Hastings Center Launches Discussion Series for Journalists First Event: "Genomics, Behavior, and Social Outcomes"
The Hastings Center is launching an annual “bioethics for journalists” discussion series to help prepare journalists to more deeply investigate questions about the ethical implications of emerging issues in health and science. The first event, which will take place online on October 12, is “Genomics, Human Behavior, and Social Outcomes.” The moderator is Amy Harmon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times; panelists include Erik Parens, a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, and Melinda Mills, a genetic scientist at the University of Oxford. This year’s events are presented in partnership with the Center for ELSI Resources & Analysis (CERA). Registration is open to journalists, journalism students, and journalism educators, but anyone can watch a recording of the event that will be posted on The Hastings Center’s website. The annual series is supported by The Hastings Center’s Callahan Public Programs fund, established by The Andrew and Julie Klingenstein Family Foundation and the John and Patricia Klingenstein Fund in honor of Hastings co-founder Daniel Callahan. Learn more.
In the Media: Five Changes to Improve the U.S. Health Care System
Hastings Center senior advisor Faith Fletcher outlined five lessons from the pandemic on how to improve the U.S. health care system, in an interview with Medium’s Authority magazine: Strengthen the public health infrastructure, address the social determinants of health, confront racism in health care, acknowledge and address the public’s concerns, and engage trusted community leaders. Read the Authority interview.
From Hastings Biothics Forum: Nursing Crisis; New Kind of Circus
“The public must acknowledge the grave risk that current working conditions and public response to the pandemic impose on the sustainability of the nursing profession and the quality of care that patients receive,” write Eileen K. Fry-Bowers and Cynda Hylton Rushton. Read “Who Will Be There to Care if There Are No More Nurses?”
"Binocularity: A Tool for Comprehending Persons in Depth," a presentation by Hastings Center senior research scholar Erik Parens, University of Alberta. October 7.
"Vulnerability of Immigrant Patients," a presentation by Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger, University of Arkansas. October 7.
"Doing Bioethics in Public: Learnings from Hastings Center Initiatives," a presentation by Hastings Center scholars Nancy Berlinger and Erik Parens, and Rice Family Fellow LizBowen in a preconference session at ASBH. October 12.
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