The United Nations Headquarters On July 11, 2019, members of the Global Bioethics Summer Program visited the United Nations.   The visit included a stop at the Permanent Memorial to Honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade located on the United Nations Visitors Plaza in New York which was unveiled on March [...]

As science and technology continue their quest to improve the health of mankind, the application of ethics in healthcare has become more crucial than ever before. I have had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Global Bioethics Initiative summer school in Manhattan, New York, on a partial scholarship. The course deeply struck a chord with [...]

Infertility, or the inability to conceive children after 12 months of sexual intercourse without birth control or the inability to carry a pregnancy to full term, affects around 10 percent of women aged 15 to 44  in the United States and around 8 to 10 percent worldwide. This infertility combined with the social pressure to have children and spread [...]

MORU (Mahidol Oxford Tropical Research Unit) , SMRU (Shoklo Malaria Research Unit) and FilmAid Foundation invite you to the Bangkok Premiere of Under the Mask on the 17th June. This drama film is based on real testimonies of TB patients. The story follows the lives of our characters as they journey from diagnosis to treatment [...]

"Amidst a surge in new cases, the epidemic has claimed more than 1,200 lives and threatens to spread to other provinces in the east, as well as neighbouring countries. A third of those infected have been children; a higher proportion than during previous outbreaks. Up to the middle of this month, the number of cases, according to [...]

By Michael Bloom, GBI intern, MA Bioethics candidate at New York University Last month, Doctors Without Borders (DWB) saw attacks on two of their Ebola treatment centers in the North Kivu province. Shortly afterward, there was a high-profile visit to the area by both Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Director-General, [...]

World Health Organization: "The rise in number of Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases observed in the North Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues this week. During the last 21 days (20 March to 9 April 2019), 57 health areas within 11 health zones reported new cases; 40% of the 141 health [...]

By Kerin Shilla, B.A. Candidate - Hunter College, GBI Intern Edited by Christina Valeros, B.A. Candidate - Hunter College, GBI Intern On March 14th, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director of the World Health Organization, made a statement regarding the now eight month long outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The number [...]

By Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) 7 March 2019 – Seven months into the largest ever Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Ebola response is failing to bring the epidemic under control in a climate of deepening community mistrust, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said at a press conference in Geneva today. Since the beginning [...]

By Michael Bloom, GBI Intern Edited by Christina Valeros, GBI Intern Since November 2018, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB) has overseen a clinical trial of experimental vaccines to protect against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO).  Dr. Janet Diaz, the leader of [...]