We Belong To One Another: Disability and Family Making
OnlineAbleism frames disability as a “family problem,” in which disability is a tragedy for nondisabled family members and a disqualifying factor when disabled people want to build families of their...
Love and Loss with Amy Bloom
OnlineBestselling 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...
Is It Possible to Have Healthy People on a Sick Planet?
OnlineHow should we work to address climate change and other planetary threats to human health and survival? Our society is built on a global economy that is extractive and destructive,...
Ethical Issues We Have Faced over the Pandemic
OnlineHastings Center president Mildred Z. Solomon will present "Ethical Issues We Have Faced over the Pandemic and Lessons Learned" at the Program for Biomedical Ethics seminar at the Yale School...
ELSIcon2022: Innovating for a Just and Equitable Future
OnlineHastings Center presidential scholar Lucas Matthews will present at the ELSIcon2022 conference: “What can intersectionality bring to ELSI?: Transforming Theory into Practice”
ELSIcon2022: Innovating for a Just and Equitable Future
OnlineHastings Center scholar Carolyn Neuhaus along with Associate Professor of Bioethics at Alden March Bioethics Institute Johanna Crane will present at the ELSIcon2022 conference: "Cultivating just & equitable genomics research...
ELSIcon2022: Innovating for a Just and Equitable Future
OnlineHastings Center scholar Erik Parens along with Paul Appelbaum, Robert Klitzman, and Julia Wynn will appear on a panel at the ELSIcon2022 conference: “The Impact of Receipt of Genetic Test...
Anti-Black Racism, Health & Health Care: A Reckoning—and a Path Forward
A 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 the editors of...
Migration Humanities and Social Justice
OnlineHastings Center Scholar, Nancy Berlinger will present, "Migration Humanities and Social Justice," at Otago Bioethics Center, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Self-determined care or pernicious self-responsibilization? The Case of Telemedicine
Mercer Gary a postdoctoral fellow at The Hastings Center will be giving a presentation on "Self-determined care or pernicious self-responsibilization? The Case of Telemedicineat for the Association for Feminist and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
“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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
