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Nir Eyal Named First Bergen Chair in Biomedical Ethics
The 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 of the Dr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Bergen Jr. Chair..
April 19 2024
Eyal and Lerner published a joint paper in “Journal of Medical Ethics”
CPLB 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...
January 29 2024
Dr. Daniel Hausman, 2023-2024 Baruch A. Brody Lecture award recipient
Dr. Hausman attended the award presentation and lecture on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024...
February 26 2024
Dr. Emma J. Curran joins CPLB as a Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. 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.
October 30 2023
Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage (Seminar)
This seminar, presented by Rutgers Center for Population-Level Bioethics (CPLB) features Alex Voorhoeve, Professor and Head of Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (LSE); Elina M. Dale, Senior Adviser at
October 1 2023
Dr. Daniel Hausman receives the 2023-2024 Baruch A. Brody Lecture award
The Baruch A. Brody Lecture award is an international award and named lectureship in Baruch Brody’s memory. This award honors someone in the field who embodies the values and virtues that were central to Dr. Brody’s scholarly life and work...
October 1 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Budolfson
Mark Budolfson has accepted a tenure position at the University of Texas at Austin, as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Geography and the Environment and Dept. of Philosophy.
August 24 2023
CPLB welcomes visiting Research Fellow Joar R. Fystro
Joar Røkke Fystro is a doctoral research fellow at the Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Norway...
September 1 2023
Eyal, Steuwer, and Williams publish joint papers in “Bioethics”
CPLB Director Nir Eyal and former CPLB postdoc Bastian Steuwer recently published “Ethical and Legal Race-responsive Vaccine Allocation” in Bioethics, where Eyal and another former CPLB postdoc, Bridget Williams recently published a separate paper ...
August 10 2023
CPLB hosts a retreat on ethics in the fight against engineered pandemics
In June, the Center for Population-Level Bioethics held its first annual retreat. This year’s session was devoted to the ethics of deferring, detecting, and responding to engineered-virus pandemics...
August 9 2023
Mark Budolfson and colleagues write in Science on recent methodological tools to facilitate taking nonhuman animal welfare seriously in policy
A key obstacle to heeding the impact of our policies on nonhuman animals is the absence of a common scale for assessing the welfare of human and nonhuman animals alike.
July 7 2023
CPLB Fully Joins IFH
In an agreement signed in July 2023 by Dr. Brian L. Strom, Chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)...
July 7 2023
Dr. Frances M. Kamm has a new article, "Handling Future Pandemics: Harming, Not Aiding, and Liberty," in the book Future Pandemics: From Covid-19 to Disease X (Oxford University Press, 2023).
This chapter considers how moral duties not to harm and those to aid differ, the idea of morally innocent threats, and the role of self-defense in making one safe when not all are safe.
May 16 2023
Frances Kamm’s new article on the ethics of banning abortions
CPLB Advisory Board member Frances Kamm has a new article forthcoming in The Journal of Practical Ethics entitled “Abortion Bans and Cruelty”...
February 28 2023
Dan Hausman’s new book, How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair - Oxford University Press
Dan Hausman’s new book, How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair has just been published by Oxford University Press. Central to the book is whether cost-effective allocation of healthcare violates ethical constraints...
January 25 2023
Frances Kamm releases a new book, Rights and Their Limits
CPLB Advisory Board member Frances Kamm, released a new book Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics, published in October 2022 by Oxford University Press
October 1 2022
CPLB Dilemma #7: ethical reasons against COVID vaccine mandates
The seventh edition of CPLB Dilemmas is now online. This edition asks: are there ethical (as opposed to pragmatic) reasons not to mandate COVID vaccination?
October 15 2021
Mark Budolfson on redistributing emissions to maximize well-being
Redistributing Emissions to maximize well-being
September 22 2021
CPLB Dilemma #6: the ethics of "booster" COVID vaccine shots
The sixth edition of CPLB Dilemmas is now online. This edition asks: should rich countries give “booster” COVID vaccines to their own citizens, given that they can send these doses to countries where the majority is still unvaccinated?
September 10 2021
CPLB’s Nir Eyal and Dan Hausman in HHS OHRP workshop on bystander protection in research
CPLB Director Nir Eyal will moderate a virtual workshop on “Review of Third-Party Research Risks: Is There a Role for IRBs?”,
September 10 2021
Mark Budolfson awarded $1.5m NSF grant on climate change and equity
Mark Budolfson awarded $1.5m NSF grant on climate change and equity
September 10 2021
Nir Eyal publishes 3 papers with Chancellor Brian Strom, Tobias Gerhard and Kyungdo Lee
CPLB Director Nir Eyal publishes 3 separate papers on human challenge trials with RBHS Chancellor Brian Strom, Dr. Tobias Gerhard, and Dr. Kyungdo Lee
June 10 2021
Nir Eyal and Anders Herlitz on input and output in distributive theory
Nir Eyal and Anders Herlitz new publication within Nous
July 16 2021
CPLB in conversation with Israel’s corona response leadership and Israeli and WHO experts on ethical vaccination of the 12-15 age group
A CPLB seminar with senior members of the Advisory Committee for Epidemic Control at Israel’s Ministry of Health discussed the ethics and epidemiology of vaccinating young teenagers.
June 7 2021
Frances Kamm's new essay in The Philosophers' Magazine
Frances Kamm's essay entitled Harms, Wrongs, and Meaning in a Pandemic
June 29 2021
Mark Budolfson's new book on Philosophy and Climate Change
CPLB Assistant Professor Mark Budolfson has a new co-edited book out, by Oxford University Press. Entitled Philosophy and Climate Change.
June 29 2021
Michael Otsuka joins CPLB September, 2022
Dr. Michael Otsuka is currently a Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. From September 2022 onwards he will be a Professor in the Rutgers Philosophy Department and a member of the Center for Population–Level Bioethics (CPLB).
June 12 2021
CPLB Dilemma #5: avoiding deaths of newborns vs. deaths of young adults
The fifth edition of CPLB Dilemmas is now online. This edition asks, in deciding between funding different health programs with limited resources, what number of deaths of newborns is as intrinsically important to avoid as the deaths of 100 young adults?
June 8 2021
VIDEO: The Ethical Imperative: Global Vaccine Equity
Video: The Ethical Imperative: Global Vaccine Equity.
May 12 2021
Rosamund Rhodes gives talk on ethics and the microbiome
Dr. Rosamund Rhodes, Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will give a talk entitled Privacy, Property, and Other Ethical Issues Involving the Human Microbiome
May 10 2021
Bridget Williams joins CPLB as Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Bridget Williams will join CPLB as Postdoctoral Associate this Fall. Bridget received her medical degree from Monash University in Australia, and is completing specialty training in public health medicine.
May 7 2021
CPLB EVENT, May 12 2021: The Ethical Imperative: Global Vaccine Equity
On May 12, 2021, from 12 pm to 1:30 pm EST, CPLB will host The Ethical Imperative: Global Vaccine Equity, an event to discuss an open letter calling for the World Health Organization to put global vaccine equity initiatives to a vote this May.
April 30 2021
Mark Budolfson leads 29-author statement on the Repugnant Conclusion
CPLB’s Mark Budolfson and 28 co-authors have published a joint statement in the journal Utilitas, agreeing that avoiding the so-called “repugnant conclusion” should not be a central goal of research in population ethics
April 16 2021
CPLB Dilemma #4: the ethics of vaccine allocation by employers
The fourth edition of CPLB Dilemmas is now online. This edition discusses the ethics of vaccine allocation by employers, when employers are given vaccines to allocate.
April 15 2021
CPLB Dilemma #3: the ethics of immunity passports
The third edition of CPLB Dilemmas is now online. This edition discusses the ethics of immunity passports, documentation of immunity against COVID-19 that governments or businesses may require as a condition of access to spaces or services.
April 2 2021
Nir Eyal co-edits symposium on rationing by ordeal
CPLB Director Nir Eyal has coedited a symposium on the ethics of economic ordeals in the journal Economics & Philosophy, alongside Anders Herlitz of Sweden’s Institute for Future Studies
March 26 2021
Bastian Steuwer and Nir Eyal on “low-dosage” challenge trials
In a paper published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, CPLB members Nir Eyal and Bastian Steuwer, together with coauthor Zeb Jamrozik, propose a new challenge trial design for the continued testing of COVID-19 vaccines
March 4 2021
Nir Eyal and Marc Lipsitch on methods for further testing of COVID vaccines
In a paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases, CPLB director Nir Eyal and Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch demonstrate that it is possible and ethical to use both standard and innovative trial designs to continue testing existing and new COVID vaccines
March 3 2021
Frances Kamm’s new book on aging, dying, and death
CPLB Advisory Board member Frances Kamm has a new book out, by Oxford University Press
July 1 2020
CPLB Dilemma #2: the ethics of further COVID vaccine tests
The second edition of CPLB Dilemmas is now online. This edition discusses the ethics of continuing to test both existing and new COVID vaccines, now that some vaccines are being distributed in many countries.
February 22 2021
Frances Kamm on rights and duties during a pandemic
CPLB Advisory Board member Frances Kamm gave the keynote address at the Philosophical Bioethics Workshop at New York University
November 7 2020
Survey of 6 countries shows support for vaccine challenge trials
CPLB members Nir Eyal, Mark Budolfson and Monica Magalhaes, and CPLB associate Alex Guerrero, coauthored a study published in Vaccine finding broad support for accelerated designs for COVID-19 vaccine.
December 14 2020
CPLB Dilemmas: conversations on difficult population-level bioethics questions
The CPLB website has a new section devoted to interdisciplinary conversations on pressing normative questions of health policy and population health.
January 25 2021
CPLB members teach ethics of rationing during the COVID-19 pandemic
CPLB member Dan Hausman and CPLB Board of Advisors member Frances Kamm will be teaching a philosophy seminar on the theory and practice of rationing and its relation to COVID-19
January 15 2021
CPLB members on the ethics of COVID-19 vaccine testing
CPLB members Nir Eyal and Bastian Steuwer published an op-ed in Canada’s CBC, as the country debates whether to join the UK and fund challenge trials for future vaccine testing.
December 11 2020
CPLB director edits journal issue on research risks to bystanders
CPLB Director Nir Eyal has guest edited a special issue of the journal Bioethics on risks to bystanders in clinical research.
November 23 2020
Two papers by Nir Eyal on risks to research participants
CPLB director Nir Eyal has published two papers questioning the thought of some bioethicists
November 3 2020
VIDEO: The Global Burden of Disease and COVID-19: Epidemiological and Ethical Questions
VIDEO: The Global Burden of Disease and COVID-19: Epidemiological and Ethical Questions
November 3 2020
Bastian Steuwer joins CPLB as Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Bastian Steuwer has joined the Center for Population-Level Bioethics as Postdoctoral Associate ...
November 1 2020
RWJ Medical School and CPLB host Stahl Memorial Lecture by Dr. Tia Powell
On Tuesday November 10, at 4pm, Tia Powell, MD, will give the Annual Mates David and Hinna Stahl Memorial Lecture in Bioethics
October 22 2020
CPLB EVENT on 30th of October, 2020: The Global Burden of Disease and Covid-19: Epidemiological and Ethical Questions, with Dr. Christopher Murray
On October 30, 2020, at 11 am EST, CPLB will host The Global Burden of Disease and Covid-19
October 9 2020
Dan Brock: population-level bioethics loses a founding father
Dan Brock: population-level bioethics loses a founding father
September 26 2020
Monica Magalhaes and Nir Eyal on the risks and ethics of vaping
Program Manager Monica Magalhaes and CPLB Director Nir Eyal have new papers in Nicotine & Tobacco Research
September 11 2020
“Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions” (OUP) is published
Oxford University Press has released Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: Philosophical Dimensions.
June 2 2020
Nir Eyal consults India’s health leadership on Coronavirus vaccine testing and distribution
In the public consultation “Novel ideas in Science and Ethics of Vaccines against COVID-19 pandemic"
July 30 2020
A congressional briefing on human challenge trials for the Coronavirus vaccine interviews Nir Eyal
In a public briefing by challenge volunteer organization 1Day Sooner, Sophie Rose
July 28 2020
Nir Eyal and Marc Lipsitch on the ethics of comparing Coronavirus vaccines
In an opinion article in PNAS, CPLB Director Nir Eyal and co-author Marc Lipsitch (Harvard)
July 22 2020
Open letter supports human challenge trials for vaccines against COVID-19
CPLB Director Nir Eyal helped to pen an open letter signed by 15 Nobel Prize winners
July 16 2020
Robert Like retires from RWJ Medical School
Robert C. Like, M.D., M.S. has retired from his position as Professor and Director
July 1 2020
Nir Eyal and Perry Halkitis on human challenge trials for COVID-19
In the journal AIDS & Behavior, CPLB Director Nir Eyal and Rutgers School of Public Health Dean Perry Halkitis
June 26 2020
Press coverage of Nir Eyal’s work on human challenge trials for COVID-19
A recent Journal of Infections Diseases paper published by CPLB Director Nir Eyal (with Marc Lipsitch and Peter Smith) defending the ethical acceptability of human challenge trials for novel Coronavirus vaccines
May 31 2020
Nir Eyal’s research on human challenge trials cited in Congressional letter to HHS and FDA
A paper led by CPLB director Nir Eyal on human challenge trials for a COVID-19 vaccine
April 20 2020
Nir Eyal publishes a paper on human challenge trials to speed a COVID-19 vaccine
CPLB director Nir Eyal, along with Marc Lipsitch and Peter Smith, have published a paper entitled “Human challenge studies to accelerate coronavirus vaccine licensure”, in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
March 31 2020
Nir Eyal and Manne Sjöstrand on the ethics of unrealistic goals in public health
In a paper published at the American Journal of Public Health Eyal and co-author Manne Sjöstrand trace a recent history of unrealistic goals in public health, namely, goals that seem unachievable when set, such as eradicating a disease or eliminating.
March 11 2020
Mark Budolfson joins CPLB
Mark Budolfson will join Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health.
March 25 2020
CPLB visitor Verina Wild speaks at Rutgers School of Social Work
CPLB visitor Verina Wild presented her study (co-authored with Katharina Eisenhut, Claudia García-Moreno, and Ela Sauerborn) entitled A global review and critical evaluation of mobile apps targeting violence against women and girls, at the Rutgers School
March 10 2020
CPLB visitor Anders Herlitz present at the Value Theory Reading Group
CPLB visitor Anders Herlitz, with coauthor Greg Bognar, presented a paper entitled Testing the Decomposition Test to the Philosophy Department’s Value Theory Reading Group.
March 10 2020
Anders Herlitz visits CPLB
Anders Herlitz a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and Associate professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, is visiting CPLB to conduct research on incommensurability in population-level bioethics
March 2 2020
CPLB postdoc Robert Steel joins University of Nebraska, Omaha
In the Fall of 2020, Steel will take up an assistant professorship at the Philosophy Department of the University of Nebraska, Omaha (UNO).
February 28 2020
Bastian Steuwer joins CPLB as Postdoctoral Associate
Bastian Steuwer will join the Center for Population-Level Bioethics as a Postdoctoral Associate. Steuwer is finishing his PhD in Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
February 27 2020
Jan-Christoph Heilinger visits CPLB
Jan-Christoph Heilinger is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in philosophy at the University of Munich, Germany
February 26 2020
Verina Wild visits CPLB
Verina (Nina) Wild is Deputy Director at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), Germany.
February 26 2020
Mark Shrime speaks at CPLB
Mark Shrime , Founding Director of the Center for Global Surgery Evaluation at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, as well as Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, presented Hidden Figures: addressing the non-medical costs of care in
January 23 2020
Dan Hausman joins CPLB
Daniel M. Hausman will join the Center for Population-Level Bioethics as a Research Professor of Bioethics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy.
January 6 2020
Till Bärnighausen speaks at the Rutgers School of Public Health
Till Bärnighausen is Alexander von Humboldt University Professor and Director of the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
December 9 2019
Mark Budolfson speaks at CPLB
Mark Budolfson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vermont, presented Quantifying environmental justice and wellbeing in climate, health, and other areas of policy analysis at CPLB.
November 14 2019
CPLB Director Nir Eyal gives brown bag seminar on Population-Level Bioethics at IFH
Nir Eyal, Center Director for the Center of Population-Level Bioethics, presented a seminar at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research entitled Population-Level Bioethics.
September 26 2019
Robert Steel joins CPLB as Postdoctoral Associate
Robert Steel has joined the Center for Population-Level Bioethics as its first Postdoctoral Associate. Steel received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 2016.
September 1 2019
Nir Eyal joins Rutgers and founds CPLB
Nir Eyal, bioethicist and political philosopher, has joined Rutgers University as Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics after 13 years on the faculty of the Harvard T H Chan School
July 1 2019