Resources: Affiliate Scholarship
A Wake-Up Call in Our Upside-Down World: Three Starting-Points for Advancing Health Rights and Social Justice in a Post-Pandemic Future
What the world and our health systems and societies look like in the future depends on the meaning(s) we take from this pandemic, and in turn how we collectively…
Confronting State Medicaid Drug Spending Pressures
Across the country, state Medicaid budgets are under increasing strain, driven by factors including the high and increasing prices of prescription drugs. Nearly 30% of state spending supports Medicaid programs,1 and…
Gene Editing Sperm and Eggs (not Embryos): Does it Make a Legal or Ethical Difference?
Heritable, human genome editing constitutes one of the most contentious issues facing science policy. This was starkly illustrated by Dr. He’s unsafe, unethical, and irresponsible editing of twin…
ELSI Implications of Prioritizing Biological Therapies in Times of COVID-19
In their recent paper, Bladt et al. focus on the delicate question of whether the four principles of biomedical ethics identified by Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress are…
Drug Shortages and the Defense Production Act
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, US hospitals have faced shortages of critical drugs, including sedatives and neuromuscular blocking agents needed to intubate patients and maintain ventilatory support, opioids for pain control…
Hay Alternativa: Agendas transformadoras: [There is an Alternative: Transformative Agendas]
¿De qué manera la Covid-19 y las medidas estatales para combatirla afectan los derechos humanos? ¿Cuáles son los grupos más golpeados por la…
Vivir, enfermar y morir en el Sur de Buenos Aires
En esta edición, la revista se enfoca en el bienestar humano y su íntima vinculación con un planeta sano. La conversión y fragmentaci…
Administration Finalizes Drug Importation Plans, But Legal And Practical Questions Remain
Yesterday, the Trump Administration released a final rule aiming to permit states or other specific actors to establish programs to import prescription drugs from Canada. If it is not blocked…
Opinion: Why the SDGs’ defining decade must focus on accountability for those left behind
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world had achieved remarkable progress in improving health outcomes for women, children, and adolescents. Reducing under-5 and maternal mortality, improving sexual and reproductive health…
Developing a Legal Framework for Regulating Emotion AI
Of all the pressing issues facing the world in the summer of 2020, it might not appear as if establishing a code of ethics for the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence …
Assisted Same-Sex Reproduction: The Promise of Haploid Stem Cells?
Same-sex couples, not unlike their heterosexual counterparts, would prefer having a genetically related child. However, assisted same-sex human reproduction has heretofore been deemed infeasible absent haploid cellular analogs of human…
Human rights parables for a post-pandemic world
Before the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the structural inequalities across societies, there were diverging parables in human rights. One narrative identified the populist challenge to human rights and juxtaposed it…
Challenging Patents To Promote Timely Generic Drug Entry: The Second Look Act And Other Options
Tackling prescription drug costs remains a top priority for voters. Drug spending in the US is driven both by increasing overall prescription volumes and by high prices for brand-name drugs,…
Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Action
Complete contributor list: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Committee on Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic…
Consent to Trainee Involvement in Pediatric Care
I’m the mother of a chronically ill child whose care has always included trainees. I’ve recounted my daughter’s medical history to residents the day…
Self-experimentation, ethics, and regulation of vaccines
Complete author list: Christi J. Guerrini, Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Ethics of Technology and Biomedical Innovation), Michelle N. Meyer (Former Academic…
June Medical Services v Russo—the Future of Abortion Access in the US
On June 29, 2020, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision on June Medical Services v Russo, its first abortion case since President Donald Trump appointed 2 new conservative justices—leading…
Understanding The FDA’s Controversial Convalescent Plasma Authorization
On Sunday, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) expanding the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19. The manner in…
The Use and Abuse of the Trolley Problem: Self-Driving Cars, Medical Treatments, and the Distribution of Harm
Represents state-of-the-art thinking in this fast-growing field. Highlights central themes of Artificial Intelligence and morality such as how to build ethics into AI, how to address mass unemployment due to…
Reimagining the Administrative State in Times of Global Health Crisis: An Anatomy of Taiwan’s Regulatory Actions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Taiwan is standing in the midst of the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. At the time of this writing, in Taiwan, 267 people (227 imported and 40 indigenous cases) are infected with this…