What Should Heroes Think of the Rest of Us? Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University) - Annual Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture 2026
2026-01-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | G-100 Bondurant

America’s Response to Covid: What Have We Learned?
2025-12-02 17:30 - 19:00 | UNC Franker Porter Graham Student Union Auditorium
Douglas McKay (moderator)
What 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.

Join us for: Ethics in Cinema
2025-11-19 17:00 - 19:00 | 321 MacNider Hall
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.
Come 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.

Event Details
📅 Date: November 19th
🕛 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
📍 Location: 321 MacNider Hall
🚨 Kindly let us know if you’re coming. We’ll have pizza ready!
Please RSVP: https://go.unc.edu/EthicsinCinema

ELSI Friday Forum - What do researchers owe the Autistic community?
2025-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 | NC
Panelists Monique Botha, PhD and Tara Eicher, PhD, and moderator Ari Ne’eman, PhD

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Harvard's Mind-Body Medicine and Clinical Use of Integrative Stress-Free Reduction
2025-11-13 19:30 - 20:30 | TBD
This event was shared with the Department of Social Medicine by an undergraduate student at UNC who reached out on behalf of Pranam, a Bryan Fellowship initiative focused on advancing cultural competency and integrative approaches in healthcare.
They are hosting Dr. Darshan Mehta — Medical Director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of Education at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School — for a campus-wide talk on:
Mind-Body Medicine & its Integration into Clinical Practice
Thursday, November 13th at 7:30 PM
Open to undergraduates, graduate students, medical students, and pre-health students of all disciplines
This is Dr. Mehta’s signature talk given at universities and medical schools across the country.
LOCATION TBD – Follow @UNC_PRANAM on Instagram for more updates!

Moral Distress and Burnout Among OB-GYNs After Dobbs
2025-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | https://www.med.unc.edu/socialmed/event/moral-distress-and-burnout-among-ob-gyns-after-dobbs/
Nov 7 2025 | 12 – 1pm

Zoom | Free | Open to All
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Since the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, 17 U.S. states have functionally banned abortion, creating clinical and ethical challenges for physicians practicing in these jurisdictions. In this presentation, Dr. Buchbinder will present findings from her qualitative research with obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) providing care in states with abortion bans. Findings reveal pervasive impacts of state abortion bans on OB-GYNs—including moral distress, conflicts with clinical colleagues, health and wellbeing consequences, and reduced job satisfaction—with implications for physician health, workforce sustainability, and patient outcomes. Institutional practices to support and protect OB-GYNs in restrictive policy environments may help to mitigate the impacts of abortion bans on physicians’ wellbeing.
Learning Objectives: After this webinar, attendees will be able to:

Understand how abortion laws and policies are impacting the ability to provide comprehensive reproductive health care.
Describe ethical challenges that abortion bans raise for physicians.
Identify tangible solutions for supporting and improving professional wellbeing among clinicians engaged in reproductive healthcare.

This is an event of the Office of Academic Clinical Affairs (OACA), hosted by the Center for Bioethics, and co-sponsored by the following U of MN Units: Program in Health Disparities Research, Medical School; Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts; Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC); Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, College of Liberal Arts; Center for the Study of Political Psychology, College of Liberal Arts; Masonic Cancer Center (MCC); Minnesota Population Center; Healthy Weight Research Center; Rural Health Research Center; Business Advancement Center for Health (BACH), Carlson School of Management, College of Pharmacy; Medical School; School of Public Health; School of Nursing.

Beyond the Cradle: Exploring the Bioethics of Artificial Womb Technology for Extreme Prematurity
2025-10-30 - 2025-10-31 | Duke University School of Medicine
When: Thursday & Friday October 30-31, 2025
Where: Duke University School of Medicine
Who: Everyone interested in the ethics of Artificial Womb Technology for extreme prematurity (clinicians, researchers, patients, ethicists, etc.)
Cost: Free
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Artificial womb technology is a new and groundbreaking technology aimed at helping extremely premature infants (born at 22-24 weeks of gestation) continue to develop in a fetal state. While this technology has shown success in fetal lambs and is now moving towards human trials, questions about the ethical, legal, and societal implications warrant discussion. This two-day symposium will bring together speakers to present chapters for a planned anthology intended to help inform and guide future research.
Day One:

History of Neonatal Incubation/ Dr. Jeffrey Baker, Duke University School of Medicine
History of Neonatal Innovation/ Dr. Johanna Schoen, Rutgers University
Extreme Prematurity/ Dr. Katharine Callahan, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Artificial Womb Technology/ Dr. Alan Flake, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Moral Status of the Fetonate/ Dr. James Mumford, University of Virginia
Ethics of Viability/ Dr. Christopher Collura, Mayo Clinical College of Medicine
Research Ethics/ Dr. Robert Nelson, Johnson & Johnson

Day Two:

Legal Considerations/ Dr. Henry “Hank” Greely, Stanford Law School
Maternal and Societal Considerations/ Dr. Anne Lyerly, UNC-Chapel Hill
Justice & Distribution/ Dr. Lisa McElroy, Duke University School of Medicine
Future Directions/ Dr. Felix De Bie, Duke University School of Medicine

Ethics Grand Rounds: Hugh M. Lee, J.D.
2025-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 | 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium
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Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

Wednesday, September 24, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Location: 4008 Old Clinic Auditoriu

Hugh M. Lee, J.D

Teaching Professor
Co-Director of Accreditation & Continuous
Quality Improvement
Dept. of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies
Brody School of Medicine
East Carolina University
In January 2015, Hugh M. Lee joined the Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies. His research focuses on health policy and the ethics of substituted decision-making in the medical context. Prof. Lee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Davidson College and a Juris Doctor from the Florida State University College of Law. Before joining the Department, Prof. Lee taught for 19 years at the University of Alabama School of Law.
Prof. Lee has published extensively on legal issues, such as election law, HUD housing programs, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, Guardianship, and health policy, and has presented both regionally and nationally on these issues.

Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are those of the presenter, they do not necessarily reflect the views of the contracted organization, department, School of Medicine, nor the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Annual Pediatric Visiting Ethics Scholar: Kelly N. Michelson, MD, MPH
2025-09-18 08:00 - 09:00 | 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium
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Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

Thursday, September 18, 2025
8:00 – 9:00 AM ET
Location: 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

Kelly N. Michelson, MD, MPH

Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) – Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Professor, Pediatrics (Critical Care)

Kelly Michelson, MD, MPH is Professor of Pediatrics, Julia and David Uihlein Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and Chief Ethics Officer of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in the division of pediatric critical care medicine.

Co-hosted with the Department of Pediatrics
Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are those of the presenter, they do not necessarily reflect the views of the contracted organization, department, School of Medicine, nor the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Neuroethics Grand Rounds: Christine Grady, MSN, PhD
2025-09-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Cancer Hospital Conference Room 1 – Sanofi Aventis, 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
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Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

Thursday, September 4, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Location: Cancer Hospital Conference Room 1-Sanofi Aventis

Christine Grady, MSN, PhD

Dr. Grady is a nurse-bioethicist and a senior investigator who is the former Chief of the Department of Bioethics. Dr. Grady has published widely in the biomedical and bioethics literature and authored or edited several books, including The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics.
Co-hosted with the Department of Neurology

Selected Publications

Hendriks S, Grady C. Ethics and Highly Innovative Research on Brain Diseases.(external link) N Engl J Med. 2024;390(23):2133-2136.

Hendriks S, Hsu N, Beckel-Mitchener AC, Ngai J, Grady C. Continuing trial responsibilities for implantable neural devices.(external link) Neuron. 2023;111(20):3143-3149.

Baffoe-Bonnie MS, Jameson Floyd K, Livinski AA, Grady C. A scoping review exploring cure definitions and language for inherited hemoglobinopathies.(external link) Genet Med Open. 2024;2.

Ulrich CM, Ratcliffe SJ, Hochheimer CJ, Zhou Q, Huang L, Gordon T, Knafl K, Richmond T, Schapira MM, Miller V, Mao JJ, Naylor M, Grady C. Informed Consent among Clinical Trial Participants with Different Cancer Diagnoses.(external link) AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2024;15(3):165-177.

Grady C. Informed Consent.(external link) N Engl J Med. 2017;376(20):e43.

Building Bridges: Data Systems for Research and Evaluation
2025-07-16 11:00 - 12:00 | NC
Building Bridges: Data Systems for Research and Evaluation | Registration
Presenter: Marlena Kuhn, MPH
With a showcase of examples, learn how practical applications of integrating data tools and processes can build systems that facilitate research and evaluation. Examples will range from recruiting for clinical trials to evaluating published research impact.
Register: https://go.unc.edu/BridgesRegistration

ELSI Friday Forum: Biosecurity in the Age of AI and Genomics
2025-07-11 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
Biosecurity in the Age of AI and Genomics
with speakers Jassi Pannu, MD, Gigi Gronvall, PhD, and moderator Stephanie Guerra, PhD.
The convergence of AI and biotechnology is reshaping both the promise and the peril of biological research, potentially increasing beneficial capabilities to achieve new therapeutics faster while also introducing new risks that nefarious actors could misuse of biology. Scientists have long considered and taken action to mitigate the dual use risks of biological materials. Recombinant DNA technologies increased the urgency of action. Now, the advent of artificial intelligence, in combination with more sophisticated genetic read and write capabilities necessitates rethinking of the moral obligations of scientists and policy makers. This session will describe the new types of risks enabled by combined data and biological technologies and discuss proposals for effective governance.

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Circles of Influence: Evaluation Through Social Networks
2025-07-09 11:00 - 12:00 | NC
Circles of Influence: Evaluation Through Social Networks | Registration
Presenter: Bernard A. Coles IV, PhD
Learn about how network science strengthens evaluation. This webinar will cover the key components of network analysis, common measurements, and what network insights can teach us about the effectiveness ofprograms, policies and initiatives
Registration: https://go.unc.edu/CirclesRegistration

ELSI Friday Forum - Rigor, Reproducibility and Responsibility: ELSI Questions in Population Data Practices
2025-06-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Rigor, Reproducibility and Responsibility: ELSI Questions in Population Data Practices
with speakers Anne Flanagin, RN, MA, FAAN, Genevieve Wojcik, PhD, MHS, and moderator Aliya Saperstein, PhD.
As large-scale genomic data sets are increasingly linked, harmonized, and repurposed across studies, questions about how to meaningfully define and compare population descriptors have taken on renewed urgency. This panel brings together members of recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees and a leading medical journal editor that have offered guidance surrounding the use of population labels in biomedical research. Panelists will explore the scientific and ethical implications of existing classification practices, the challenges of ensuring analytic rigor across studies that use heterogeneous descriptors, and the responsibilities of researchers, funders, and journals in advancing transparent, reproducible, and scientifically rigorous practices.

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Workshop: Societal and Ethical Implications and Community Engagement Associated with Microbiome Engineering in the Built Environment
2025-05-13 13:00 - 16:30 | NC
The 2025 PreMiEr SEI Symposium is a virtual workshop designed to bring together researchers, engineers, ethicists, and policymakers to examine the societal and ethical dimensions of microbiome engineering in the built environment. Over the course of the afternoon, participants will explore governance frameworks, public perceptions, and strategies for meaningful community engagement. This symposium provides a collaborative space to critically assess the broader implications of microbiome research and identify pathways for responsible innovation.

Hybrid Event | Comparing Patient and Physician Attitudes About Applications of AI in Healthcare
2025-05-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Roper Hall 6310
Tuesday, May 6
4:00—5:00pm ET
Roper Hall 6310 or via Zoom
Presented by Richard Sharp, Ph.D.
Lloyd A. and Barbara A. Amundson Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Director of the Biomedical Ethics Program, the Center for Individualized Medicine Bioethics Program, and the Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Program
While artificial intelligence appears ready to transform multiple aspects of healthcare, studies examining physician and patient opinions about digital-health tools have been limited. This presentation will explore physician and patient perspectives on the ethical issues raised by potential uses of AI in medicine, focusing on areas where doctor and patient perspectives may not be in alignment and could generate ethical tensions.
Dr. Sharp has published widely on topics in biomedical ethics and has led several projects exploring patient and clinician perspectives on emerging healthcare technologies. His presentation will focus on stakeholder perspectives on several applications of AI in healthcare, including in psychiatry and medical documentation. He will also discuss what leaders of Academic Medical Centers might do to proactively cultivate a culture of AI safety and ethical accountability.
Please register to attend. https://go.unc.edu/sharp

Population Genomic Screening: From Biobank Return of Results to a Clinical Screening Pilot
2025-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

Location: Webinar: Registration Required

Juliann Savatt, MS, CGC

Assistant Professor, Genomic Health, Geisinger
Co-director, Geisinger MyCode Genomic Screening and Counseling Program
Please register to attend. https://go.unc.edu/jsavatt
Currently, identification of individuals with genomic risk remains largely dependent on clinical testing that relies on a personal/family history of disease and, access to specialty care. However, some patients with suggestive history do not come to clinical attention. Also, testing criteria are not adequately sensitive to identify all at-risk patients. Genomic screening offers a strategy to close the gap and identify more at-risk patients thus enabling increased surveillance, primary prevention, and early diagnoses.
Geisinger has over 10 years of experience screening and disclosing actionable genomic findings to biobank participants and has expanded genomic screening into clinical care through a primary care pilot. This presentation will summarize these experiences to date including the rate of pathogenic/likely pathogenic results, clinical care and outcomes following results disclosure, and patient and clinician perspectives.

Book Talk: The Occasional Human Sacrifice
2025-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 | 321 MacNider Hall
We invite you to join us for the talk in person.
Location: Registration required; 321MacNider Hall or Zoom
Light refreshments will be served! Kindly RSVP to help us organize better.
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
Carl Elliott was originally trained in medicine before going into philosophy, and his most recent book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, is about whistleblowing in medical research. Carl grew up in Clover, South Carolina, where his father was a family doctor and his mother was a librarian. He attended Davidson College, the Medical University of South Carolina and Glasgow University in Scotland, training first in medicine and then in philosophy. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Otago in New Zealand and the University of Natal Medical School in South Africa, he joined the faculty at McGill University in Montreal. Elliott moved to the University of Minnesota in 1997 to join the Center for Bioethics. He is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy.
Carl is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress, a resident fellowship at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, and a Weatherhead Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Mother Jones and The American Scholar. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Sydney, and the University of Otago, where he is an affiliate of the Bioethics Centre. He and his wife, Ina, have three children and live in Minneapolis.
For more information on Carl Elliott, please visit https://www.carl-elliott.com/.

Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week
2025-04-07 - 2025-04-10 | NC
The 2025 Paul A. Godley Health Equity Research Week (HERW) is coming!
About HERW
HERW, hosted by the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), brings faculty, staff, students and community members together to share health equity research at UNC. HERW is an opportunity to facilitate collaboration, innovation and equity in the UNC School of Medicine, across Carolina’s communities and beyond. All sessions are open to the entire Carolina community and the general public.
In 2020, the UNC School of Medicine collaborated with CHER to host the first Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium. In 2023, the symposium expanded into a week dedicated to highlighting health equity research at Carolina. HERW 2025 will include research presentations, panel discussions and more.
New this year, we’re excited to announce the Ada Adimora Student Research Award!

Annual Parr | Bioethics Joint Lecture: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Baylor College of Medicine)
2025-04-02 17:00 - 18:30 | Murphey 116
Please join us for the 2025 Parr|Bioethics Joint Lecture, co-sponsored annually by the Parr Center and the Center for Bioethics.
The 2025 Joint Lecturer will be Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby.

Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, Ph.D., is the Cullen Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, with a specialization in bioethics, from Michigan State University. Her research focuses primarily on the ethical issues raised by research on human judgment and decision-making (e.g., decisional biases and heuristics, behavioral economics). Dr. Blumenthal-Barby has been the recipient of a prestigious Greenwall Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics and a Pfizer Bioethics Fellowship, and she has served as the Principal Investigator on four awards from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study and improve decision making in advanced heart failure. Most recently, she received funding as a Co-Principal Investigator to study ethics and decision making in pediatric deep brain stimulation through the NIH BRAIN initiative.
Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 PM.

Center for Health Equity Research: Visit our table during the 46th Minority Health Conference
2025-02-28 | The Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517, United States
The 46th Minority Health Conference is coming! Come visit our table on February 28 during the conference. This year’s theme is Bridging the Digital Divide: Leveraging Technology and Data for Health Equity.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MINORITY HEALTH CONFERENCE

Ethics Around the Table: Rebecca Walker (UNC Philosophy and Social Medicine)
2025-02-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, 200 South Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Ethics Around the Table: Rebecca Walker, UNC Philosophy and Social Medicine
Topic: Doctors in prisons.

Rebecca Walker is a professor in the Philosophy Department at UNC, with a joint appointment in the Department of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine. She uses philosophical and empirical research methods to address questions at the intersection of biomedicine and ethics. Her areas of focus include animal ethics, practical virtue ethics, and topics in health justice. She has published widely in prominent bioethics, science, philosophy, and medicine journals, and her co-edited books include Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (2007); Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice (2016); and the two-volume Social Medicine Reader (2019). Her monograph Of Mice and Primates: Virtue Ethics and Animal Research is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Lunch will be served.

How Artificial Intelligence Might Save Bioethics (And it’s not how you think)
2024-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | 5302 Roper Hall
Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D. FRSC FCAHS ICD.D
Thursday, October 24, 2024
12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Location: Hybrid: 5302 Roper Hall & Zoom webinar

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By now society has become familiar with the promised benefits and potential pitfalls of the artificial intelligence revolution. Not since the early years of genetic engineering has a technology captured our imagination and fears so quickly. But AI has done something else – it has dragged bioethics into unfamiliar territory: this is because AI does not fit comfortably under one category of analysis (e.g., research, policy, technology development, public health) nor is even limited to the health sector, but touches on every sector of society including trade policy, national security, banking, and immigration, among others. This is a good thing, as it calls on bioethics to take stock of how it can (and should) engage in future-altering policy debates.
About the speaker
Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D. FRSC FCAHS ICD.D has more than 35 years of experience in academic, government and not for profit settings.
Dr. Meslin is a Distinguished Research Scholar at the University of Miami, an Adjunct Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, a Visiting Scholar in the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University and a Senior Fellow at the PHG Foundation, University of Cambridge. He is the former President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) and the former director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics.
From 2016-2023, Dr. Meslin was President and CEO of the CCA, an organization undertaking expert assessments for the government of Canada and other sponsors on society’s most pressing policy issues including climate change, artificial intelligence, health data, transportation, Arctic research, Indigenous affairs, and international science and technology policy.
Dr. Meslin came to the CCA from Indiana University (IU), where he was the Founding Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics for 15 years, Associate Dean for Bioethics in the IU School of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine, of Medical & Molecular Genetics, of Bioethics and Law, of Public Health, and of Philosophy. In 2012 Dr. Meslin was appointed IU’s first endowed Professor of Bioethics.
Dr. Meslin has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, as Professor-at-Large at the University of Western Australia, and as the Pierre de Fermat Chaire d’Excellence at the Université de Toulouse.
Before Indiana University, he was Bioethics Research Director of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications program at the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute, and then Executive Director of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Dr. Meslin has more than 200 published articles and book chapters on various topics in bioethics and science policy. He has been an advisor and served on committees of the World Health Organization, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, Genome Canada, OECD, UNESCO and the UK Biobank.

Spark Series on Faculty Research with Seth Berkowitz
2024-10-21 12:00 - 12:50 | https://www.med.unc.edu/cher/event/lunch-learn-faculty-research-webinar/
October 21 @ 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm

Dr. Seth Berkowitz will discuss his new book, Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State.
A general internist and primary care doctor, Dr. Berkowitz will present on how social conditions and mechanisms link injustice to poor health. He’ll share what policies may be effective at achieving better systems to improve health for all. After the talk, attendees will dive deeper into the topic in smaller groups and have a chance to learn about one another’s work and practices.
About the Spark Series
The new Spark Series on Faculty Research is meant to ignite new ideas and connections for faculty health researchers. Sessions will feature guest presenters and networking opportunities.
The series is a chance for faculty researchers advancing equity through their work to hear and learn from one another. Topics will include health equity research concepts, methodology, principles, impacts and more. The series goal is to generate new thinking and innovation in the practice of research.

Merrimon Lecture: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Health Care: Ethical and Legal Challenges
2023-10-26 12:00 - 13:30 | 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium
I. Glenn Cohen
Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics
Merrimon Lecture

Ethical Issues in the Use of A.I. In Mental Health Care
2023-10-18 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
he Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics and Mental Health

Wednesday, October 18, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Location: Registration Required

Dr. Serife Tekin

Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health
Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Early Modern Economies of Care: Practices of Giving and Receiving Care in the 16th and 17th Century
2023-10-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Bondurant Hall G030
Early Modern Economies of Care: Practices of Giving and Receiving Care in the 16th and 17th Century
Mandy Fowler, Doctoral student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill

Tuesday, October 3, 2023
12:00 PM ET
Hybrid lecture

“Early Modern Economies of Care” explores practices of giving and receiving care as they existed in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. In this presentation, Mandy will share insights from their research as the 2022-2023 McLendon-Thomas Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill. As a Rare Books Fellow, Mandy used a variety of materials in the Wilson Library Rare Books Collection, including medical guides for physicians and household caregivers, familial letters and legal documents, and other printed or manuscript texts to better understand the complexities of caregiving from the perspectives of both the givers and receivers of care. Mandy’s research pays particular attention to the ways in which intellectual and religious movements of the period influenced early modern approaches to care.

Mandy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC, where they study early modern literature with an emphasis in the history of medicine, materiality, and domestic culture.

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In Vitro Neural Platforms
2023-10-02 08:00 - 16:00 | NC
Monday, October 2, 2023
8:00 am – 4:00 pm EST
Location: Friday Conference Center

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This is an in-person event; Please visit https://tinyurl.com/28eop7ry to register.
As the use of in vitro neural platforms like brain organoids and microtissues increases, there is a lack of general knowledge about the limitations of the platforms. Bioethicists and scientists may also have concerns about the implications of the use of these systems in clinical and nonclinical research.

Health Humanities Grand Rounds presents: Dr. Will Bynum (Duke University)
2023-09-28 15:30 - 16:45 | NC

Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment and Criminal Justice
2023-09-27 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
The Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics and Mental Health

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 pm EST
Location: Registration Required

Dr. Gregg Caruso

Carolina Seminar on Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health
Please contact Dan Moseley, daniel_moseley@med.unc.edu, for registration information. These events are free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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