Review of Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State, by Seth A. Berkowitz
August 20, 2025
Tag: Doug MacKay
Displaying wastewater surveillance data: an ethics framework
June 26, 2025
ICYMI: Douglas MacKay @ The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments (NIH)
November 22, 2024
Douglas MacKay was part of the NIH Ethics Grand Rounds: The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments on November 20. MacKay presented with Dean Karlan (Northwestern University). Watch The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments
Was This Job Market Study Ethical?
July 31, 2024
New in The Hastings Center: Authors Douglas MacKay and Katherine W. Saylor
July 26, 2024
Bioethics Forum Essay “Was This Job Market Study Ethical?”, Douglas MacKay, PhD, and Katherine Saylor, PhD, address concerns on a recent job market study conducted on Twitter that raised ethical questions on the Hastings Bioethics Forum.
Challenging the Boundaries Between Treatment, Prevention, and Enhancement in Human Genome Editing
July 23, 2024
Ethical Criteria for Improved Human Subject Protections in Phase I Healthy Volunteer Trials
October 12, 2022
Doug MacKay Post-Tenure Research Leave
June 7, 2022
I was fortunate to have a post-tenure research leave during the spring 2022 semester. I used the time away from teaching and service to complete a few projects which had been slowed by the pandemic, including a paper with Ali Huber-Disla on the ethics of soda taxes and a paper...
Justice, Inequality, and Health
December 21, 2021
First published Tue Dec 23, 2008; substantive revision Mon Nov 1, 2021 Among American men, there is a 14.6 year difference in life expectancy between the top 1% and the bottom 1% of the income distribution (Chetty et al. 2016). Among American women, the corresponding difference is 10.1 years. In...
Paying for Fairness? Incentives and Fair Subject Selection
March 22, 2021