The 2016 UNC Merrimon Lecture on “Striking the Balance: Patient Care, Activism, and Public Service in the Health Professions” was delivered on Sep 20 by Nicole Lurie, MD, and the 2016 UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture was given Gopal Sreenivasan. Both Lectureships are co-sponsored and managed by the Center for Bioethics to bring national leaders in health policy, bioethics, and human rights to the UNC campus.