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SUMMARY:Join us for: Ethics in Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Three Identical Strangers is a riveting documentary that traces the stranger-than-fiction\, true-life story of three triplets separated at birth who later find each other as adults. Searching for answers\, they discover that they were part of a research study designed to assess the power of genetics and social environment on their development. \nCome and join us for a viewing of the film\, followed by a discussion about how cases like theirs inform nature-versus-nurture debates and crucial ethical issues about separating siblings. \n  \nEvent Details \n📅 Date: November 19th \n🕛 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM \n📍 Location: 321 MacNider Hall \n🚨 Kindly let us know if you’re coming. We’ll have pizza ready! \nPlease RSVP: https://go.unc.edu/EthicsinCinema \n 
URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/join-us-for-ethics-in-cinema/
LOCATION:321 MacNider Hall
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SUMMARY:America’s Response to Covid: What Have We Learned?
DESCRIPTION:Douglas McKay (moderator) \nWhat can we learn from America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic?  How should policymakers deal with future pandemics?  In a recent book co-authored with Stephen Macedo\, Princeton professor Frances Lee argues that public health experts\, policy makers\, and the media failed to adequately consider the costs of lockdowns. In a conversation moderated by UNC public policy professor Douglas MacKay\, Lee will discuss America’s response to COVID-19 with David Wohl\, an infectious disease expert at UNC who helped lead the campus’s clinical and research response.
URL:https://publicdiscourse.unc.edu/event/americas-response-to-covid-what-have-we-learned/#new_tab
LOCATION:UNC Franker Porter Graham Student Union Auditorium
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SUMMARY:What Should Heroes Think of the Rest of Us? Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University) - Annual Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture 2026
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URL:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/2026-parrbioethics-joint-lecturer/#new_tab
LOCATION:G-100 Bondurant
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T170000
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SUMMARY:Love As the Reason We Need Abortion; Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University) - Annual Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture 2026
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URL:https://parrcenter.unc.edu/event/parr-center-presents-elizabeth-harman-princeton-university/
LOCATION:NC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T170000
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SUMMARY:The End We Choose [RSVP - Center for Bioethics]
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an important and thought-provoking event exploring the realities of serious illness and end-of-life care. \nSpeakers: \n\nDr. Arlene Davis\, Director of the UNC Center for Bioethics\nDr. Heather Altman\, Adjunct Assistant Professor at UNC and Director of the NC Serious Illness Coalition\n\nWe’ll also feature a powerful film created by Transitions LifeCare\, highlighting real patient experiences with palliative care. \nWhile this topic may feel distant from your life now\, it touches every family and community. Understanding it can shape how we think about care\, dignity\, and decision-making. This is a chance to engage with experts\, ask questions\, and reflect on an issue that matters deeply to society.
URL:https://heellife.unc.edu/event/12002392
LOCATION:Murphey Hall 116\, 204 Lenoir Drive\, Chapel Hill\, NC
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SUMMARY:Moral Distress and Burnout Among OB-GYN After Dobbs
DESCRIPTION:Mara Buchbinder\, PhD\n\n\n\nOBJECTIVES\n1. To understand how abortion laws and policies are impacting the ability to provide comprehensive reproductive health care.\n2. To describe ethical challenges that abortion bans raise for physicians.\n3. To identify tangible solutions for supporting and improving professional wellbeing among clinicians engaged in reproductive healthcare.
URL:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/moral-distress-and-burnout-among-ob-gyn-after-dobbs/
LOCATION:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/moral-distress-and-burnout-among-ob-gyn-after-dobbs/
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SUMMARY:ELSI Friday Forum | CRISPR Therapies for Rare Pediatric Disease
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URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/elsi/2026/01/elsi-friday-forum-2025-sept-12p-2-3-2-2/#new_tab
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SUMMARY:The 2025-26 Merrimon Lecture: Can We Balance Professionalism with the Extreme Financial Focus of U.S. Healthcare?
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URL:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/merrimon-lecture-2026/
LOCATION:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/merrimon-lecture-2026/
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SUMMARY:Healing for Healers Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Meet the Speakers:\nAdjoa Boateng Evans\, MD\, MPH\nAssistant Professor of Anesthesiology\nRimma Osipov\, MD\, PhD\nAssociate Professor of Medicine\nTerrence Holt\, MD\, PhD\nAssociate Professor \nThe goal of the inaugural Duke Anesthesiology Healing for Healers Symposium is to provide Duke Health clinicians with an immersive symposium experience that can combat the depersonalization pervasive in modern medicine towards rediscovery of one’s purpose. There is growing evidence that supports the introduction of humanities-based approaches into health care as a means of healing and rediscovery. The use of art will allow participants to express aspects of their personhood often difficult to articulate in everyday language. In doing so\, this symposium will also focus on promoting a holistic approach that aligns personal and professional goals with emphasis on incorporating physical\, mental\, and emotional well-being through the tools of narrative medicine\, restorative justice\, and humanism towards healing. Moreover\, unbeknownst tomany\, physicians take part in medical humanities exercises daily as storytelling is the bloodline of health care. In medicine\, we tell stories every day. Formally\, in a language and format embedded into the mind’s speech centers from the first days of medical school to informal decompression moments with colleagues. Thus\, this symposium would awaken this muscle through the use of expert facilitators to guide attendees through individual and group exercises that all offer introspection toward one’s professional identity by revealing how the art of storytelling can be used as a springboard to navigate purpose. Each attendee will craft a personal mission statement.
URL:https://anesthesiology.duke.edu/healing-healers#new_tab
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SUMMARY:The “Equitification” of Rights: How COVID-19 Rewrote the Story of Health and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Health and Human Rights Lecture\n\nWednesday\, March 4\, 2026\n5:30-7:00 PM\nLocation: Hybrid: Rosenau 133 or Webinar\n\nRoojin Habibi\nDownload flyer\n\nThe lawmaking reflexes that followed the COVID 19 pandemic have shifted global health debates away from hard won human rights norms and toward more ambiguous ideas of equity and solidarity. \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Roojin Habibi (University of Ottawa) traces this “equitification” of rights through the negotiations that led to the 2024 International Health Regulations amendments and the 2025 WHO Pandemic Agreement\, showing how these global health law reforms foreground distributive justice while sidelining decades of human rights advancements under international law. \nReflecting on the human rights implications of the COVID-19 response and subsequent reforms\, this presentation will bring into focus the work of communities of practice at the intersection of health and human rights\, including those behind the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies\, and illustrate how such collaborations can help re anchor pandemic law in a richer body of human rights norms and shape a fairer approach to public health emergency prevention\, preparedness\, and response. \nDr. Roojin Habibi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) and serves as Investigator and Research Director of Global Health Law at the Global Strategy Lab\, jointly based at York University and the University of Ottawa. Her research bridges international law\, public health law\, and human rights\, with a focus on normative interpretation and change in global health law and governance. \nWebinar available at https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VFza1bBGQcanoMb-0B1FeQ \nSponsored by:\nUNC Public Policy\nUNC Center for Bioethics\nUNC Gillings School of Global Public Health \nTo learn more about this Health and Human Rights Lecture Series\, please see the Public Policy website.
URL:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/the-equitification-of-rights-how-covid-19-rewrote-the-story-of-health-and-human-rights/
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SUMMARY:3rd Annual Symposium for Health Access Research in Southeastern North Carolina
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URL:https://www.med.unc.edu/thrivingcommunities/2026/02/10/march-13-3rd-annual-symposium-for-health-access-research-in-southeastern-north-carolina/
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SUMMARY:Save the Date: Book Panel on Animal Research
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 9\, 2026\n4:00-5:30 PM ET\nLocation: Registration Required – Kerr Hall\, Lecture Hall 2001\n\n\n\nA panel and audience discussion with a reception to follow. \nAn afternoon with the author of Lab Dog and esteemed panelists discussing history\, ethics\, and policies of animal research. \n  \nFeaturing: \nMelanie D.G. Kaplan\, freelance journalist and author of Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research \nSusan E. Lederer\, distinguished historian and author of Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War \nDeborah Blum\, Pulitzer-prize winning science journalist and author of The Monkey Wars \n  \nSponsored by: The Animal Studies Project and Parr Center for Ethics through the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Bioethics. \nFor students: CLE credit and credit for Parr Ethics Scholars are both available.
URL:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/book-panel-on-animal-research/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260422T070000
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SUMMARY:Joint Surgery – Bioethics Grand Rounds
DESCRIPTION:Save the Date\n\nClinical Ethics Grand Rounds\n\nWednesday\, April 22\, 2026\n7:00 am – 8:00 am\nLocation: Hybrid: 4th Flr Burnett-Womack Bldg and Zoom\n\nJustin Clapp\, PhD\, MPH\n\nAssistant Professor\nMedical Ethics & Health Policy\nPerelman School of Medicine \n\n\nJustin Clapp\, PhD\, MPH\, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine. He is also Associated Faculty in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Clapp is a linguistic and medical anthropologist who uses qualitative methods and anthropological theory to examine issues in empirical bioethics\, health care communication\, and medical decision-making. His primary work examines patient care trajectories in the perioperative and critical care spaces\, seeking to understand how diffuse chains of health care interactions lead to the pursuit of particular treatments.
URL:https://bioethics.unc.edu/talk/joint-surgery-bioethics-grand-rounds/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
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SUMMARY:Save the Date! 7th ELSI Congress 2026
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URL:https://news.unchealthcare.org/2025/10/henderson-receives-1-million-nhgri-grant-to-host-3-biennial-conferences/#new_tab
LOCATION:The Friday Center\, 100 Friday Center Drive\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27517\, United States
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