Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review
28 Mar 2026 Issue 838
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#vaccines #immunization #globalhealth #bioethics #vaccineequity #zerodosechildren
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Euthanasia, or Mercy Killing - 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology There are people in very bad medical conditions who want to die. Can it be morally permissible to let them die? Advocates of “passive euthanasia” argue that it can be. Their reasons, however, suggest ...

Euthanasia, or Mercy Killing

#euthanasia #PAS #assistedsuicide #bioethics #autonomy #medicalethics

1000wordphilosophy.com/2019/03/05/e...

Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals by Matilda Carter.
Drawing on her professional experience, Matilda Carter offers a political analysis of the social position of people living with dementia.
📚 https://cup.org/3NJWFqp

#bioethics #medicallaw

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AI Toy Story: Potential Benefits and Risks of Chatbot Playmates   : The Hastings Center for Bioethics While chatbot toys can seem appealing, they raise safety and ethical concerns.

AI Toy Story: Potential Benefits and Risks of Chatbot Playmates - By Łukasz Kamieński | #Bioethics Forum Essay - Hastings Center for #Bioethics www.thehastingscenter.org/ai-toy-story...

ICYMI, watch now! Anna Wexler, PhD, "Ethical and Social Dimensions of Implanted Brain-Computer Interface Research" | Berman Institute #Bioethics Seminar Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ot5...

This moment from Dr. Elysée Nouvet comes from our first Webinar of 2026, which presented emerging findings from the qualitative study Meanings and Practices of Solidarity in and for Global Health.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2K... 

#Global #Health #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics

Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin

Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Increased Hospital Attacks, playing god? Educational Materials, Does Ethics Still Matter? CDC Turmoil, Epic Rot, Transfusion Policy, In the Long Middle, Manikins, Banning Fluoride, Reducing Animal Testing, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Are you a health sciences/health professions scholar/clinician and/or pre-health undergrad student, looking to hone your skills in 2SLGBTQIA+ health and care? This workshop is for you!

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What does solidarity actually look like in practice?

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"Encouraging open dialogue between educators and trainees about the moral implications of animal use and empowering trainees to question entrenched norms fosters a culture of transparency and ethical reflection. Incorporating feedback from both trainees and the public strengthens institutional accountability and helps ensure that training programs remain responsive to societal values." - Nirva K Patel JD 2026

New article by Nirva Patel of @bulaw.bsky.social examines how the Animal Welfare Act and state laws shape the use of animals in federally funded health professions training, and how policy can drive transparency and accountability.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Bioethics in the Academic Literature: March 24, 2026

#Bioethics in the Academic Lit - Roadmap for Addressing the Use of Race/Ethnicity in Clinical Algorithms, Fair & Accurate Detection, Embedded Physician Attitudes, Cultivating Authentic Partnership, Regulating Body Donation, Equitable AI in Health Care, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

Insights from Dr. Dingle Spence on the limits of medical metrics.

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Good one
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We are editing genes.
A parent is still on the phone, asking a cousin's colleague's brother-in-law to donate blood by Thursday.
This is not a failure of #medicine.
It is a failure of attention.
#meded #medsky #bioethics
Read and opine: open.substack.com/pub/vikkypae...

Ageism, Ableism, and Epistemic Injustice: tracing Absence and Construction in Bioethics and Public Health Ageism and ableism are intersecting forms of marginalization that shape whose knowledge counts, whose needs are prioritized, and how care is structured in public health and bioethics. While both ha...

Just re-upping this new target article I co-authored w/ the incredible @elangmann.bsky.social It integrates insights from 3 fields that generally aren't working together much: aging studies, disability studies, & #bioethics in context of #EpistemicJustice

Let us know if you'd like a PDF!

Does Bioethics Pay Sufficient Attention to Issues Related to Chronic Disease? A Survey of Articles Published in Top Bioethics Journals from 2001 to 2024 - HEC Forum HEC Forum - Since chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and health care expenditures in the US and other industrialized nations, it is important to understand whether...

As a bioethicist who focuses on chronic & noncommunicable disease, I am totally unsurprised to see that the answer to the ? below is "absolutely not."

I mean, the disease footprint in the US, where I live & work, is overwhelmingly chronic. #Bioethics #PaperSky #AcademicSky #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthx

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TODAY, Noon EDT - #Bioethics Seminar: Anna Wexler, PhD, "Ethical and Social Dimensions of Implanted Brain-Computer Interface Research". Open to all, attend in person, lunch provided. @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social W1030. Link for more info: mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...

One of the strongest themes to emerge from our first Webinar of 2026 was that solidarity cannot remain at the level of language alone.

Our latest news story reflects on what actually gives solidarity meaning in practice.

Read here:
www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/news/webinar...

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Vaccines and Global Health: The Week in Review
21 Mar 2026 Issue 837
centerforvaccineethicsandpolicy.net
#vaccines #immunization #globalhealth #bioethics #vaccineequity #zerodosechildren
Center for Vaccine Ethics & Policy –
GE2P2 Global Foundation [www.ge2p2.org]

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

Clinician and judicial disregard for informed consent

#bioethics

www.propublica.org/article/flor...

When was the last time a patient gave you a perfect history?
The Myth of the Prompt-Dependent Doctor
Read and Opine:
open.substack.com/pub/vikkypae... #ai #bioethics #meded

Ending provincial funding for supervised consumption sites is an ethical and policy failure. This decision disproportionately harms people who are already multiply disadvantaged by factors such as poverty, racism, trauma, and systemic neglect. 1/
#bioethics

In a World with Many Epsteins, Does Ethics Still Matter? : The Hastings Center for Bioethics Considering the epidemic of cruelty, corruption, lying, exploitation, abuse, and vulgarity in public life these days emanating from the highest levels of society, why should anyone care about ethics? ...

In a World with Many Epsteins, Does Ethics Still Matter? by Jonathan D. Moreno and Arthur Caplan | #Bioethics Forum Essay - The Hastings Center for Bioethics www.thehastingscenter.org/in-a-world-w...

It's such an honor to collaborate with Dr. Langmann, from whom I have already learned so much! #PaperSky #Bioethics #DisabilitySky

Ageism, Ableism, and Epistemic Injustice: tracing Absence and Construction in Bioethics and Public Health Ageism and ableism are intersecting forms of marginalization that shape whose knowledge counts, whose needs are prioritized, and how care is structured in public health and bioethics. While both ha...

I’m very happy to share that my article with @profgoldberg.bsky.social is now out in AJOB:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very grateful to Daniel for this great collaboration and excited to see this work out in the world.

#bioethics #publichealth #ageism #ableism #epistemicinjustice

Man Successfully Designs mRNA Vaccine To Treat His Dog's Cancer The happy saga of Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham and his dog Rosie is all over the internet. Conyngham's 8-year-old rescue dog, Rosie, was diagnosed with a fatal skin cancer. Instead of accepting Rosie's allegedly inevitable demise, Conyngham turned to artificial intelligence (both ChatGPT and Grok) to see if he could figure out how to create a personalized anti-cancer vaccine. Conyngham reached out to Martin Smith, the director of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, to genetically sequence the DNA from both Rosie and her tumor. They agreed, and Conyngham paid $3,000 for the sequences. (It's worth noting that San Diego–based Element Biosciences soon plans to offer whole genome sequencing for $100.) Then he used Google's DeepMind AlphaFold and ChatGPT to analyze the genetic information and to identify mutated proteins produced by the tumors. Next Conyngham used Grok to design an mRNA vaccine that boosts the production of tumor-associated antigens enabling Rosie's immune system to identify and destroy tumor cells. Once he had the vaccine recipe, he contacted Pall Thordarson, head of UNSW's RNA Institute, to see if the institute would synthesize the vaccine for him. They agreed. Amazing, right?! Now for the maddening part: "The red tape was actually harder than the vaccine creation, and I was trying to get an Australian ethics approval to run a drug trial on Rosie," Conyngham told _The Australian_. "It took me three months, putting two hours aside every single night just typing up this 100-page document." And even then he couldn't get permission for the researchers at UNSW to inject the bespoke vaccine. But why have bioethical bureaucrats involved at all? It's a personalized vaccine that would have absolutely no effects on any person or animal other than Rosie. Additionally, the patient is a dog. Surely Conyngham was sufficiently competent to provide whatever "informed consent" was needed for Rosie. Rachel Allavena, a canine immunotherapy professor at the University of Queensland, had experience obtaining bioethical approval for experimental immunotherapies, so she was able to cut through the paperwork, reported the _New York Post_. Conyngham and Rosie traveled to Brisbane, where the vaccine was injected in December. The good news is that the vaccine has shrunk Rosie's tumors, and she has become more of her old energetic self. "It raises the question, if we can do this for a dog, why aren't we rolling this out to all humans with cancer?" Smith told the _New York Post_. That's a really good question.

#Bureaucracy #Cancer #Vaccines #Australia #Bioethics #dogs #Genomics

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Man Successfully Designs mRNA Vaccine To Treat His Dog's Cancer The happy saga of Australian tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham and his dog Rosie is all over the internet. Conyngham's 8-year-old rescue dog, Rosie, was diagnosed with a fatal skin cancer. Instead of accepting Rosie's allegedly inevitable demise, Conyngham turned to artificial intelligence (both ChatGPT and Grok) to see if he could figure out how to create a personalized anti-cancer vaccine. Conyngham reached out to Martin Smith, the director of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, to genetically sequence the DNA from both Rosie and her tumor. They agreed, and Conyngham paid $3,000 for the sequences. (It's worth noting that San Diego–based Element Biosciences soon plans to offer whole genome sequencing for $100.) Then he used Google's DeepMind AlphaFold and ChatGPT to analyze the genetic information and to identify mutated proteins produced by the tumors. Next Conyngham used Grok to design an mRNA vaccine that boosts the production of tumor-associated antigens enabling Rosie's immune system to identify and destroy tumor cells. Once he had the vaccine recipe, he contacted Pall Thordarson, head of UNSW's RNA Institute, to see if the institute would synthesize the vaccine for him. They agreed. Amazing, right?! Now for the maddening part: "The red tape was actually harder than the vaccine creation, and I was trying to get an Australian ethics approval to run a drug trial on Rosie," Conyngham told _The Australian_. "It took me three months, putting two hours aside every single night just typing up this 100-page document." And even then he couldn't get permission for the researchers at UNSW to inject the bespoke vaccine. But why have bioethical bureaucrats involved at all? It's a personalized vaccine that would have absolutely no effects on any person or animal other than Rosie. Additionally, the patient is a dog. Surely Conyngham was sufficiently competent to provide whatever "informed consent" was needed for Rosie. Rachel Allavena, a canine immunotherapy professor at the University of Queensland, had experience obtaining bioethical approval for experimental immunotherapies, so she was able to cut through the paperwork, reported the _New York Post_. Conyngham and Rosie traveled to Brisbane, where the vaccine was injected in December. The good news is that the vaccine has shrunk Rosie's tumors, and she has become more of her old energetic self. "It raises the question, if we can do this for a dog, why aren't we rolling this out to all humans with cancer?" Smith told the _New York Post_. That's a really good question.

#Bureaucracy #Cancer #Vaccines #Australia #Bioethics #dogs #Genomics

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Man Successfully Designs mRNA Vaccine To Treat His Dog's Cancer "If we can do this for a dog, why aren't we rolling this out to all humans with cancer?" The happy saga of Australian...

#Bureaucracy #Cancer #Vaccines #Australia #Bioethics #dogs #Genomics

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