Events

The Summer Academy 2015 will address a much controversial topic: ELSI in assisted Reproductive Technologies. The impact in social life, the dimension of the infertility problem, the challenges raised by new developments of ART, Donor related issues, homoparenting, public policy...

The meeting will focus on the Latin American region and bring together leading practitioners and representatives from ministries of health to discuss how childhood cancer can be integrated with national child health plans and stragies. Participants will also discuss ways...

This workshop will explore the social and ethical issues raised for the future of neuroscience by the Human Brain Project and the analogous projects being carried out in the US and some other countries. These ‘brain projects’ aim to radically...

In our genomic age, race is increasingly used to analyze genetic and other scientific data. Despite the ascendance of race-based medical research and biotechnologies, people of color in the United States and globally continue to bear the burden of health...

La procréation médicalement assistée, les greffes d’organes et de tissus, l’utilisation de dérivés des produits sanguins ou encore de banques de cellules souches et de gamètes sont aujourd’hui des pratiques largement répandues dans le monde.  Elles améliorent la santé ou...

1. Genomic and Clinical Data Research Possibilities Medical research using genomic and other health-related data offers great potential in developing understanding of human biology, health and disease, and in the development of therapies to alleviate suffering. A great deal of...

It is a truism that some diseases are more visible than others in policy and media circles; the complex reasons underpinning this situation are less well known. Munificently funded eradication programmes, such as the one currently ranged against polio, ensure...

All health care systems are facing increasing demands within limited resources. Most countries are introducing systems to assess “value for money” that offer approaches to prioritising health services that seek to gain legitimacy with those on whose behalf they function....

This project is meant to gather international and national experts to reflect on the legal and ethical issues that are associated to the reporting of patient safety incidents and provide suggestions for global action. Safety has emerged as an issue...

When conducted according to ethical, legal, and scientific standards, clinical research minimizes risks to research participants, respects informed decision-making by prospective study subjects, complies with norms governing privacy and confidentiality of personal information, and responsibly addresses conflicts-of-interest.  Of course, clinical...

The subject of the workshop is the discussion and understanding of epidemiological biobanking and databasing practices as a societal issue. The workshop would focus on the dimension of communication through the exploration of novel formats of collaboration between academic and...

The phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism,’ in which patients travel to foreign countries to undergo supposed stem cell-based treatments in unregulated settings has been recognized as a problem for years. More recently, however, companies marketing such stem cell products of...