Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

09/12/2025

Big ideas, good convo, free pizza. 🍕🧠 Come through Sept. 24!

09/12/2025

Global and Policy Program Weekly Roundup - It's Not You, It's the Food, Food Safety System Cuts, Junk Food, Feeding Profit, Classroom Farms, Long Covid & Food Insecurity, AI Tools, + More

The Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International studies, addresses critical global issues of under- and over-nutrition and diet-related diseases, poverty, inequity ...

09/11/2025

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup - AI Copyright Settlement, Synthetic Data, Can AI Truly Be Humorous? Stop Making Up Citations, Legal Rights? AI Cheating Data, 'Clanker', Present and Future Accountability, Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent, + More

09/11/2025

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - Bioethics in the New World Order, Demanding RFK's Resignation, My Own AI Medical Team, New ACIP Members, Ignoring Gun Violence, mpox Emergency Ended, Students Caught in 'Diversity' Grant Cancellations, + More

09/11/2025

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup - Brain Pill, Brain on Art, Seeing Colors, AI Legal Rights? Humanoid Robots Are Everywhere, Blood Pressure Watch, Pig Kidney Transplantation & Trials, Gene Therapy Trial Death, CRISPR Horses, + More

09/10/2025

ICYMI - Watch Now: Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA, "Ethical, Legal, & Social Implications: Real-World Data Generation & Sharing in 21st Century Medicine" | Berman Institute Bioethics Seminar Series

Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications: Real-World Data Generation and Sharing in 21st Century Medicine and Beyond by Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup DHSc, MSc, M...

09/09/2025

Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Adolescent Psychedelic Research, Stigmatizing Language in AMA Discharge Notes, Community Engagement - AI Health Research in Africa, Participant Perspectives, Moral Calamity: Using Medicaid Data for Immigration Enforcement, + More

September 9, 2025 Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Authors: Khaleel Rajwani, Edward Jacobs, Lori Bruce et al., including Katherine Cheung The potential use of psychedelic-assisted therapy for...

09/08/2025

Community engagement for artificial intelligence health research in Africa [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] - Harriet Nankya, Debra Mathews, Kadija Ferryman, Odia Kane, Joseph Ali | Wellcome Open Research

Read the latest article version by Harriet Nankya, Debra Mathews, Kadija Ferryman, Odia Kane, Joseph Ali, at Wellcome Open Research.

09/08/2025

“It’s gotta be really hard to be a mom inside right now:” a qualitative analysis on the impacts of COVID-19 on perinatal support programs for people in prison - authors include our Carolyn Sufrin | Health & Justice

Prisons are well understood to be hotspots of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, little is known about the impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had on pregnant and postpartum people in prison. We conducted a secondary analysis of 63 semi-structured ...

09/08/2025

Seminar - TODAY, Noon - Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA, "Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications: Real-World Data Generation and Sharing in 21st Century Medicine and Beyond". Open to all, join in person, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health W1030.

This seminar will involve a lecture and discussion on current and ongoing policy and ethical, legal, and social implications in 21st Century Cures Act biomedical innovation, with a specific focus on the generation and use of real-world data (RWD) in medical product development and health research....

09/05/2025

Addressing Disparities in Pediatric Eye Care: Employing an Ethics Framework in a National Call to Action - Sept 11, 8a-12:30p. Attend in person, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Link for more info, full agenda, and free regristration. | Robert H Levi Symposium

Join us for the Berman Institute's Robert H. Levi Symposium.

09/05/2025

Putin, Xi, and Me: Bioethics in the New World Order - by Jonathan D. Moreno | Hastings Center - Bioethics Forum Essay

Bioethics has been a key beneficiary, even an exemplary product of the post-World War II international order, which is now undergoing an accelerated dissolution.