Choices at the end of life Medical and technological advances have considerably increased life expectancy. This has also led to difficulties, including a deterioration in health and quality of life. While deteriorating health and quality of life particularly affect the...
Implementing the principles of good randomized clinical trials The Good Clinical Trials Collaborative is a global community initiative that has developed new Guidance to promote and enable good randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs). One element of this work has brought...
Rare Diseases, Genomics and Justice The healthcare and support of individuals living with rare diseases raise important questions of justice, with implications for both research and clinical services. There are also questions of justice that relate to genomics: not so...
Technological tools to overcome language barriers in MHC The workshop will be part of an interdisciplinary and international research project on multilingualism in providing quality mental health care to migrants (MiM2M) funded by the VW Foundation. It includes five high-...
Embryo Models: Human or Device? 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 frompluripotent stem cells, these debates have evolved to encompass both familiar...
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...
