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The Merrimon Lecture Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST Location: 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium Download flyer 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 Prof. Cohen...

Jill Fisher won the 2023 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association for her co-authored paper “Gendered Logics of Biomedical Research: Women in U.S. Phase I Clinical Trials” that was published in 2022 in the journal Social Problems. https://asasexandgender.wordpress.com/awards/

A team led by Kathleen Mullan Harris and Krista M. Perreira (MPIs)  at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Joseph Hotz and Naomi Duke (MPIs) at Duke University have received a five-year, $25.3 million National Institute of Aging (NIA) award. The award will address gaps in our...

Dr. Jill A. Fisher is the recipient of a three-year grant from the National Library of Medicine (NIH) to support the writing of a scholarly book on the medicalization and pharmaceuticalization of food allergies. Tentatively titled “Challenging Allergies: The Search for a Magic Bullet for Pediatric Food Allergies,” the book will explore how US...

Academy of Educators Names 2022-23 Teaching Award Recipients

Addiction Treatment Medicine Is Vastly Underprescribed, Especially by Race, Study Finds Black patients with opioid use disorder were far less likely to fill prescriptions for the most effective addiction treatments than white patients. But strikingly few patients of all races got the medicine.  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/health/addiction-treatment-buprenorphine-suboxone.html

This year’s Ned Brooks award went to Giselle Corbie, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine; Director, Center for Health Equity Research; Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. Corbie was recognized for her distinguished and sustained record of service to Carolina and the larger community. Corbie is noted for her dedication and...

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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dr. Anne Lyerly, a professor and OB-GYN, about how hospital ethics boards are being invoked when a patient requires a medical exception to an abortion ban. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1162917337/in-states-with-abortion-bans-hospital-ethics-boards-have-the-power-to-make-excep

The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 12 new fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. The new fellows focus...