SPECIAL EVENT
Re-Opening the Nation: What Values Should Guide Us?
SPECIAL EVENT
New Ethical Questions and 21st Century Genomics
The Hastings Center hosted a special virtual discussion on “New Ethical Questions and 21st Century Genomics” on Thursday, June 4. After the atrocities of Nazi medical experimentation, the Nuremburg Code...Page
Public Trust in Science
HASTINGS CONVERSATIONS: A SERIES Dr. Anthony Fauci explored the ethical issues raised by the erosion of trust in science in a new virtual discussion hosted by The Hastings Center. The...Hastings Center News
Can AI Reduce Inequity and Improve Empathy in Medicine? A Conversation Between Eric Topol and Mildred Solomon
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What Does It Mean to Move Through the World with a Disability?
The answer to that question is not straightforward, as was made vivid in “Navigating: On Disability, Technology, and Experiencing the World,” a recent virtual event. It was the second in...Read “What Does It Mean to Move Through the World with a Disability?”
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Dr. Fauci on Public Trust in Science
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Mildred Solomon explored the ethical issues raised by the erosion of trust in science in a virtual discussion hosted by The Hastings Center on November 19. The nation’s top infectious diseases official and the Hastings president looked at how we can improve public understanding of complex scientific issues in this highly polarized, fraught time.CALLAHAN LECTURE
Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community
The Covid-19 pandemic has made longstanding, seemingly intractable inequities painfully visible. In addition to widespread suffering, African Americans and Latinx communities are dying at three times the rate of White...Read “Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community”
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Advancing Health Equity, and Community
An online event. February 9, 2021 at 12pm EST The Covid-19 pandemic has made longstanding, seemingly intractable inequities painfully visible. In addition to widespread suffering, African Americans and LatinX communities...Page
Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity
If the United States is to achieve herd immunity, at least 75-85% of the population will need to be vaccinated, yet there are many different kinds of barriers to overcome....Read “Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity”
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Vaccine Mandates and Passports: Are They Legal and Ethical?
HASTINGS CONVERSATIONS: A SERIES Although roughly 60% of adults in the United States have had at least one Covid vaccine shot, many Americans remain reluctant, or outright opposed, to getting...Read “Vaccine Mandates and Passports: Are They Legal and Ethical?”
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Hastings Conversations: Our Series
In 2020, The Hastings Center produced two Hastings Conversations series, Reopening the Nation, in response to the Covid-19 epidemic, and Securing Health in a Troubled Time, in response to racial...Page
Should the FDA Have Approved the New Alzheimer’s Drug?
Should Patients Take It? Monday, July 12, 2021 The Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval of a new Alzheimer’s drug has created a firestorm of praise and outrage. Dissenters include...Read “Should the FDA Have Approved the New Alzheimer’s Drug?”
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Critical Moment in Bioethics:
Reckoning with Anti-Blackness through Intergenerational Dialogue This session described an anti-racism initiative co-led by The Hastings Center and a diverse steering committee of justice-focused bioethics scholars. This collaborative initiative reflects...Hastings Center News
Caste Author Isabel Wilkerson to Keynote National Forum, “Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities.”
The Hastings Center and the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Health Justice Announce Two-Day Summit on Health Equity. SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 — The Hastings Center, a global ethics...Page
Event to Examine Disability as a Creative Force
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021: The Hastings Center, a global ethics leader, announce that three artists and writers will lead a special virtual event — “Enjoying: Disability as a Creative Force” —...Page
Webinars
Below is a list of webinars hosted by The Hastings Center for Bioethics: In Science We Trust? Can AI Promote Our Health & Well-Being? Can AI Improve Healthcare for Everyone?...Page
ANA and AMA join AAMC and The Hastings Center as sponsors of “Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities”
NEW YORK/SILVER SPRING/CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 9 – The American Nurses Association and the American Medical Association join The Hastings Center, a global ethics leader, and the Association of American Medical Colleges Center...Page
Caste Author Isabel Wilkerson to Keynote National Forum, “Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities.”
The Hastings Center and the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Health Justice Announce Two-Day Summit on Health Equity. SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 — The Hastings Center, a global ethics...Page
AHA and ABIMF join as sponsors of “Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities”
The American Hospital Association and the ABIM Foundation join with the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association as sponsors of January’s national summit on health equity, convened by...Read “AHA and ABIMF join as sponsors of “Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities””
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Health Equity Summit
The Hastings Center presented a two-day virtual health equity summit on January 19 and 20, in collaboration with the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice, the...Hastings Center News
Health Equity Summit Recap
The Hastings Center and the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Health Justice convened a two-day health equity summit called “Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities” on January 19...Hastings Center News
Ethics and Pandemic Policies: Democracy in Crisis
Ethics guidance during the Covid-19 pandemic has been valuable in informing some health policies and practices, such as oversight of research and crisis standards of care. But it has been...Hastings Center News
A “Breakdown in Humanity”
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson last month told an audience of over 2,600 people at the health equity summit co-convened by The Hastings Center that one of the consistent outcomes...Hastings Center News
The Burglar at Midnight
David Williams, an internationally recognized Harvard scholar, showed how segregation is a driver of differences in income and education and how these racial inequities matter for life and health. He...Hastings Center News
Prioritize Children and Payments to Improve Health Equity
There is no single policy solution to advancing health equity, but we must prioritize children, said Paula Lantz, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, at the...Read “Prioritize Children and Payments to Improve Health Equity”
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Love and Loss with Amy Bloom
Bestselling author Amy Bloom‘s world was altered forever when an MRI indicated that her husband Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Together, led by Brian, Brian and Amy made the decision to travel to Switzerland to access an assisted dying process...Hastings Center News
Improving Access Key to Improving Health Equity
Improving access to health care is critical to improving health equity, stated health care leaders at a panel at the health equity summit sponsored by The Hastings Center earlier this...Hastings Center News
“Hard to Hear” About Racism in Medical Education
“You have to embed structural practices in health professions education to dismantle racism in medicine,“ said Priya Garg, associate dean of medical education at Boston University School of Medicine, at...Page
Anti-Black Racism, Health & Health Care
A Reckoning—and a Path Forward This event took place on June 9, 2022. Transcript Call to Action A new report calls on the field of bioethics to take the lead...Page
Communicating Ethical Challenges in Crises:
Bioethics With Bigger Impact November 15, 2022 Event transcript Perspectives in Biology and Medicine The chaos that enveloped the Covid-19 response and the loss of trust in experts has laid...Page
TRANSCRIPT: Communicating Ethical Challenges in Crises
Novmber 15, 2022 Transcription by machine — may contain errors Elizabeth Lanphier So thank you all for being here today. It’s my pleasure to welcome you to this inaugural session...Read “TRANSCRIPT: Communicating Ethical Challenges in Crises”
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Unpacking Neglected Social Factors to Ensure Impact
Bioethics With Bigger Impact February 7, 2023 2 PM EST Transcript Perspectives in Biology and Medicine It is imperative to understand the social and ethical roots of our present conversations...Page
TRANSCRIPT: Towards Navigating Danger and Promise Together — Editing the Human Genome
Transcript generated by machine and may contain errors Dani Pacia Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Hastings Center event toward navigating danger and Promise together editing the human genome. This discussion...Read “TRANSCRIPT: Towards Navigating Danger and Promise Together — Editing the Human Genome”
