Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds: Annual Pediatric Visiting Scholar
TBAHolly Gooding, MD, MSc http://bioethics.unc.edu/cegr/
Holly Gooding, MD, MSc http://bioethics.unc.edu/cegr/
HEALTH HUMANITIES GRAND ROUNDS: Reflections on Race & Medicine in the Year of COVID-19 & Nationwide Protests. Damon Tweedy, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Duke University The COVID-19 pandemic has shined an ugly light on the longstanding racial and ethnic health disparities that persist in our country. Coupled with the televised murder of George Floyd, … Read more
Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture: Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America Lecture information: This lecture focuses on the case of Peru to explain the emergence and decline of the earliest Latin American coalitions of state health agencies, physicians, and lay people to broadcast the early signs of cancer. It … Read more
The story of CRISPR. The most important scientific discovery of the 21st century.
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 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
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
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
HEALTH HUMANITIES GRAND ROUNDS P R E S E N T E D B Y H H I V E & C A R O L I N A S E M I N A R S Drawing on 23 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 123 interviews, Dr. Tania Jenkins will explore social hierarchies of … Read more
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