Leading bioethics scholars from around the world lecture on vital issues in the field at our biweekly Seminar Series. Lectures, held at lunchtime, are free and open to the public.
Past seminars are video recorded and posted on our YouTube channel.
2022-23 | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19
2024-25
All seminars run from noon-1 p.m. and are usually held in person at the School of Public Health’s Feinstone Hall. Speakers and dates for Fall 2024 are confirmed; seminar topics will be updated as they become available.
9/9/24
A Coherent, Radical, Logical (Unspoken) Ethical Theory Likely Underlying the Biden Harris Administration Approach to Health Policy
By Jacqueline Fox, JD, LLM
9/23/24
Assessing and Re-Imagining the Integration of Ethics into Research: Why Now?
By Jenny Reardon, PhD
10/14/24
How to Prevent, Diagnose, and Treat Ethical Sepsis: A Guide for the Perplexedopic
By Jonathan H. Marks, BCL
10/28/24
Ethical and Pratical Approaches to Drug Shortages
By Andrew G. Shuman, MD, FACS, HEC-C
11/11/24
Alzheimer’s Disease, Decisions, and Decision Makers
Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture
By Emily Largent, PhD, JD
12/9/24
Topic TBD
By Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH
2023-24
1/29/24
The Social Value Misconception in Clinical Research
By Jake Earl, PhD
2/12/24 – POSTPONED
The Feb. 12 Seminar has been postponed. Information about a rescheduled date will be shared as soon as it is available.
Jenny Reardon, PhD
2/26/24
Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a post-Dobbs Landscape
By Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD
3/25/24
Reconfiguring the ethical imagination in clinical practice and medical education
By Michelle Munyikwa, MD, Ph.D
4/1/24
Catastrophe Ethics
by Travis Rieder, PhD
4/8/24
CANCELED: J. David Velleman, PhD
4/22/24
Higher Risk Organs Donated bv Pigs and People: Informed Consent and Equity Challenges in Kidney Transplantation
By Peter Reese, MD, PhD
4/29/24
Cost Containment: Protecting Vulnerable Elderly From Profiteering and Poor Quality Care
By Joan M. Teno, MD
Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture
5/13/24
From Carceral Healthcare to Abolition Ethics: A Moral Obligation to Move Towards Justice
By Jennifer James, PhD
2023
10/9/23
Downgrading Docs: Medical Authority in Roe, Dobbs—and Beyond
By Marc Spindelman, JD
10/23/23
Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: Towards a Robust Normative Framework
By Matthew Liao, PhD
The Development of Indigenous Bioethical Guidelines in Aotearoa New Zealand (Virtual Lecture)
By Maui Hudson, PhD
Health Misinformation Online: Can Social Media Influencers be Liable for Physical Harm?
By Leah Fowler, JD
One Health, One Ethic? Confronting the disunity of ethical oversight for human and nonhuman animal research
By Rebecca Walker, PhD
2022-23
9/12/22
Exploring the Black Box of Human Development: Scientific and Ethical Implications of Crossing the 14-Day Limit of Embryo Research
By Insoo Hyun, PhD
10/10/22
Constructive (data) Trusts
by Jasmine E. McNealy, PhD
10/24/22
“But Why Is That Better?”
By Vikki Entwistle, PhD
11/14/22
Anti-Racist Bioethics, Structural Racism, and the Struggle for Hearts and Minds
By Yolonda Wilson, PhD
12/12/22
Decolonizing Global Health: Do We Agree On What it Means?
By Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD
1/23/22
Becoming Good: Ethics of Early Intervention in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
By Iliana Singh, PhD
2/13/23
Diversity as a Challenge to Designing Ethical Food Systems?
By Matthias Kaiser, D.Phil.
2/27/23
Exploring Challenges in Vaccine Research through Challenging Cases
By Christine Grady, MSN, PhD
3/6/23
Ethical decision-making and the deliberative process: the ‘ETHOX Approach’ revamped
By Mark Sheehan, PhD
3/13/23
When Pregnancy is Punishment: Foreclosure of Abortion and the Traumas of Motherhood in Incarcerated Settings
By Carolyn Sufrin, MD, PhD
3/27/23
Failure or Full Circle: 35 years of research in Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making……getting to the next level
By Laurie Badzek, LLM, JD, MS, RN, FNAP, FAAN
4/10/23
Justice-Based Rationale for Imposing Limits on Research Risks
By Liza Dawson, PhD, MA
4/17/23
A Metabolic Ethics for Metabolism Cage Research
By Anthony Ryan Hatch, PhD
Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture: Ethical and Practical Challenges with Surrogate Decision Making
By Douglas White, MD
By Nicholas Nisbett, DPhil
2021-22
9/27/21
Think Again: Is Advance Care Planning Obsolete?
by James A. Tulsky, MD
10/11/2021
The Paradoxical Fragility of the Norms of Protection of Health Care in War by Len Rubenstein, JD
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10/25/2021
Rage Renegades by Myisha Cherry, MDiv, PhD
11/8/2021
F-AI-rest of Them All by Marzyeh Ghassemi
11/22/2021
Disability and Health: A Complicated Relationship by Elizabeth Barnes, PhD
1/24/2022
The 2021 Revised ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation by Robin Lovell-Badge
1/31/2022
Strengthening Ethical Practice at the Frontline of Global Health Research: Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges by Sassy Molyneux and Dorcas Kamuya
2/14/2022
Ethics and International Food Assistance by Michelle Jurkovich, PhD, MA
2/28/2022
Older People and Demands of (Global) Social Justice by Sridhar Venkatapuram, MSc, MPhil, PhD, FRSA, Hon, FFPH
3/14/2022
Kidney to Share: A living kidney donor’s experience and lessons learned about barriers and opportunities in kidney donation with Martha Gershun
3/28/2022
Diagnostic Ethics: Parameters for safe, ethical and socially just management of medically unexplained symptoms by Diane O’Leary, PhD
4/11/2022
Prognosis in Serious Neurological Disease: Opportunities and Challenges by Robert G. Holloway, MD, MPH
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4/25/2022
The Ethics of Surrogate Decision-Making by David S. Wendler, PhD, MA
5/9/2022
When Bad Things Happen to Good Deeds: Moral Problems with Beneficence with Karen Stohr, PhD
2020-21
9/21/20
COVID-19, Public Health and Equity: How to reduce the disproportionate impact on disadvantaged communities
Q&A with Dr. Leana Wen
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10/12/2020
Caesar Atuire, PhD
An African Philosophical Perspective on the Tension between Autonomy and Solidarity
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10/26/2020
Hugo Slim, PhD
Humanitarian Ethics, the COVID Crisis and Black Lives Matter
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10/30/2020
Ruha Benjamin, PhD
Viral Justice: Pandemics, Policing, and Public Bioethics
11/9/2020
Susan Block, MD –Hutzler-Rives Memorial Lecture
Clinicians, COVID, and the Culture of Medicine
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11/23/2020
Patricia Kingori, PhD
What Can a Focus on Fakes and Fakery Teach Us About Health?
12/14/2020
Anji Wall, MD
Decision-Making, Perceptions and Experiences in Uterus Transplantation
1/25/2021
Peter A. Ubel, MD
Sick to Debt: Fixing Our High Out-of-Pocket Health Care System
2/8/2021
Jim Lavery, MSc, PhD
Fair Partnership as a Determinant of Effectiveness of Global Health Campaigns and Implications for Research Ethics
2/22/2021
Jack Bobo
Can Agriculture Save the Planet Before it Destroys It?
3/8/2021
Roland Griffiths, PhD
Psychedelic Science: Therapeutic Implications and Ethical Challenges
3/22/2021
Barbara J. Evans, PhD, JD, LLM
Rules for Robots and Why AI/ML Medical Software Breaks Them
4/12/2021
Gloria Ramsey, JD, RN, FNAP, FAAN
Advance Care Planning in a Pandemic-Respecting Choices for Racially & Ethnically Diverse Communities
4/26/2021
Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FIDSA
Equitable Allocation of the Vaccine in an Unfair Pandemic
5/10/2021, noon
Diversifying Precision Medicine: Reflections from the Trenches of Clinical Translational Genomics
Stephanie Malia Fullerton, DPhil
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2019-2020
6/19/2020
Our Problem is Power
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
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5/11/2020
Applying Rigor to Data Collection in Machine Learning: Considerations in Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics
Timnit Gebru, PhD
Technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team
Google
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4/13/2020
Can the Researcher-Participant Relationship Ground Ancillary-Care Obligations?
Henry Richardson, JD, MPP, PhD
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3/9/2020
Moral Distress: A Time for Hope?
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Alisa L. Carse, PhD
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Affiliate
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
2/24/2020
Identifying and Assessing Barriers to Equitable Postpartum Sterilization
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Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE, MS
Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology and Bioethics
Case Western Reserve University
Practicing general obstetrician/gynecologist, MetroHealth Medical Center