Events

Colloquium Series: This talk explores the role scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a US federal science agency, played in researching and testing vaccines for the human papillomavirus (HPV). Dr. Aviles argues that interpretations of “translational research” native to the NCI influenced these researchers’ efforts to design and test first- and second-generation HPV vaccines. … Read more

Dr. Jorge Pérez, Professor and Senior Researcher Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri.Jorge Pérez, MD has been a leader in Cuba’s response to HIV since the 1980s. He was the director of the AIDS Sanatorium in Santiago de las Vegas from 1989-2000 and of the Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kouri in Havana from 2007 … Read more

Visiting Pediatric Ethics Scholar: Ben Wilfond, MD, Director, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Professor and Chief, Division of Bioethics; Professor, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics; Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine.Please join us for this presentation examining the intersections of clinical care and research. Dr. … Read more

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

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