Professor Laetitia Rispel, former head of the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, will present on lessons learned from South Africa’s health sector reforms that can be applied within the global public health community.
Department of Pediatrics presents 2016-2017 Visiting Pediatric Ethics Scholar Benjamin S. Wilfond, MD Director, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric BioethicsPulmonologist, Seattle Children’s Hospital Professor and Chief, Division of Bioethics, Department of Pediatrics Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities University of Washington School of Medicine
Digital technologies are changing how people are recruited to research and raising new ethical, practical, and social considerations. Informed consent practices are also affected, and demanding fresh scrutiny. This presentation considers some of the implications of digitizing informed consent from the perspective of a critical bioethicist who is also an NIH-funded “developer” of a digital … Read more
Please save the date for the culminating event of the 2014-2017 Mellon Grant at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Humanities Futures! The capstone conference, titled Health Humanities & Social Justice: Breath, Body, Voice, will focus on the health humanities. We define health on a continuum from the health sciences to states of health, and … Read more
Travis Alexander, Mellon Graduate Fellow, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel HillThis talk will discuss the political motivations behind the Americans with Disabilities Act's inclusion of HIV/AIDS under the banner of "disability." Travis Alexander is a Mellon Graduate Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on critical race studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. His … Read more
ARE HUMAN RIGHTS RELEVANT TO ADVANCING GLOBAL HEALTH ANYMORE?Alicia Ely Yamin, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Adjunct Lecturer on Law and Global Health, Harvard University Panelist, UN Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for the SDGs (EWEC) Global Fellow, Centre on Law and Social Transformation (Norway)
The Dismantling Racism in Medicine Coalition, a group of students in the health sciences and the medical school, is putting on an interdisciplinary discussion on identifying and adopting anti-racist practices in health research.Panel Guests: Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MsC Center for Health Equity Research, Geni Eng, DrPH, MPH Department of Health Behavior, Raul Necochea, PhD Departments … Read more
Wylie Burke, MD, PhD is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington, Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Medical Genetics). Her work focuses on the ethical and policy implications of genetic information in research and health care. She co-directs the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network, a research partnership involving … Read more
What goes into the development of a bill at the legislature? When are data influential and when are they not? Experts Gerry Cohen and Alex Miller will answer questions about how state policy is made and how your research can influence it. • Gerry Cohen, JD, MA, has been deemed both the 'encyclopedia to the … Read more
We are very pleased to have Todd Savitt, Ph.D., present Race, Medicine, Authorship and the ‘Discovery’ of Sickle Cell Disease in 1910-1911. The first two case histories of sickle cell disease (SCD) appeared in the medical literature within three months of each other in 1910 and 1911. The very divergent stories of the first two … Read more
