Author Archives: Brandy Elsenrath

On February 18, the UNC community came together for the 47th Merrimon Lecture, featuring distinguished speaker Robert Califf, MD, MACC. His talk, “Can We Balance Professionalism with the Extreme Financial Focus of U.S. Healthcare?”, encouraged attendees to reflect on the growing tension between clinical professionalism and the increasingly complex financial...

Abstracts are now being accepted for the 7th ELSI Congress, which will be held on June 22 – 24, 2026 in Chapel Hill, NC. The submission period is January 16 – February 16. For over three decades, the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research...

My name is Nanki Nagpaul, and I am a senior at the University of Rochester double-majoring in Bioethics and Psychology, and studying voice at the Eastman School of Music. Throughout my undergraduate years, I have become deeply interested in the intersection of public health, ethics, and health policy. This summer,...

The Hastings Center for Bioethics is pleased to announce the election of the 2025 Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of about 300 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. Jean Cadigan, PhD, is a professor...

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...