President Biden recently declared that Covid-19 is over. But nearly 12,000 Americans have died from #Covid19 over the past 28 days. Is that ethical? READ 'How Many Covid-19 Deaths Should We Accept?' by Emily Largent & Franklin G. Miller #health #ethics thehastingscenter.org/how-many-covid…

📢Join us tomorrow for this #bioethics discussion on #biomarker #disclosure . Incredible panellist line-up! 👇 Global Brain Health Institute Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College (TCIN) Professor Brian Lawlor Bruce Miller Emily Largent Mackenzie Graham Elena Tsoy, PhD Francesca Farina UCSF MAC tinyurl.com/yjw3h3na

Excited to announce we're now accepting applications for our Postdoctoral Training Program in the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of Genetics and Genomics! Funded by National Human Genome Research Institute.

Learn more and apply: …dicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/elsipostdoc

Jeannie Baumann “Ideally, the pathway gets drugs to patients who lack meaningful options faster,” Emily Largent told me. “But before post-approval trials are completed, we are prescribing—and paying—for drugs while uncertainty remains about clinical benefits.” news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

The Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy Penn Medicine invites applications for our National Human Genome Research Institute funded postdoctoral training program in the ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics. Details & applications at …dicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/elsipostdoc.

Call for applicants!

We welcome interested and qualified candidates for fully funded two-year postbaccalaureate and postdoctoral #bioethics research fellowships.

Deadlines:
Postdoc: 12:01 AM January 1 EST
Postbac: 12:01 AM January 16 EST

Apply here: bioethicsapps.cc.nih.gov/bioethicsApp/

During a study, Sponsors and principal investigators should anticipate and proactively address participants and study partners’ questions and concerns when there is news from related clinical trials. Read more Participant FIRST Work Group recommendations nia.nih.gov/news/participa…

Listen up IRBs & investigators: OHRP emphasizes that payment may contribute to ADVANCING ethical conduct of research—and very rarely is so high as to present a risk of undue influence.

Please join us TOMORROW for OHRP's 2022 workshop on paying research participants!

Will you be coerced? No.
Will you be unduly influenced? No.
But you will learn more about the ethics of $$? Yes!

hhs.gov/ohrp/education…

Please join us TOMORROW for OHRP's 2022 workshop on paying research participants!

Will you be coerced? No.
Will you be unduly influenced? No.
But you will learn more about the ethics of $$? Yes!

hhs.gov/ohrp/education…

Thrilled to join the team with Emily Largent at the Penn Memory Center and UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy! Perfect timing with the publication of our first (of hopefully many) paper(s) together 🎉 Check out our paper on the broader implications of returning AD biomarker results! alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/da…

Two weeks ago, Claire Erickson (Claire Erickson, PhD, MPA) joined Penn Memory Center/UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy as a new post-doc! Yesterday, her latest article - on the social and policy implications of preclinical AD biomarker disclosure - came out. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/da… We're so glad she's here!

Our Call for Papers for our Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology to Support Aging is out!

Guest Editors Li Shen Emily Largent Lisa Walke and George Demiris

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

1. Excited to share a new paper with UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy MBE alum Sydney Churchill, Emily Largent, and Liz Taggert:

'Diversity in IRB Membership: Views of IRB Chairpersons at US Universities and Academic Medical Centers'

tandfonline.com/eprint/IXZMFFI…