Ethical Considerations In The Use Of AI Mortality Predictions In The Care Of People With Serious Illness
Health Affairs
Sep 16, 2020
Clinical Ethics
Education
The Curve: Special COVID-19 Online Edition of The Human Touch
Research
Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program
COVID-19 Resources
Predicting prognosis is as old as medicine itself. Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have led to algorithms that promise to answer one of life’s ultimate questions: When will I die? Co-author Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD concludes that aligning care with patient priorities and avoiding biases should be the explicit aims of such work. Read article>>
Throughout its 208-year history, the Journal has remained staunchly nonpartisan, until now. "Wow!," said Center Director Matthew Wynia, noting that the editorial which was signed by all 34 editors did not explicitly mention Mr. Biden, but it was clearly “an obvious call to replace the president.” Read article>>
Editors of the New England Journal of Medicine say the Trump administration “took a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”
New York Times
Oct 7, 2020
The pandemic has stimulated public health research across the spectrum of prevention, detection, treatment, and recovery. Lisa Bero, PhD is launching a series of methods articles aimed at improving the relevance and rigor of systematic reviews on public health topics. Using case studies from the Cochrane Collaboration, the articles illustrate innovative methods to involve stakeholders, frame questions, and design evidence syntheses. Read editorial>>
Improving the Quality of Systematic Reviews in Public Health: Introduction to the Series
American Journal of Public Health
Oct 8, 2020
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Artist Daisy Patton exhibits, "Put Me Back Like They Found Me," portraits of women forcibly sterilized in the United States.
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Ethics in Wearable Tech
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Join panelists from Strava, a leading fitness app company, and BioIntelliSense, a wearable vital signs monitoring company. This discussion will explore issues of data privacy, data
protection, conflicts of interest and more.
What Are Researcher Obligations When a Survey Reveals a Hot Spot of Suicidality?
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09:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Join us for this webinar about population health-risk surveillance in schools, hosted by American Journal of Bioethics Associate Editor Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD, featuring panelists Franci Crepeau-Hobson, PhD, Lisa M Lee, PhD, MA, MS, Arnold Levinson, PhD, MJ, and Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, as they discuss duties when public health researchers discover a hot spot of suicidality.
Racist Retail: Food and Drink in American Cities-Presentation by Naa Oyo A. Kwate, PhD
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
This talk will consider how retail outlets for food and drink—specifically, fast food restaurants and corner liquor stores—have disproportionately targeted African Americans; and conversely, how a set of restaurants that make racism the core feature of their presentation have been positioned to Whites.