Berman Institute Monthly Newsletter – January 2021
January 2021
Announcements
Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards: 2020 Awardees
Johns Hopkins University Research
Megan Collins and others from the eSchool+ Initiative were awarded funding for COVID-19 Related School Closings, Re-openings, and Household Mental, Social, and Economic Outcomes.
Cornell University, through Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s food security working group, in collaboration with the journal Nature Sustainability and with the participation of its sister journal, Nature Food, convened a year-long expert panel on ‘Innovations to build sustainable, equitable, inclusive food value chains.’ The panel has now released its report and summary. Jessica Fanzo served on the panel.
Mario Macis has been appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee on “A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution”.
The task of this committee is to “to conduct a study to examine the economic (costs), ethical, policy, regulatory, and operational issues relevant to organ allocation policy decisions involving deceased donor organs.”
Events
January 7, 5:00 pm
How Do We Ethically Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines?
A Zoom discussion of ethical considerations around access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, as well as how we can work together to maximize their benefits. Jeffrey Kahn was a panelist.
January 13, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Grey Matters: What the History of Vaccines Can Tell Us About the Future
Panel features Berman Institute founder Ruth Faden and National Advisory Board member Reed Tuckson.
January 25, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Seminar Series – Sick to Debt: Fixing Our High Out-of-Pocket Health Care System
Duke University’s Peter Ubel will discuss why Americans enroll in high out-of-pocket insurance plans and the problems they present
January 25, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
From Discovery to Delivery: COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy
Berman Institute Advisory Board member Reed Tuckson joins a panel of public health experts and vaccine industry executives for this discussion presented by JHU’s Carey Business School and Business of Health Initiative
Publications
Outreach
COVID-19 Vaccine: Ethics and Equity
Yoram Unguru spoke at a Lifebridge Health Legislative Discussion.
Ethical Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines: Who, When, How, and Why
Yoram Unguru spoke at the Lifebridge Health Town Hall.
An Ethical Approach Towards Prioritizing COVID-19 Vaccines in Health Care Settings
Yoram Unguru spoke at the Sinai Hospital Town Hall.
Let’s Talk Digital Ethics
Jeffrey Kahn was an invited panelist at the Network of Digital Evidence in Health’s 4th Annual NODE.health Digital Medicine Conference.
Reworking Justice in Research: The Time is Now
Jeremy Sugarman served as the moderator of this panel at the 2020 Advancing Ethical Research Virtual Conference, PRIM&R’s virtual conference.
National Equity and WHO SAGE Guidance
Ruth Faden presented at the Vaccine Allocation and Social Justice Conference.
Vaccine Ethics: What Are We Learning from COVID-19?
Hosted by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this event was moderated by Jeffrey Kahn and Ruth Faden was a panelist.