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This workshop is expected to take place towards the end of a three-year research project, funded by the Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research (2013-2016). This project entitled “Unraveling lessons learned from the A(H1N1) pandemic to the 2014 Ebola epidemic”...

Although the relevance and crucial importance of epidemiological studies to contemporary psychiatric research and practice are undeniable, they still raise fundamental problems that two transformative periods in psychiatric epidemiology have yet to resolve. The first period (1960-1980s) developed tools for...

During this workshop, we will discuss the ethical, legal and practical issues of conducting post-mortem genetic testing with the ultimate aim of drafting European recommendations. We will focus on the case of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young adults (less...

Building upon current debate about public engagement with emerging technologies, the workshop brings together ELSI and STS scholars to discuss issues related to public participation when dealing with ethical, social and public health issues of genome research and its clinical...

Early results of hand and face transplants and other grafts such as those of uterus, penis or abdominal wall (otherwise called vascularized composite allografts, or VCAs) have confirmed the potential to restore appearance, anatomy, function, independence, and social status for...

The global health community is well aware that antibiotics are a vital resource for human existence. Antibiotics are not only needed to treat common infections that could otherwise become life-threatening, they also make many everyday interventions such as surgeries and...

Presentation and discussion of first results of our subprojects within the interdisciplinary research project “How to support children with ADHD” with external experts from different fields. What are the medical, legal, ethical and social implications of these results? What are the main concern of...

The growing complexity of the digital ecosystem in combination with increasing global risks entail the danger that enforcing cybersecurity may bypass other fundamental values like equality, fairness of privacy, whereas downplaying cybersecurity would undermine citizens’ trust and confidence in the...

Care robotics has been emerging as response to demographic and economic challenges in health care systems in the developed world and is receiving substantial amounts of funding by national and international funding bodies. Despite the strategic endorsement of care robotics...

The workshop will look at the effects of health recommendations by medical apps on patients’ autonomy, health literacy and empowerment and discuss potentials and challenges of algorithm-based medical advice. We will focus on apps designed as an assistance tool for...

The workshop will explore the diverse socio-ethical and regulatory implications of citizens’ growing use of digital media to connect to healthcare. It will bring together scholars with expertise in bioethics, sociology, anthropology, biomedical science and law to consider how digital...

Examining the use of qualitative evidence to inform health and social care decision making. In particular, assessing the role of qualitative evidence in helping to ensure that the ethical, social and systems implications of interventions and programmes are considered.

New health technology has important ethical and social justice implications that are not adequately addressed by the health technology assessment (HTA) processes currently used to inform decision making in high, middle and low income countries.  Current HTA processes provide little...

The goal of the workshop is to analyse and dissect the emerging notion of ‘epigenetic parental responsibility’. To this purpose, we will explore the potential reconfiguration of reproductive and parental practices operated by studies on epigenetic inheritance and developmental programming of health, by exploring the...

  Medicine and war have long been entwined, with massive social disruptions and new weapons engendering the spread of disease and producing unprecedented injury, in turn driving medical innovation and practice whose impacts last long beyond the conflict in which...

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in healthcare (I3h) organizes a workshop on the societal aspects of vaccines (4-6 November 2018) with the support of the Brocher Foundation. This workshop will be interdisciplinary in nature and will include discussions on several aspects of vaccine development...

The emergence of ‘gateway’ technologies, such as 3D printing, gene-editing and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and digital technologies, have wide application within biomedical research and healthcare and raise challenging issues for regulators and policy makers. ‘Gateway’ technologies are comparatively...

A three-days’ workshop focused on the emerging legal and ethical frameworks that could facilitate the collection and generation of large databanks of medical images obtained through donations or general consent of patients. The workshop will focus on current and future...

The infamous Mary Mallon, also known as ‘Typhoid Mary’, provides an early controversial case of asymptomatic infection. Despite infecting over 20 people (of whom 3 died) while working as a cook, she refused to believe that she was asymptomatically infected...

Contemporary global health is characterised by an attention to the complex social, cultural, political and ecological contexts of disease. Recent global health crises such as the Ebola epidemic have underlined the importance of social and cultural sensitivity for responding to...

The new subfield of Global Health History is becoming popular among historians of medicine and the term is used by scholars, officers of health organizations and policy makers. Some scholars consider it a perspective that emphasizes transnational circulation of people...

This workshop will bring together theorists and practitioners working on the questions of migration and health. I will invite academics working on the ethical, legal and normative questions of refuge and migration, and bring them together with  representatives of the...

Human embryo research is restricted in many countries to the 14th day of development, a stage prior to the formation of the primitive streak—an observable, early step towards the formation of neural tissue. In 2016, scientists published the first reports...

This workshiop will identify the most significant ethical issues in the field of mHealth and create a framework for addressing these issues through a consensus process. In this workshop, we will bring together experts to discuss the current state of ethics...