Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

04/10/2026

Global and Policy Program Weekly News Roundup | Can Food Be Medicine? Cuts, Reimagining Prison Food, Backsliding on Pesticides, Peeps, Dietary Transitions, Pandemic Hardships, + 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 ...

04/10/2026

OH jail miscarriage tied to neglect sparks bipartisan bill to track inmate pregnancies to improve care - Regarding the need for documentation, Carolyn Sufrin said, “Women who don’t count don’t get counted, and women who don’t get counted don’t count.”

While Ohio law requires correctional facilities to report detainee deaths, those same rules don’t apply to miscarriages and stillbirths.

04/09/2026

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Vegetative Patients, Mini Brains, Bumble Bee Dance, Bixonimania, Hallucinated Citations, Morally Relevant Features, Using Embedded Ethics, Transformative Tech, Speed Bumps, Reversing Cellular Aging, + Much More

04/09/2026

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Forced to Forget? Regulating Digital Humans, Lying-Cheating-Stealing, Teens & Chatbots, Ask about AI Use, In the Courts, Rolling the Dice, Misled by English-Language Sources, What History Can Teach Us, + Much More

04/08/2026

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - Guiding Principles for Human Data Sharing & Use, PHI, Hallucinated Citations, Cash for Spotting Errors Doesn't Work, Medical Supply Shortages, Digital Twins, Failing Replication, Experiences with Early-Onset Cancer, + More

04/07/2026

Webinar: AI and Ethics in Research on HIV - Panelists include our Farirai Mutenherwa, PhD, "Predicting HIV Risk with Machine Learning in Sub-Saharan Africa" - April 16, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM. Link for free registration to join via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_58xhPlk9TVSmtAiEXImN2A #/registration

04/07/2026

in the Academic Lit - This Week - Exploring the Patient's Lifeworld, Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models, Dual Use Research Journal Review, Reproductive Donation, Equitable Intelligence for Africa, Evolving Paradigms, Threats to Humanity, + More

April 7, 2026 Exploring the Patient’s Lifeworld: A Qualitative Study of Personalizing Language in Electronic Health Records, Journal of General Internal Medicine Authors: Akanksha Suresh, Priyanka Fernandes, Ayah Zirikly et al., including Mary Catherine Beach Physicians’ understanding of pati...

04/07/2026

New! | Guiding Principles for Human Data Sharing and Use: Balancing Public & Scientific Values. A preliminary charge for institutions & investigators to effectuate responsible data sharing and outline what communities should expect when data sharing is managed responsibly.

This project brought together human subject research professionals and those involved in responsible data management from leading research universities with bioethics scholars, Indigenous scholars, and community members of IRBs to develop a set of principles and an implementation framework to justif...

04/06/2026

Seminar: Douglas J. Opel, MD, MPH, "What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Shared Decision-Making?" - Monday, April 13, Noon ET - Open to all, lunch provided, attend in person - Feinstone Hall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Link for more info:

Consensus surrounding the concept of shared decision-making and how to practice it remains elusive, particularly in pediatrics. In this talk, Dr. Opel will explore points of divergence and propose a path forward.

04/06/2026

Webinar: A Conversation on Bioethical Responsibilities in 21st Century Crises. Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 - 8:15 PM EDT. Panelists include our Travis Rieder. Link for free registration to join via Zoom. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2D15JcZRRmzGJFue_DUFA #/registration

04/03/2026

Global and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Community Wealth Through Food, Drinking Raw Milk is Risky, Peptides, Food Deal, Shattering Global Food Security, Meat Dogma, AI 'Revolution', Farming All Wrong, + 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 ...

04/02/2026

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Plowing Ahead with State Regulation, Chatbot Playmates, Sycophantic AI Makes You Less Kind, Something Resembling a Conscience, AI in War, Dangerous Territory, Agents of Chaos, Illusion of Visual Understanding, + More