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The nature and complexity of public health emergencies, like the current COVID-19 outbreak, raise a number of distinctive and profound ethical challenges. Yet, despite the existence of a number of authoritative ethics guidance documents and important ethical lessons learned as...

A multidisciplinary approach to endometriosis among transgender and gender diverse community.     “TRANSforming endometriosis research” aims to re-centre TGD people in endometriosis research and give voice to patients’ stories regarding this chronic condition as an intersectional experience. One of the...

a)What objects and artefacts did doctors and researchers mobilize at different moments in time to give a  visible  and  tangible  reality  to  diseases  whose  clinical  presentation  was  complex,  multifaceted,  and  sometimes partially unexplained?   b)What relevant methods and approaches allow historians to create meaning from vestiges of diseases of  the  past?  What  scientific  problems  (i.e.,  ethical,  legal,  scientific)  does  the  reuse  of  previous  medical  samples raise today?   The Summer School will be a 5‐day working conference structured around intensive discussion and hands‐ on  research  activities.  It  will  bring  together ...

The concept of the ‘severity’ or ‘seriousness’ of a genetic condition (disease/disorder) is pivotal to determining current, and future, applications of genomic medicine, particularly those relating to reproduction. Yet this concept remains nebulous and poorly understood (Molster et al, 2017;...

Data privacy, data property, and data sharing: an interdisciplinary dialogue for post-pandemic transnational research: The collection and processing of human biological samples and related health data for the purpose of transnational biomedical research is instrumental to contrasting the spread of...

Data privacy, data property, and data sharing: an interdisciplinary dialogue for post-pandemic transnational research:   The collection and processing of human biological samples and related health data for the purpose of transnational biomedical research is instrumental to contrasting the spread...

The first edition of the Summer School in Global Health Law was held from June 26th to 30th, 2023 at the Fondation Brocher. The course reunited master’s and doctoral students as well as professionals from around the world – 26...

Le prochain Prix Brocher sera décerné le mercredi 28 juin 2023. Le parrain de la cérémonie sera le philosophe André Comte-Sponville qui donnera une conférence lors de la soirée.

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Thursday, July 06, 2023   09h00: welcome and introduction 09h05:  Clark Brietta, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University, Professor, Law Fuse Brown Erin, Georgia State University College of Law, Associate Professor, Law Gatter Robert, Saint Louis University School of Law,...

Monday, August 07, 2023   09h00: welcome and introduction   09h05: Auckland Cressida, Law School, London School of Economics and Politics, Assistant Professor, Law & Goold Imogen, University of Oxford, Professor, Law   Best Interests, Significant Harms and Assigning Responsibility:...

Wednesday, September 06, 2023   09h00: welcome and introduction   09h05: Yoo Kwon Yong, Chung-Ang University, Professor, Philosophy   Research for Constructive Reality of Health and Disease Concepts in the Comparative Studies on Eastern and the Western Medicine   09h25:...

Today, approximately 90% of the world’s cervical cancer deaths occur among women in lower-income countries. The US Preventive Services Task Force determined that Pap screening reduces cervical cancer rates by 60% to 90% within 3 years of implementation, and that these...

The workshop comprises an interdisciplinary conversation around new and developing clinical technologies to identify and intervene in frailty in older people. For the past twenty years, clinical medicine has attempted to identify, measure and intervene in the trajectory of frailty,...

  Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease of social inequity. Prior to COVID-19, it was the leading cause of death from an infection, endemic in many low- and middle-income countries facing weak systems of health and social protection, and grossly...

  We propose to hold a 2-day workshop on ethical oversight mechanisms and principles for health policy trials. Health policy trials are experiments undertaken to assess the consequences, both desirable and undesired, of innovations in health policies, or to compare...

  We propose to hold a 2-day workshop on ethical oversight mechanisms and principles for health policy trials. Health policy trials are experiments undertaken to assess the consequences, both desirable and undesired, of innovations in health policies, or to compare...

The term “disruptive innovation”, as coined by Clayton Christensen, describes an innovation that upsets a market by offering “cheaper, simpler, more convenient products or services, that start by meeting the needs of less demanding customers”. Several recent digital innovations in...

The number of individuals infected by COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) already surpassing SARS and MERS. As of February 22, according to worldometer, 78,635 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Among the infected individuals 2,459 died. Given the severity, the speed of...

The United Nations anticipate a growing need of humanitarian assistance to cope with pandemics, natural disasters or armed conflicts. In response, international organizations are increasingly adopting innovations in humanitarian action. These solutions include the use of digital technologies such as...