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.

Upcoming events

Join our next event on the 25th of April with Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas, USA).

In this talk, prof. Rahimzadeh will offer a primer on the metaverse, exploring its development, scope, and potential impact on healthcare. She will identify key areas distinguishing the Metaverse-Enabled Healthcare, including healthcare access, gamification of wellness, avatar rights, and policy governance, and stimulate discussion on the inherent ethical challenges, drawing on both normative and applied bioethics research.

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Past events in this series

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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