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Do Your Part to Address Climate Change: VOTE!🌎 ✅ “Let’s be realistic. No single politician, government, or industrial leader can unilaterally implement the level of emissions reduction needed, and no single policy will bring emissions production to net zero. But any hope of containing the damage requires us to elect leaders who acknowledge the climate crisis and its cause. So, vote in every election you can.” NEW Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Cheryl Macpherson a professor at St George’s University School of Medicine. READ, https://bit.ly/40rSuE8 #bioethics #election2024 #climatechange #vote

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Nursing Awards! 📣 Prizes of $25,000 each will go to three nurses who provide outstanding end-of-life care, based on compassionate service and merit. Nurses at all levels of practice (LVN/LPN, RN/APRN) qualify for nomination. Deadline for nomination is January 31, 2025. Nominate a nurse you know, https://bit.ly/47LZwoN #bioethics #nurses

Egg and sperm donation offer hope to many who struggle with infertility, but raise profound Ethical, Legal, & Social Implications (ELSI). This is 5 of 5 papers based on the first-ever collected dataset of 20 years of publications on ELSI of Assisted Reproductive Techs #ART! https://lnkd.in/eD59KiVK #bioethics #ELSI

One of our 2 journals, Ethics & Human Research, aims to foster critical analysis of issues in science and health care that have implications for biomedical and behavioral research. Read some of our articles at the link. #bioethics #research #IRBs #ethics https://lnkd.in/eKVyGhZ

"Project 2025 has far-reaching implications for the work of bioethics.🤔 The call to dismantle the administrative state not only impacts health and health care, it also seeks to undermine the trust that we have in government and policymaking.” New Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Virginia A. Brown, MA, PhD and Bruce Jennings, READ https://bit.ly/3NFBYIN #bioethics #project2025

The broad applications of fertility preservation for both medical and nonmedical reasons raise questions concerning their ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI). This is 4 of 5 papers based on the first-ever collected dataset of 20 years of publications on ELSI of Assisted Reproductive Techs #ART! Read more, https://lnkd.in/eGK-6eNK #bioethics #ELSI

When Bioethics is Like Surfing: Changing Federal Policy. 🏄 “Through public communications, coalition-building, and a search to identify compelling voices within the public discourse, bioethics work sometimes manifests in meaningful policy change….when it happens, it’s as rewarding as surfing the perfect wave!” 🌊 New Hastings Bioethics Forum essay by Lori Bruce, Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, READ https://lnkd.in/egZYWuMz #bioethics #policychange #medicalconsent

New Project Announcement!📣 Bioethics has been dedicating much attention to the appropriate governance of health-AI, but this work is often not accessible to policymakers 🤔 … To close this gap, The Hastings Center is launching “Hastings on the Hill: Informing Policy on AI in Health.” Funded by the Greenwall Foundation, this project will bring world class bioethics to policymakers! Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky will lead the project, with Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon and Erin Williams 👏 We will develop effective methods and tools, to engage policymakers and promote wise and responsible AI policy. ✅ Learn more https://bit.ly/3A9bTPq #HastingsOnTheHill #Bioethics #AI

📣 📅 The next National Health Equity Grand Rounds on November 21 at 2:00 PM CT will be hosted in-person at Facing Race, the largest multiracial, intergenerational racial justice conference in the United States, and livestreamed for free to a virtual audience! Bringing together thought leaders from diverse backgrounds, "Rewrite the Script: Narrative Transformation for Equity in Health," the National Health Equity Grand Rounds event will showcase national thought leaders from diverse backgrounds—including physicians, writers, artists, and digital media experts—sharing insights on how we can challenge harmful narratives and reshape our approach to health. Bring Facing Race to you with this engaging event livestreamed for free to a virtual audience. ✅ Register for the FREE virtual livestream of the Grand Rounds session on November 21: https://bit.ly/4gMJqz8 👍   The event is developed by The Hastings Center, American Medical Association, ACGME, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and @DisabilityBelongs with support from ABIM Foundation, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), American Society of Addiction Medicine - ASAM, AMA Ed Hub, Boston Medical Center (BMC), Council of Medical Specialty Societies, HealthBegins, Kaiser Permanente, Sinai Chicago, Social Mission Alliance, European Commission, Rush University Medical Center, Medical Society of Delaware, American Epilepsy Society, American Society of Nephrology, Minnesota Medical Association, and MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society.   #healthequity #healthcare #meded #dei 

▶️ The Keynote ‘The #Rediscovery of #Bioethics’ by Professor Vardit Ravitsky at the DRZE anniversary symposium is online! Watch it on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/e4pqHsys 💡 Bioethics – a hub of thinking and activity   According to keynote speaker Professor Vardit Ravitsky, President and CEO of The Hastings Center, bioethics must rethink itself. It must confidently locate itself in the present and build bridges from health issues to questions of overall human well-being. Even before the coronavirus pandemic has it become clear that bioethicists must not only consider questions relating to the human being, but also questions relating to the whole of living nature. The focus of bioethics oriented in this way must be shifted from the individual to the collective, from the local to the global and from science to practice. After all, what is the purpose of a theory that is not applied? And how can bioethics act as a hub that builds interdisciplinary bridges? Professor Ravitsky addressed these and other questions in her keynote lecture ‘The Rediscovery of Bioethics’ on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DRZE.   ➡️ More information on our symposium: drze.de/25th Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn