Exploring the difficulty of making state-of-the-art machine learning models behave as we say, not as we do, and how technical choices that seems natural in other settings may not work well in health
This talk will defend a moderate skepticism about health. Dr. Barnes will argue that this form of skepticism can be helpful in addressing some of the problems we encounter in reasoning about health.
By Mehrunisha Suleman, PhD, University of Oxford
Equitable access, solidarity, and global health justice: Bridging the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics
Join Prof. Megan Collins at a National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health “Ask the Author” Webinar
Prof. Kadija Ferryman offers insight on developing products that don’t add to bias or worsened health disparities
Join our monthly midday discussion of clinical ethics issues
Discussion of how ISSCR’s update should allow the Guidelines to continue to serve as the standard for the field and as a resource for scientists, regulators, funders, physicians, and members of the public, including patients
The speakers will share work they have collaborated on across three main inter-related themes from their institutional base at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust research programme in Kenya: understanding ethical dilemmas faced by frontline staff in conducting their research; introducing support processes for frontline staff; and strengthening institutional community engagement
The 40th David Barap Brin Lecture in Medical Ethics
Liz Stokes, JD, MA, RN
Director of the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights
Thursday, February 10, 2022
4:30 pm Zoom
For the Zoom link and additional information, email Christina Dill at [email protected]
Members of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and University community are cordially invited to attend.
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In this talk, Dr. Jurkovich will explore some of the most pressing ethical challenges raised by contemporary international food assistance policies and operations as well as discuss some core findings from her new book Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger (Cornell University Press, 2020).
Dr. Michelle Jurkovich is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Previously, she served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology fellow working in the Office of Food for Peace at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In 2020 she was awarded a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and served as a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She is the author of Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger (Cornell University Press, 2020), and her work on food security, ethics, and human security has been published in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and Global Governance, among other outlets.
Monthly midday discussion of clinical ethics issues