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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

Reconsidering Scarce Drug Rationing: Implications for Clinical Research

March 15, 2021
Hospital systems commonly face the challenge of determining just ways to allocate scarce drugs during national shortages. There is no standardised approach of how this should be instituted, but principles of distributive justice are commonly used so that patients who are most likely to benefit from the drug receive it....

Doug MacKay Interviewed for UNC’s The Well

February 24, 2021
Doug MacKay was interviewed by Logan Ward for the February 23rd issue of UNC’s The Well on “The Pros and Cons of Universal Basic Income.” The idea of governments giving residents no-strings-attached cash payments is picking up steam, due in part to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Last...