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  • To Improve Health Equity, Look at Politics

    Posted on February 22, 2022

    Daniel Dawes, a key figure in shaping the Affordable Care Act, urged the audience at last month’s health care summit to look upstream and focus on the political and structural...
  • The Burglar at Midnight

    Posted on February 11, 2022

    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...
  • A “Breakdown in Humanity”

    Posted on February 7, 2022

    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...
  • Applications Open for Sadler Scholars

    Posted on February 3, 2022

    The Hastings Center is accepting applications for the 2022-23 Sadler Scholars, a select group of up to six doctoral students with research interests relevant to bioethics who are from racial...
  • Nominate Physicians and Nurses for Outstanding End-of-Life Care

    Posted on January 27, 2022

    Nominations are open for awards that recognize six physicians and two nurses for providing outstanding care to patients nearing the end of life. The awards are given by The Hastings...
  • Ethics and Pandemic Policies: Democracy in Crisis

    Posted on January 26, 2022

    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...
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