Events

HealthDARES: 27 - 29 January 2025

This three-day advanced course offers a critical overview and understanding of the ethical and regulatory challenges triggered by the use of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) in the health sector. The course will provide participants with the latest insights in current developments and equip them with the necessary competences, skills, tools, critical understanding and practical approaches to effectively address ethics and governance issues through their respective roles.

Organised by the Health Ethics & Policy Lab & the ETH AI Center.

To find out more about the course, please see here. (Note, applications are closed).


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

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

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