Events
ETHix SERIES
Amidst accelerating technological change, rising societal division and a global pandemic, ethical issues are prominently and hotly debated in the public sphere. Through the ETHix SERIES, the Health Ethics and Policy lab aims to regularly bring some of the leading thinkers in Bioethics, Health Policy and Digital Ethics to a wider audience. Events have included timely discussions of the datafication of children or ethical issues around vaccine mandates for healthcare workers. Events are held online and are open to the public.
Past events in this series
Watch recordings of past sessions via our external page YouTube channel
Marco Annoni
Realigning the ethical debate on substitute judgement and AI Preference Predictors in healthcare
10 February 2025
Arvid Gollwitzer
Decoding the Human Microbiome through AI-controlled Metagenomics: Promises and Ethical implications
16 December 2024
Prof Melissa McCradden
AI's canary in the coal mine? The role of translational (silent) trials for accountable AI integration
06 November 2024
Prof Daniele Chiffi
Trust and Risk: The case of mHealth apps
21 October 2024
Francesco Veri and Prof. Simon Niemeyer
Deliberation and Human Genome Editing: The challenge of issue complexity
18 September 2024
Prof. Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
Developing a bioethics agenda for metaverse-enabled healthcare
25 April 2024
Prof. Jonathan Kimmelman
Do patients benefit in trials?
11 March 2024
Prof. Masha Shabani
Fairness in data-driven personalized medicine: the role of regulation
8 January 2024
Jan J. Zygmuntowski
Governing data as commons: Will european health data space help?
17 March 2023
Dr. Francis McKay
Digital citizenship and de-identified data ownership
27 February 2023
PD Dr. Jan-Christoph Heilinger
The ethics of AI ethics
14 November 2022
Prof. Dr. Jacob Stegenga
How to be a medical nihilist during a pandemic
1 April 2022
Michael Renaudin
Introducing Swissmedic 4.0: A regulator’s approach to digital innovation
1 February 2022
Dr Michelle Kelly-Irving
Inequality & Covid-19: The impact of socio-economic determinants on people's health
19 November 2021
Dr Rachel Gur-Arie
Ethical Aspects of Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Workers
11 October 2021
Prof. Veronica Barassi
Book Talk - Child Data Citizen: How tech companies are profiling us from before birth (MIT Press 2020)
19 May 2021