The Not-So-Sacred Human Genome: What South Africans Think About Heritable Human Genome Editing
The participants overwhelmingly supported changing the human genome if this offers promise of a better life.
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Read more: The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned The Right to Participation in Global Health Governance: Lessons Learned
We argue that the human right to participation should extend to permanent seats and votes for civil society and affected communities on governance boards.
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Read more: Whose Global Health Security? Whose Global Health Security?
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how “Global Health Security” is triggered when new diseases reach, or threaten to reach, the global north.
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Read more: “Stick to the Science”? FDA, Ethics, and Pandemics “Stick to the Science”? FDA, Ethics, and Pandemics
This post reflects on the ethical implications of FDA’s use of its emergency powers, and suggests opportunities for greater accountability moving forward.
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Read more: From 9/11 to COVID-19: A Brief History of FDA Emergency Use Authorization From 9/11 to COVID-19: A Brief History of FDA Emergency Use Authorization
The history of EUA involves fundamental questions about the role of public officials, scientific expertise, and administrative norms in times of crisis.
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Read more: Expendable Lives and COVID-19 Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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Read more: One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV One of the Biggest Public Health Initiatives in History: PEPFAR and HIV
By Daniel Aaron In October, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted a conference of world-leading experts in HIV/AIDS to discuss one of the biggest public health successes in history: PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. PEPFAR was launched in 2003 in response to a burgeoning global epidemic of HIV. The program offered $2 billion annually,…
