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- Addressing Structural Injustice: A Call to Action for Bioethics
Posted on November 14, 2019
Tremendous wealth beside abject poverty, a widening income gap, the vast disparity between the life prospects of a black child and a white child -- structural injustices are pervasive in our country and many places in the world. What does bioethics have to say about these problems? The Hastings Center has committed to intensifying it efforts to address structural injustices. Ideas for doing so emerged in a plenary session organized by Hastings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. - Five Things Bioethicists See in Our Future
Posted on November 7, 2019
- December 3–Belonging: On Disability, Technology, and Community
Posted on November 6, 2019
- New Project Seeks to Build Diverse Participation in Precision Medicine Research
Posted on October 30, 2019
The Hastings Center is co-leading a new project to examine recruitment and retention of participants the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, an unprecedented initiative to collect genetic and other health-related data from at least one million people living in the United States. This project will focus on a research site that is a health center that serves primarily Latino and African American patients -- groups historically underrepresented in research – to identify strategies to build engagement. - Hastings Center Recognizes Ruth Faden for Lifetime Achievement in Bioethics
Posted on October 24, 2019
Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH, founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Bioethics, was named the recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2019 Henry Knowles Beecher Award for lifetime achievement in bioethics. - Award-Winning Essay: How Can Mobile Apps Improve Clinical Trials and Safeguard Participants?
Posted on October 24, 2019
