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How Pandemics Show Us Who We Are: Race and Risk in the United States UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture with Mary T. Bassett

UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture on Oct 7, which the Center for Bioethics is once again co-sponsoring with the Department of Public Policy and the Gillings School. Dr. Mary Bassett will address how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Black Americans and other communities of color, as well as poor people of all backgrounds, … Read more

Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles

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Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles Dan Royles discusses his book, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS” “To Make the Wounded Whole” offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical … Read more

Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations

Please join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Wednesday, October 21, at 1:00 p.m. ET for the release of its new report Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations. This report will review the available data and future research needs relevant to persons of diverse sexualities and genders, and persons with differences in … Read more

Advancing Health Equity Solutions at UNC

Join us during University Research Week as we honor Carmen Samuel-Hodge, RD, PhD, the inaugural winner of the Gillings Health Equity Faculty Research Award. This award recognizes faculty who demonstrate excellence in research that has made a substantial impact on improved equitable outcomes or sustained reduction in inequities in a pressing public health issue. This … Read more

Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience:

A Workshop on the Intersection of Medical Advocacy and Medical Ethics Are there any professional ethical obligations for health care professionals to take responsibility for their colleagues' complicity, given the cultural and political differences that influence their work? What can and should health care professionals across the globe who are motivated to advocate on this … Read more

Pregnancy, the Pandemic and Morality of Reproduction

H E A L T H H UMA N I T I E S G R A N D R O U N D S Anne Lyerly, MD, MA The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a range of tensions at the interface of public policies and the private lives of individuals, including in the context of … Read more

The History of Anti-Vaccination

The History of Anti-Vaccination Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Elizabeth Salisbury MS2, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine The History of Anti-Vaccination Registration link:  https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kMwiRCVRB-KOq58Hfs6PA Lecture information: This talk investigates the origins of the anti-vaccination movement, tracing its roots back to the smallpox vaccine. The anti-vaccination movement will be explored through three lenses: mandatory vaccinations and government … Read more

The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic

Register here Lecture information: In the popular imagination, backwards and ignorant “medieval people” possessed no means of understanding or trying to combat the Black Death, the fourteenth-century outbreak of bubonic plague that ravaged Europe among other parts of the world. In fact, while medieval doctors lacked modern medical technologies and knowledge of disease pathology, they … Read more