For decades, human embryos’ usage in research has spurred debates around ethics and governance. As technological advancements allow us to create increasingly realistic embryo models from pluripotent stem cells, these debates have evolved to encompass both familiar and novel ethical...
Bringing Men into the Spotlight: Men, Masculinities and Reproduction This workshop aims to explore men’s oftentimes missing and under-researched roles and perspectives in reproduction, as well as relating expressions of masculinities. To this end, we will bring together researchers from...
Self-Managed Abortion and Medico-Legal Systems My project will explore how feminist networks that facilitate self-managed abortion through the use of abortion pills in contexts where abortion is restricted or inaccessible are integral to the realisation of abortion rights. While some...
Corruption drivers, risks, and manifestations in mental health systems This project seeks to identify what drives corruption in mental healthcare systems of low and middle-income countries and how corruption impacts the quality of mental healthcare services.
Environmental Bioethics in the 21st century In 2014, the global carbon emissions of the healthcare industry were 2.0 gigatons or 4.4% of world emissions; if healthcare were a country, it would be the 5th largest carbon emitter worldwide. However, attention to...
Artificial images in global health The legacies of manufacturing artificial photographs and the implications of relying on artificial images (photo-realistic generative AI) in global healthcare aid on perceptions, practices, and relationships in the global health sector at at time when...
Commercial Determinants of Health The Working Group on the Commercial Determinants of Health at the World Health Organization, based in Geneva, is a clearinghouse for decades of work done looking at how public health considers commercial and corporate activity as...
AI and Ethics in Public Health Data Science in the African Context Data Science, AI, Public Health, Healthcare, Ethics, Social Implications, Algorithmic Fairness, Africa
Preventing & addressing complexities in DC&S This workshop will explore the complexities for individual and families created through Donor Conception and/or Surrogacy [DC&S], looking specifically about how changes in practice pre-conception might reduce or prevent these. Less attention has been...
