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

The PREPARE study team had the exciting opportunity to showcase their work at the 2nd African Workshop on Women and HIV, in Nairobi, Kenya. The team presented two research posters that highlighted key study findings. The first poster focused on the team’s innovative approach of engaging Youth Advisory Boards to...

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...

Mara Buchbinder is lead author, and Kavita Arora is second author, of a new co-authored article in Social Science & Medicine.

Co-led by UNC School of Medicine’s David Y. Hwang, MD, newly released updated guidelines from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) reveal how family centered care for adult ICUs is paramount and an invaluable approach.

Dr. Kavita Arora is quoted in “Why are young women opting to be sterilized?” from Deseret News.

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...

Kavita Arora was one of four Carolina recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Mara Buchbinder has been named chair of the department of social medicine. Dr. Buchbinder will assume the role on February 1.

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.