The Hastings Center for Bioethics

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...

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...

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....

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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