Événements

HIV positive individuals are living longer, healthier and more productive lives with the advent of anti-retroviral therapies that are becoming more affordable worldwide. Those individuals who are healthy, and establishing stable relationships, are desiring children, desiring a family. This is...

More than ever the prospects of neuroscience research are bringing to the forefront major benefits and ethical challenges for medicine and society. The ethical concerns related to patients with mental health and neurological problems as well as emerging social and...

There is broad evidence indicating that the total number of persons experiencing disability has increased substantially in recent times, and that this is partly due to the development of medical technology. Very premature babies who previously would have died, and...

This workshop will bring together a group of social science, humanities and policy researchers who are studying – and at times actively engaged in – the emerging domain of environmental epigenetics research. Together we seek to critically engage arguments about...

A consensus building workshop, drawing together European academics working in and around empirical bioethicsmethodlodgy to consider standards of practice. Empirical bioethics The workshop seeks to bring together leading scholars from across Europe conducting research on Empirical Bioethics methodologies, with a view to...

Ever more frequently, innovation policies in biomedicine are driven by the idea that a large and growing volume of biological knowledge is being used to poor effect, as evidenced by the stagnating number of new therapeutic products being introduced on...

GENETIC ANALYSIS, GENETIC TESTING, DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER GENETIC TESTING, AND PRE-IMPLANTATION DIAGNOSTICS, ESPECIALLY NIPT, ARE EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE FASTEST GROWING AREAS IN SCIENCE. CURRENTLY, IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THEY ARE A BLESSING OR A CURSE. REGULATIONS AND ETHICAL POINTS OF...

The planned workshop on tuberculosis, ethics and human rights aims to highlight emerging ethical and legal dilemmas in the treatment and prevention of the global Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in order to identify policy gaps, elaborate a human rights-based approach and...

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...

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...

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an overview of current research on the genetic basis of human cognition and psychiatric diseases based on genome-scale and population-wide analyses and to discuss the medical and societal implications of this research...

This workshop will explore the ethical, legal, social, economic, and practical implications of the international expansion of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) with a particular emphasis on non-Western and developing nations.

A growing market for new digital technologies, including ‘wearable technology,’ smart phone apps, and other self-monitoring devices, is encouraging people to engage with feedback on their physiological and psychological functioning and to keep a record of their activity, including pulse...

Please note that due to a technical error, not all the participants and speakers are listed here. For a full list of speakers and participants please see “Abstracts” in the right-hand column.  Goal of the Workshop: Exploring whether and how the...

There has been a recent surge in the use of three-dimensional biomaterial printing (3D bioprinting) for a wide range of innovative experimental therapeutic applications ranging from orthopedic patient-specific transplants to custom-made biodegradable bronchial implants. With its potential to overcome the...

The aims of this workshop are   To discuss what kinds of conscientious objection are likely to be advanced by health professionals within the next decades, to develop criteria for determining the ethical acceptability of different kinds of conscientious objection...