Webinars
Below is a list of webinars hosted by The Hastings Center:
Can AI Promote Our Health & Well-Being?
Can AI Improve Healthcare for Everyone?
Reimagining Healthcare Work, Repairing Healthcare Systems: Lessons from the Front Line
Wrestling with Social & Behavioral Genomics
The Battle for Your Brain–Callahan Lecture
Toward Navigating Danger and Promise Together–Editing the Human Genome
Should We Change “Chimeric” Human-Animal Research?
Advancing Housing and Health Equity for Older Adults (cosponsor for the four-part series: The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)
Analyzing the Dobbs Decision: What Exactly Did Justice Alito Say?
Hastings Conversation: Patient Harms and Professional Obligations after Dobbs
Communicating Ethical Challenges in Crises: Bioethics with Bigger Impact (companion to a special issue in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine)
Learning from Aging in Place Initiatives (with Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard)
Anti-Black Racism, Health & Health Care: A Reckoning—and a Path Forward
Callahan Lecture: Is It Possible to Have Healthy People on a Sick Planet (with Gary Cohen)
HEALTH EQUITY
Health Equity Summit, “Righting the Wrongs, Tackling Health Inequities”
Health Equity Summit agenda
- Introduction
- David Williams interviewed by Michele Goodwin
- Daniel Dawes interviewed by Philip Alberti
- Panel discussion “The Evidence Base for Health Equity: What We Know Works,” hosted by Philip Alberti
- Another panel discussion “The Evidence Base for Health Equity: What We Know Works,” hosted by Emily Cleveland Manchanda
- Panel discussion “Finding and Fixing Structural Barriers to Equitable Healthcare in Clinic,” hosted by Susan Dorr Goold
- Panel discussion “From the Walls to the Halls: Changing Health Professions Education to Advance Health Equity,” hosted by Rumay Alexander
DISABILITY
The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability, led by Hastings Center research scholar Erik Parens, with Liz Bowen, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Joel Michael Reynolds
- Belonging: On Disability, Technology, and Community with Haben Girma, Rachel Kolb, and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
- Navigating: On Disability, Technology, and Experiencing the World with Yomi Wrong, Rod Michalko, and Kim Q. Hall
- Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism with Lateef McLeod and D.J. Savarese
- Questioning Cure: Disability, Identity, and Healing with Anand Persad, Ann Millet-Gallant, and Karen Nakamura
- Enjoying: Disability as a Creative Force with Jerron Herman, Georgina Kleege, and Judith Watts Belser
- We Belong To One Another: Disability and Family Making, featuring Jina Kim, Sami Schalk, and Jess Waggoner on queercrip doulaing, Mia Mingus on access intimacy, and Leah Smith and Joseph Stramondo on parenting disability gain.
JOURNALISM
Bioethics for Journalists, led by Hastings Center director of communications Susan Gilbert
- Genomics, Human Behavior, and Social Outcomes with Amy Harmon, Erik Parens, Melinda Mills, and Arbel Harpek
- Law Enforcement and Genetic Data with Sarah Zheng, Ellen Wright Clayton, and Cece Moore
- Precision Medicine Research, “All of Us”, and Inclusion with Nidhi Subbaraman, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Carolyn Neuhaus, and Katherine Blizinsky
- Addressing Racism in Medical Research and Publishing with Vabren Watts, Mildred Cho, and Fernando De Maio
HEALTH CARE & SCIENCE
Hastings Conversations: A Series, hosted by Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon
Securing Health in a Troubled Time
- Breakthrough or Breakdown: Should the FDA Have Approved the New Alzheimer’s Drug? Should Patients Take It? with Aaron S. Kesselheim and Jason Karlawish
- Vaccine Mandates and Passports: Are They Legal and Ethical? with Lawrence O. Gostin, Walter Olson, Amy L. Fairchild, and Francesca Rossi
- Vaccine Access, Vaccine Hesitancy: Challenges to Herd Immunity with Rhea Boyd and Maya Goldenberg
- Public Trust in Science with Anthony Fauci
- New Ethical Questions and 21st Century Genomics with Alondra Nelson
- Health Equity, Racism, and This Moment in Time with Richard Besser and Herminia Palacio
Reopening the Nation
- What Values Should Guide Us? with Ezekiel Emanuel and Danielle Allen
- Privacy, Surveillance, and Digital Tools for Contact Tracing with Ed Felten and Ryan Calo
- Should We Turn to Immunity Testing? with Françoise Baylis, Dakota Gruener, and Gigi Gronvall