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CENTER FOR POPULATION-LEVEL BIOETHICS
The Center for Population-Level Bioethics (CPLB) is dedicated to the study of macro-level bioethical dilemmas: those that arise outside the clinical encounter, at the level of the population, the state, the country, or the globe. Questions of interest range from the theoretical to the applied, for example how to conceptualize, measure and evaluate health inequalities or disease severity; how to prioritize resources between disease areas, rural and urban patients, and age cohorts or generations; the acceptability of paternalistic health promotion measures; and many others.
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Nir Eyal Named First Bergen Chair in Biomedical Ethics
19 April 2024The Rutgers Board of Governors appointed Nir Eyal, a bioethicist whose renowned work in population-level bioethics focuses on health inequalities, health promotion, and research ethics, as the first holder...
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Dr. Daniel Hausman, the 2023-2024 Baruch A. Brody Lecture award recipient
26 Feb 2024Dr. Hausman, attended the award presentation and lecture on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Dr. Hausman presented his lecture on "Preferences, Health and Healthcare." A recording of this lecture will be made available in the near future...
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Eyal and Lerner published a joint paper in “Journal of Medical Ethics”
29 Jan 2024CPLB post-doctoral associate Adam Lerner and CPLB Director Nir Eyal recently published “Future pandemics and the urge to ‘do something’” in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The paper intervenes in an ongoing debate about research with...
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Dr. Emma J. Curran joins CPLB as a Postdoctoral Associate
30 Oct 2023Dr. Curran received her PhD in Philosophy from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Earlier, gained her BSc Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics...
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VIDEO: The Ethical Imperative: Global Vaccine Equity
12 May 2021On May 12, 2021 the Center for Population-Level Bioethics and co-sponsors 1Day Sooner and the Institute for Health hosted experts for a discussion of vaccine availability around the world, and to launch an open letter to the World Health Organization asking it to put several vaccine measures up to a vote in its upcoming World Health Assembly. The letter was led by veterans of the response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
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