Refreshments will be served. Please register to attend. https://go.unc.edu/meslin-elsi   Sponsored by: UNC Center for Bioethics ELSI@UNC

We’re looking forward to welcoming Carolyn M. Mazure in March 2025 for the 47th Merrimon Lecture. Check back for more details. In the mean time, save the date! Save the Date: March 27, 2025 About the speaker Carolyn M. Mazure is the Norma Weinberg Spungen and Joan Lebson Bildner Professor in Women’s Health Research, and … Read more

We’ll share the Zoom link for the talk on October 17. By now society has become familiar with the promised benefits and potential pitfalls of the artificial intelligence revolution. Not since the early years of genetic engineering has a technology captured our imagination and fears so quickly.  But AI has done something else – it … Read more

6th in the Carolina Seminar Series, “SCIENCE MEETS SOCIETY AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN PRECISION MEDICINE AND JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION” Marginalized racial and ethnic communities have been the focus of increased attention by precision medicine researchers seeking to foster justice and promote health equity in clinical genomics. Low education level and socioeconomic status are factors … Read more

5th in the Carolina Seminar Series, “Science meets society at the intersection between precision medicine and justice, equity, and inclusion” Despite comprising about 27% of the US population, the disability community has remained largely absent from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in precision medicine and genomics research. Research suggests that individuals with disabilities are … Read more

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics Research, Mayo Clinic   Advancing understanding of the human virome (all viruses that live in and on us) is a national scientific priority. Commensal relationships with viruses prompt questions of what it means to be human and healthy, shifting with new understandings of our complex cohabitation with the most abundant … Read more

Registration required – https://go.unc.edu/sciencemeetssociety4 Lunch will be provided. Please place your order during registration. This seminar features three UNC faculty who will offer their perspectives on bias in medical algorithms. Dr. Gibson, a nephrologist, will discuss race corrections for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). Dr. Goralski, Pulmonary/Critical Care, will discuss bias in pulse oximeter and … Read more

The Science, Knowledge, and Technology (SKAT) Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) will host a virtual panel discussion highlighting science and technology studies (STS) approaches to trans health research on April 12, 2024, at 12 pm ET. Moderated by Hayden Fulton (University of South Florida) and featuring the research and perspectives of Christoph Hanssmann … Read more

David Livingstone Smith Professor of Philosophy University of New England Registration Required

NEW ROOM: 322 MacNider Hall