The UNC Department of Social Medicine was founded on and remains grounded in a commitment to foster social justice. We are dedicated to recognizing and engaging diverse perspectives in our research, teaching, and service missions, and to pursuing equitable solutions to systemic and structural injustice, especially in health, health care, and biomedical research.
Elizabeth Barnes is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Her research interests are divided between metaphysics, … Continued
Dr. Gooding is an adolescent medicine specialist in the Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine at Emory University School … Continued
The Program for Public Discourse will host a panel composed of religious leaders and thinkers from various faiths to discuss … Continued
Topic: Scientific, Ethical and Policy Dimensions of Suicide Prevention Speakers: Patrick Sullivan (UNC), Amy Johnson (UNC), Brent Kious (Utah), and Marie … Continued
January 19, 2023
UNC Chapel Hill’s Program for Public Discourse will begin 2023 with public discussions of affirmative action in university admissions and abortion – two divisive social issues, one now before the Supreme Court and the other a renewed battleground in state legislatures, including North Carolina’s.
January 19, 2023
If you missed the Health Policy & Bioethics Consortium, “Treating Healthy Clinical Trial Participants Fairly,” it is available on The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics YouTube channel. The consortium was moderated by Benjamin Silverman, MD, with discussants Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE, and Jill Fisher, PhD.
January 11, 2023
Mary Kaufmann and Kelsey Rich have been selected as the new student leaders for the School of Medicine’s Clinical Ethics Discussion Group This position also entails appointment to the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee. Outgoing leaders are Konan Beke and Celia Mizelle. Center for Bioethics faculty members Arlene Davis and Jean Cadigan are advisors to the student …
January 10, 2023
Mara Buchbinder, PhD, recently sat down with the GeriPal podcast for a discussion on two of the most controversial and hotly debated topics in bioethics: assisted dying and abortion. Dr. Buchbinder, along with Robert Brody, MD, and researcher Lori Freedman, PhD, discuss the contemporary ethical conversation and points of view for the two issues. The …
January 3, 2023
Congratulations to Annie Lyerly, who was just elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, a wonderful honor and recognition of her immense scholarly contributions to medical ethics, women’s health, and reproductive medicine.
