Housing, Equity & Older Adults; Protecting Drug Research Volunteers; Environment & Human Health
September 29, 2022
Advancing Housing and Equity for Older Adults
Register for October 6 Event
Join us for a live webcast on the findings of a new report on advancing housing and health equity for older adults. The report, a collaboration between the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and The Hastings Center, examines how responses to the Covid pandemic, intended to be temporary, might improve housing and supports for older adults and address longstanding equities. Learn more and register.
Improving Protections for Healthy Participants in Drug Trials Five Ethical Criteria Detailed in Ethics & Human Research
Traditional biomedical research oversight offers inadequate ethical and policy guidance for phase I healthy volunteer trials, which test the safety and tolerability of investigational medications and enroll a disproportionate number of economically disadvantaged people of color. An article in Ethics & Human Research details five ethical criteria crafted to be responsive to the particularities of this type of research: translational science value, fair opportunity and burden sharing, fair compensation for service, experiential welfare, and enhanced voice and recourse. Read the article.
Unpacking Environment, Ethics & Human Health Bioethics Briefings Primer Frames Issue
Many of the most challenging ethical questions of our time address interactions between human health and the environment. Relationships between human health and the environment often involve competing values and interests and therefore raise many ethical, social, and political issues. A Bioethics Briefings primer unpacks those issues. Read “Environment, Ethics, & Human Health.”
Upcoming Events
"What Do Physicians Want from Leadership?" with Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger. October 5.
"How I Became Disabled" with Hastings Center senior advisor and fellow Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. October .6
"Housing & Health Equity for Older Adults: Findings from the Covid-19 RECAPP Report, with Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger. October. 6.
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