The third event in this year’s “Bioethics for Journalists” discussion series is “Precision Medicine, ‘All of Us’, and Inclusion,” taking place online on Tuesday, November 16. The moderator is Nidhi Subbaraman, a senior reporter for Nature; panelists are Carolyn Neuhaus, a Hastings Center research scholar; Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, a Hastings Center fellow who is chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Columbia University; and Katherine Blizinsky, policy director for the NIH’s ‘All of Us’ Research Program. This year’s events are presented in partnership with the Center for ELSI Resources & Analysis (CERA). The events 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 and register.

And watch the previous two events in the series: “Law Enforcement and Genetic Data” and “Genomics, Human Behavior, and Social Outcomes.”
 

In the United States, a fragmented market-driven health care infrastructure struggled to meet unprecedented local demand for intensive care during the Covid-19 pandemic, whereas the more centrally planned French health care system was able to transfer patients between regions to match ICU bed capacity to demand. Where the U.S. proved superior, however, was in creating a relatively effective distribution of vaccines to those who wanted them. These were among the findings of a recent paper co-authored by Hastings Center research scholar Michael K. Gusmano, Hastings Center fellow and board member Joseph J. Fins, of Weill Cornell Medical College, and Michael Nurok, of UCLA, that compared the ways in which the U.S. and France allocated scarce resources during the pandemic. Read the article.