Author Archives: Brandy Elsenrath

Fights over Tylenol, SSRIs highlight the enduring lack of pregnant women in drug trials. – Anne Lyerly (STAT+) Note: the article is behind a paywall. How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research. – Jill Fisher (The New York Times) How do drug trials really work? I got dengue fever to...

WHO issued a Call to Action and Consensus Statement to prioritize pregnant and lactating women in TB research to urge the global health community to end the routine exclusion of pregnant and lactating women from TB research.  Dr. Lyerly was a member of the WHO working group that contributed to...

The recording of Sorting Out Capacity, Competency, and Surrogate Decision-Making: The Fine Line Between Law and Ethics is now available.

The recording of the Annual Pediatric Visiting Ethics Scholar Communication and Decision Making – What Happens When AI Gets Involved? is now available.

After graduating with my PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology, I searched for opportunities to better understand the intersections of science with society. The perfect position arose as a joint postdoc between three incredible UNC programs: the Center for Bioethics, the Program in Precision Medicine and Healthcare, and the ELSI@UNC...

The PREPARE (PRomoting Equity for Pregnant Adolescents in REsearch) project has seen exciting activity recently, with its team sharing work through several posters and presentations. We showcased three posters at the International Workshop on Pediatrics & HIV, followed by both a poster and an oral presentation at the International AIDS...

UNC OB/GYN Launches Rural Fellowship to Combat Maternity Care Deserts. Dr. Kavita Arora, MD, MBE, MS, director of the Division of General Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Midwifery, will serve as the inaugural fellowship director.

The presentation was part of MCL Grand Rounds, hosted by the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, on June 3. ▶️ Watch the recording of “Challenging Allergies.”

Jill Fisher was awarded a Spring 2025 Making a Difference Grant from The Greenwall Foundation for her project “Challenging Fear of Anaphylaxis: An Ethical Framework for Implementing Oral Food Challenges in Allergy Clinical Practice.” Fisher said, “There is a real-world need for practical solutions to bioethics dilemmas in pediatric food...

Rebecca Walker’s new book, Of Mice and Primates: Virtue Ethics and Animal Research, is out now from Oxford University Press. The ethics of research on animals has historically been viewed through the lens of welfare, and whether animals have rights. Is the pain and distress experienced by animals worth the...