A Special Edition of Radio In Vivo, featuring “Unraveling Zika,” a panel discussion held November 29, 2016 at the UNC School of Medicine. Learn what we know and don’t know at this point about the Zika virus. The panel was moderated by Dr. Claire Farel, with discussants Dr. Helen Lazear, Dr. Elizabeth Stringer, and Dr. … Continued

C:B core faculty, Jill Fisher, is quoted in Inverse article, How To Side Hustle as a Lab Rat for Science.  Jill’s HealthyVOICES research project focuses on healthy volunteers in clinical trials. Inverse contacted her to comment on the motivations of healthy volunteers.

C:B core faculty, Mara Buchbinder, is attending the 2017 Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Conference in New Orleans. Mara is participating as a discussant in two presentations: Psychological Anthropology and Clinical Ethics in Theory and Practice, and Bureaucracy, the Individual, and the Conditions of Possibility.

Prince AER, Cadigan RJ, Henderson GE, Evans JP, Adams M, Coker-Schwimmer E, Penn DC, Van Riper M, Corbie-Smith G, Jonas DE. 2017 February 20. Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine. Read more

A better understanding of acute HIV infection is essential to public health, impacting both HIV transmission and potential advances in HIV cure clinical research. Acute HIV infection refers to the earliest stages of HIV infection, the short window of time right after a person becomes infected when they are most infectious. Individuals diagnosed and treated … Continued

Conundrums in Clinical Ethics Consultation Consciousness, Capacity, and Compulsion Full conference program is now out! CENNC 2017 Conference on our calendar

Francophone African countries are among the most resource-constrained in the world. Citizens in these regions commonly struggle with a wide variety of health problems related to poverty, political conflict and social upheaval. Those involved in local efforts to improve health, in clinical medicine, biomedical research or public health initiatives, often find themselves in difficult situations … Continued

The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health has renewed funding for Strengthening Bioethics Capacity and Justice in Health. Co-principal investigators for this grant are Stuart Rennie of the UNC Center for Bioethics, and Frieda Behets of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The overall aim of the project is to enhance bioethics education, research … Continued

Vermont SAID The Vermont Study of Aid-in-Dying (Vermont SAID) investigates the implementation and cultural impact of Vermont’s “Patient Choice and Control at End of Life” Act (Act 39), enacted in May 2013. Due to the recent enactment of Act 39, and Vermont’s small size and the geographic proximity of key institutions, Vermont offers an unparalleled setting for … Continued

  Each year, hundreds of thousands of pregnant women in the US face significant medical illness during their pregnancies, and many more do so worldwide. Diabetes and hypertension complicate 40,000+ pregnancies; psychiatric illness complicates an estimated 500,000; cancer and autoimmune diseases are not uncommon. Yet we have surprisingly little data about how to safely and … Continued