October 24, 2019

Hastings Center Honors Ruth Faden for Lifetime Achievement

Ruth Faden, the founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, was named the recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2019 Henry Knowles Beecher Award for lifetime achievement in bioethics. Faden’s research focuses on structural injustice theory and on national and global challenges in food and agriculture, learning health care systems, women’s health, the rights and interests of pregnant women, health systems design and priority setting, and advances in science and technology. Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon presented the award today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Read more.

How Can Apps Improve Clinical Trials and Safeguard Participants?

The Hastings Center's inaugural David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society was presented today to the authors of “Recruitment and Trial-Finding Apps: Time for Rules of the Road.” The essay, by Stephanie R. Morain and Emily A. Largent, explores the development of mobile apps intended to reduce the shortage of people who volunteer for clinical trials. “While recruitment and trial-finding apps respond to a real need, they also raise ethical concerns,” wrote Morain and Largent. The award is named in honor of a past chair of The Hastings Center’s board and the current head of the advisory council. Roscoe presented the award at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Read more. Read the essay for free.

In the Media: The Promise and Peril of Social Genomics

Researchers are finding links between people's genes and complex traits such as socioeconomic status and time spent in school. The worry is that the results will be misconstrued, an article in Nature reports. It cites a new Hastings Center project that is examining the field and will advise researchers and stakeholders on how to conduct and talk about the work. The project is headed by senior research scholar Erik Parens. Read the article.

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