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Postponed – Women’s Health Research: Transforming Science, Advancing Clinical Care, Ensuring Momentum

June 24, 2024
It is with regret that we announce the cancellation of the Merrimon Lecture scheduled for March 27, 2025.  Our speaker is unable to come due to personal circumstances. We extend our sincere apologies knowing that many of us look forward to this event every year. We plan for the Merrimon...

Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Health Care: Ethical and Legal Challenges

June 7, 2023
I. Glenn Cohen Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics   Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called “medical ethics”) and...

Driving Down Infant and Child Mortality: Victories, Dilemmas, and Persistent Disparities

July 7, 2022
Perri Klass is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU Florence. She attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Boston. Her book, The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, is an account of...

Vaccination and Its Historical Discontents: The Long-Term View on Skepticism and ‘Personal Belief Exemptions’

June 21, 2022
Elena Conis, PhD, MS, MJ Associate Professor Graduate School of Journalism – Department of History – CSTMS University of California, Berkeley Interview with Elena Conis Elena Conis, Ph.D. is a writer and historian of medicine, public health, and the environment. Prior to joining the Graduate School of Journalism, she was...

Finding the ‘Greater Good’ in an Era of Polarization: What Vaccine Hesitancy Has Taught Us

January 22, 2022
Wednesday, September 14th, 12:00 – 1:30 pm Heidi J Larson, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Heidi J. Larson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the...

Conscience, stigma, and the tension of opposites in reproductive healthcare.

July 24, 2019
  Dr. Harris’ research examines issues at the intersection of clinical obstetrical and gynecological care and law, policy, politics, ethics, history, and sociology. She conducts interdisciplinary, mixed methods research on many issues along the reproductive justice continuum, including abortion, miscarriage, contraception, in vitro fertilization (IVF), infertility and birth, and racial,...

Race, Health Equity, and the Opioid Epidemic: A Panel Discussion

February 11, 2019
Helena Hansen, MD, PhD (New York University) Jennifer Carroll, PhD, MPH (Elon University) Jon Zibbell, PhD (RTI) Virgil Hayes (NC Harm Reduction Coalition)

The Politics of Pain: Medicine and the Gatekeepers of Relief in America’s Opioid Era

August 14, 2018
Keith Andrew Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University where he teaches in the Department of History and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is the Chair of the Department of History, and the former Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. He has produced award-winning research...

Pathways to Trust

May 1, 2017
Wylie Burke, MD, PhD is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington, Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Medical Genetics). Her work focuses on the ethical and policy implications of genetic information in research and health care. She co-directs the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research...

Striking the Balance

August 25, 2016
Striking the Balance: Patient Care, Activism, and Public Service in the Health Professions