Author Archives: Brandy Elsenrath

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...

The recorded session of Book Talk: The Occasional Human Sacrifice is now available for viewing.

Bioethics from the Global South Bioethics from the Global South was published in mid-January 2025 by Springer. The editors, Lillian Omutoko and Walter Jaoko, are graduates of the Advancing Research Ethics in Southern Africa (ARESA) program, an NIH-funded master’s program collaboratively run by the Division of Medical Ethics and Law at...

In a recent episode of the Children’s Mercy Bioethics Center Pediatric Ethics Podcast, Tyler Clay, who previously served as co-leader of CEDG, shared insights from his new publication, “A Narrative Approach to Assent in Pediatrics,” which was featured in the Journal of Pediatric Ethics. Dr. Ian D. Wolfe facilitated the...

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 Jan. 16 – Feb. 16. We welcome submissions from all disciplines and methodologies that reflect the wide spectrum of ELSI research, including...

Stuart Rennie, PhD, is a professor in social medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine Center of Bioethics. His current work focuses on research ethics, public health ethics, and medical ethics, particularly in the context of the developing world.   Stuart Rennie, PhD, is a professor in...

The PREPARE (PRomoting Equity for Pregnant Adolescents in REsearch) research team participated in AIDS 2024, the 25th Annual AIDS Conference sponsored by the International AIDS Society in Munich, Germany.  A day prior to the conference the PREPARE team convened the first meeting of the PREPARE Working Group for a half-day workshop. Members...