Ethics Grand Rounds | Care, Coercion, and Responsibility: Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Care Ethics Grand Rounds | Care, Coercion, and Responsibility: Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Care took place on April 12, 2026 online.

Here's the link to the recording: www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/ethics-...

New York has enacted the Medical Aid in Dying Act.
What does this mean for clinicians and care?

David Hoffman, JD (Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Columbia University), and Division faculty member Meg B. Menzel, MS, CGC, HEC-C, break it down.
Read more: www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/medical...

We are sharing an event co-hosted by our friend, The Trust Collaboratory.

A one day symposium featuring sociologists, anthropologists, historians, patient advocates, clinicians and scientists discussing the societal implications of Long Covid.

Learn more: longcov.id/society

Grounded in his experience leading New York City’s health system, Dr. Ashwin Vasan will share how these decisions are made, from infrastructure and coordination to community-based support, and from consideration of both the individual and societal impact of untreated serious mental illness.

In New York City, there is an expansion of involuntary hospitalization, assisted outpatient treatment, and intensive outreach to individuals with serious mental illness and homelessness.

How to balance care, safety, and dignity in moments of crisis?

Join us: www.addevent.com/event/z6l568...

April Ethics Grand Rounds [Online] Join us on April 21st, 2026 at 4pm ET, for a conversation about involuntary hospitalization and community-based mental health care, featuring Ashwin Vasan, ScM, MD, PhD in conversation with Department...

Attend online: www.addevent.com/event/90k3j0...

Ashwin Vasan PhD, MD is a Senior Fellow in Health Policy and Global Affairs, Yale University; Operating Partner, Commonweal Ventures; and 44th New York City Health Commissioner.

The session will situate these challenges within the broader realities of public mental health, emphasizing the need to balance care, safety, and dignity while rebuilding trust and investing in systems that can deliver consistent, human-centered support at scale.

Ethics Grand Rounds: Care, Coercion, and Responsibility: Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Care

@ashvasnyc.bsky.social will explore how clinicians and public systems navigate complex decisions around capacity, risk, and involuntary care.

🔗https://www.addevent.com/event/z6l568jqjkw0

Navigating AI in Health Care: Guidance and Scholarship from the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Community

New from @greenwallfdn.bsky.social
: "Navigating AI in Health Care: Guidance and Scholarship from the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Community"

We're glad to share the resource from the Greenwall Faculty Scholars community.

greenwall.org/news/navigat...

Event in our circle -

In this Distinguished Speaker Seminar from the HICCC, Melissa Davis will speak on the "The Grand Challenge of Breast Cancer Inequities from the Darc-side of Disparities."

Mar 11 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Link: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

They argue that, rather than a centralized surveillance system, it was in fact a patchwork of various sociotechnical components - and immense amount of labor associated with performing political accountability, especially on the local, street level.

New Pub!
Our Postdoc @elise901.bsky.social and colleague investigated the Health Code Systems in China during COVID - how various actors were actively involved in the shaping and functioning of a large sociotechnical system.
Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An ELSI-related event hosted by @geneticssociety.bsky.social

Authors Jessica Gold and Theodore Drivas will present their recent @ajhgnews.bsky.social paper, "Racial and socioeconomic disparities in genetic evaluation and testing in the adult patient population."

elsihub.org/event/explor...

Ethics Grand Rounds: Perinatal ethical challenges in the post-Dobbs landscape

Speaker Alaina Pyle, MD will describe the nexus of obstetrics, neonatology and perinatal palliative care, and the potential impacts of limited abortion access on families.

🔗https://www.addevent.com/event/rf9pg2cqfp50

Read the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On March 17, 2026, 1-2 PM ET. Dr. Pyle will join our Ethics Grand Rounds for a discussion around the perinatal ethical challenges in the post-Dobbs landscape. Join us!

Register: www.addevent.com/event/rf9pg2...

Restrictive abortion laws have a cascading effects on clinical and ethical aspects of neonatal care, as well as perinatal palliative care.

In a recent paper, Dr. Alaina Pyle et al. highlight difficult ethical dilemmas which clinicians may increasingly need to navigate.

Dr. Jallicia Jolly founded her Lab BREHA Collective to advance reproductive justice - connecting research to tailored community interventions that advance equity, systemic change & community-building.

She will join #ELSIFridayForum on reproductive genomics.

🔗 www.addevent.com/event/nsczf1...

If you wish to attend in person, sign up: www.addevent.com/event/dmtmt3...

📍Vagelos Education Center 903, CUIMC

Ethics Grand Rounds: Perinatal ethical challenges in the post-Dobbs landscape

Speaker Alaina Pyle, MD will describe the nexus of obstetrics, neonatology and perinatal palliative care, and the potential impacts of limited abortion access on families.

🔗https://www.addevent.com/event/rf9pg2cqfp50

If you missed the event, access here for the recording:

🎦www.mhe.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/ethics-grand-rounds...

He argues that school vaccination laws remain one of the most effective tools for maintaining herd immunity, yet they raise enduring ethical questions and competing values around autonomy, consent, public good, and justice.

In this talk, James Colgrove examines the ethical, legal, and historical foundations of school vaccination requirements in the United States.

The debates are not purely scientific, but also moral and political.

On February 17, we hosted Ethics Grand Rounds with James Colgrove, PhD, MPH, professor at @cupublichealth.bsky.social

School vaccination programs - the current controversies are rooted in a longer history of resistance framed around liberty and parental rights.

Imputing Parental Genotypes Through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations - Behavior Genetics Mendelian imputation is a promising method for imputing missing parental genotypes and estimating direct and indirect genetic effects. While the method has clear scientific benefits, so far there has ...

The authors discuss the legal and ethical considerations and provide recommendations on transparent use of this method.

Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mendelian imputation means imputing missing parental genotypes and estimating direct and indirect genetic effects. While being an effective scientific method, imputed genotypes should be considered identifiable, personal data, and that using these data requires informed consent.

New publication from our affiliate faculty members, Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum and Dr. Lucas J. Matthews

"Imputing Parental Genotypes Through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations"

We are happy to welcome Juana Becerra, MA who is joining us as a Research Associate in the Division of Ethics.
Juana will support our work in AI ethics research and programming, including the AI Oversight and Governance Working Group.
Q&A with Juana: consortium.umn.edu/event/resear...

NHGRI's funding Program: Building Partnerships and Broadening Perspectives to Advance Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research (BBAER) is soliciting applications from underrepresented organizations.
Learn more: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...