Berman Institute Monthly Newsletter June 2021
June 2021
Announcements
Elizabeth Ghandakly is the 2021 recipient of the Marcia Pines Award in Bioethics and Public Health for her paper, “Justice Concerns Facing America’s Senior Population Amid COVID-19”.
Leonard Rubenstein was the co-recipient of 2021 Public Health Practice Aware for COVID-19 Impact Award for Excellence in Baltimore COVID-19, JHSPH.
Prof. Fanzo Awarded $3.8 Million to Apply Human Rights-Based Approach to Food Systems
The award supports the first phase of a ten-year project to strengthen the capacity of governments, peasants, and other people living in rural areas to adopt and incorporate human rights frameworks such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) into food policy and food systems action.
The Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE) aims to provide a flexible collaborative platform for identifying and analysing ethical issues arising in infectious disease treatment, research, response, and preparedness, through the lens of global health ethics.
Bringing together scholars, trainees and partners from around the world, GLIDE undertakes both responsive research on pressing issues and forward-looking projects with longer timeframes.
The Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative is funded by a Wellcome Humanities and Social Science Award.
Several Berman Institute faculty and staff members were recognized for their Excellence in Teaching by the Bloomberg School for the 2020-2021 academic year, including Jeffrey Kahn, Nancy Kass, Pamala Martin, Anne Barnhill, Zackary Berger, Travis Rieder, Gail Geller, Maria Merritt, and Len Rubenstein.
Events
Food Systems Dashboard: A Year On
GAIN Interview Cruncher
June 3, 2021, 7:30 AM EDT
During this Interview Cruncher we will take a closer look at the Dashboard, including the new environment indicators, the Countdown Report, their relevance for the UN Food Systems Summit, and consider Member States takes from Germany and Guatemala, while discussing on the way forward and new plans to ensure countries can gain better ownership of the presented data.
Ethics for Lunch: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch
June 15, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 EDT
An interactive session in which we will review topics from the past year and provide an open forum for discussion of topics to consider for the next academic year. We are interested in hearing from the hospital community about the ethical issues that are faced by patients, families, communities, and members of the healthcare team.
Outreach
On May 28, Jeffrey Kahn gave a talk titled “Epidemic/Endemic – Bioethics: Reckoning with Structures,” at the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine as part of the Epidemic//Endemic Speaker Series.
On May 26, Leonard Rubenstein spoke to the government of Norway and others at a side event to the UN Security Council open debate on protection of civilians. His talk was titled “Protection of Healthcare: 5 Years After 2286.”
On May 24, Leonard Rubenstein spoke about Addressing the ongoing violence against health care in conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic at the Graduate Institute Geneva, World Health Assembly side event.
On May 21, Jeremy Sugarman, along with Christine Grady, gave a talk titled “COVID-19 and HIV Prevention Research: Meeting Ethical Obligations and Identifying Opportunities for Improving Ethics Guidance” at the NIAID/NIH Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS) Virtual Friday Seminar.
On May 20, Jeffrey Kahn served as the plenary speaker at the AAHRPP Annual Conference: Real Research in a Virtual World. His talk was titled “The Ethical, Regulatory and Research Complexities of Human Gene Editing – CRISPR.”
Debra Mathews gave a talk titled “Security Implications of Multi-Omics Research and Applications” as part of a roundtable at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Board on Life Sciences (BLS), Washington D.C.