Past Events Archive
2021
It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way: Long COVID and An Alternative Model of Health in the US
- Zackary Berger, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many types of patient stories – later to be repeated thousand fold – were heard for the first time. Some were easier to understand: people tragically taken ill and eventually dying in the ICU…
The Impact of Stigma on Individuals with Substance Use Disorder & Mental Health Conditions: Perspectives from Community-engaged Action Research in MN
- Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, MAT, University of Minnesota
- Katharine Dooley, MPH Candidate, University of MInnesota
Learning Objectives: (1) Identify the ways that stigma serves as a barrier to accessing care for individuals with substance use and mental health conditions. (2) List the ways that the topic of stigma has emerged in evaluated community-…
Ethical Implications of Disparities Observed in COVID-19 for Scarce Resource Allocation
- JP Leider, PhD, University of Minnesota
- Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, PhD, University of Minnesota
COVID-19 continues to shine a light on the deep disparities present throughout the United States, in terms of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. This talk shows mortality data, as well as occupational case data, from Minnesota and…
Human Subjects Research Ethics: Lesson from the COVID-19 Frontlines
- Abbey Staugaitis, RN, MSN, CCRC, University of Minnesota
- Harvey M. Arbit, PharmD, MBA, Arbit Consulting
- Wrenda M. Teeple, PharmD, Regions Hospital
- Idolly F. Oliva, MBA, M Health Fairview
Abbey Staugaitis, RN, MSN, CCRC, Harvey M. Arbit, PharmD, MBA, Wrenda M. Teeple, PharmD, and Idolly F. Oliva, MBA | The Center for Bioethics and the Human Research Protection Program together offered this Zoom-based event where panelists…
Community Engaged Research for Innovation and for Equity? Implications of Taking Community Voice Seriously
- Michele Allen, MD, MS, University of Minnesota
Community Engaged Research (CER) has become a priority for funders to increase representation in clinical trials and address health disparities. CER contributes to health innovations by bringing the perspectives of end-users - those most…
Ethics, Research and Pregnancy: Guidance and Lessons from the PHASES Project
- Annie Lyerly, MD, MA, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Increasingly, conducting research with pregnant women has been recognized as ethically imperative – if enduringly complex. Numerous barriers to including pregnant women in biomedical research have resulted in profound & consequential…
2020
The Ethics of Underfunding: Changing the Narrative about Native American Health Care
- Mary Owen, MD, University of Minnesota
There is a general misconception that Native Americans receive free health care. This talk dispels that notion and gives a short history and current status of the Indian Health Care system. Dr. Owen discusses the results of chronic…
COVID-19: Nationalism & Exceptionalism Undermines Global Health
- Jerome Singh, BA, LLB, LLM, MHSc, PhD, University of Toronto
The COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious public health threat the world has faced in the last century. As rich and powerful countries dedicate significant resources to producing efficacious vaccines and treatments for their citizens,…
Dual Agency, Population Health and Professional Responsibility in Contemporary Healthcare Delivery
- Jon Tilburt, MD, Mayo Clinic
COVID-19 may overwhelm our healthcare system. But healthcare professionals aren’t just stretched during a pandemic. The way healthcare is structured means every day they are torn, advocating for individual patients while juggling competing…
Informed Consent: Navigating Best Practices
- Jill Cordes, M Health Fairview
- Debra DeBruin, PhD, University of Minnesota
- Elizabeth Duffy, MPH, CCRC, Gillette Children’s
- Amanda Galster, MPH, University of Minnesota
- Megan Hoffman, MA, University of Minnesota
- Courtney Jarboe, MS MA CIP, University of Minnesota
- Susanna Kennedy, University of Minnesota
- Abbey Staugaitis, RN, MSN, University of Minnesota
Research Ethics Week is an annual week-long series of college and department-led educational opportunities focused on professional development and best practices to promote, maintain, and model high standards of ethics and integrity in…