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Dr. Walker’s new book, Of Mice and Primates (Oxford University Press 2025), reorients our moral concern about animal research, and offers a moral theory focused on what actually happens in research settings.

Mara Buchbinder, PhD, has been named chair of the department of social medicine. Dr. Buchbinder, who currently serves as the department’s vice chair, will assume the role on Feb. 1, 2025. In addition to her role, Dr. Buchbinder is professor of social medicine and adjunct professor of anthropology at UNC,...

Raúl Necochea, School of Medicine Dr. Necochea brings an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to teaching, particularly in the integration of humanities, social sciences, and medicine. His work with Latin American students to promote global health equity and his leadership of an oral history project documenting the experiences of the first...

Congratulations to Dr. Stuart Rennie, who has been elected as of the 2024 fellows for the Hastings Center!  Hastings Center fellows are a group of about 300 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. Click...

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Jill A. Fisher and Maral Erol are co-authors, with colleague Edwin H. Kim, on a new article in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. The researchers interviewed providers in community practice or academic medical centers. They asked providers about “their perceptions of the risks and benefits of current and future FA treatment options,” with...

Since the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 18 states have put functional abortion bans in place. New research fills a gap in understanding impacts on physicians after these bans. Mara Buchbinder, Kavita S. Arora and colleagues identify sources of moral distress impacting...

In the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Dr. Jon Oberlander tackles these policy issues in a new Perspective piece titled “Health Care Reform and the 2024 U.S. Elections — Low Visibility, High Stakes.” Oberlander is a professor and chair in UNC’s Department of Social Medicine and a professor of...

Through an analysis of 500+ FDA-authorized AI medical devices, Sammy Chouffani El Fassi, a MD candidate at the UNC School of Medicine and researcher at Duke Heart Center, and Gail E. Henderson, PhD, professor of social medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, discovered a lack of published clinical validation data for many...

Building on their recent research, Mara Buchbinder, PhD, professor and vice chair of Social Medicine, and Kavita Arora, MD, director of the UNC Division of General Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Midwifery, published a viewpoint article in JAMA about how institutions can support OBGYNs in states with the most restrictive abortion laws....