “Building Trust: AI Governance and Ethics in Medicine and Health,” panel with Vardit Ravitsky at the National Academy of Medicine’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. (October 20) 
  • “AI and Trust,” opening keynote by Vardit Ravitsky at PRIM&R’s annual conference. (November 7)
  •  “Ethical Challenges: The Next AI Frontier in the Research/Clinical Care Divide,” talk by Julie Kolak at a conference on AI in biomedicinehosted by New York Medical College. (November 5)
  • “Bioethics in Community Health: Lessons from Mexico City’s Primary Care Ethics Committees,” a talk by Carolyn Neuhaus at CREEi’s Future of Caribbean Bioethics Conference in Granada. (November 14)