Dr. Art Caplan, a member of the GBI Advisory Board, recently interviewed with the Editor at Large for TIME magazine about some common moral questions surrounding CoVid-19. He discussed questions about social distancing, supporting local businesses/restaurants, and much more. Learn more here.
Dr. Saskia Popescu, one of our featured speakers in the upcoming webinar, "Learning from the Past? Globalization and Coronavirus Spread," wrote an outstanding piece earlier this year on US health care challenges from COVID-19. Learn more here.
Ana Lita, PhD GBI Co-Founder and Executive Director As we are currently facing the COVID - 19 pandemic, it is evident that we all need more factual information about how to prepare and possibly manage a disaster of this magnitude. At the Global Bioethics Initiative, we want to help address the information gaps and support others to be prepared for the peak of the Coronavirus infection. We are pleased to announce that we will be organizing a [...]
Time magazine published an article about Dr. Gelb's personal experience with COVID-19. The article is entitled "The Coronavirus Sidelined Me From My Work as a Doctor. Soon I'll Be Back on the Frontlines." Please click here
The speakers will discuss the critical importance of pandemic preparedness, response, and continued readiness. Some aspects of previous outbreaks involving hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as the limited changes that have occurred in healthcare readiness will be presented. A review of the current U.S. response efforts to the challenges of the COVID-19 outbreak [...]
The Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank, initiated a petition to urge the federal government to develop a more robust and ethical federal response to the pandemic. It is intentionally focused on what the federal government can do, not the states and health systems. The aim is to have bioethics faculty, fellows, and graduate students –people with [...]
I am thankful to have had the chance to attend the summer school in Bangkok organized by the Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), in collaboration with the Department of Bioethics & Engagement, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), University of Oxford. I was also the beneficiary of a partial scholarship. In my opinion, one of the [...]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to provide a level of certainty in planning for our Summer School in 2020, we have decided to deliver this program online as a virtual event. Dates will be announced shortly. We will use Zoom technology, for more information click here. We are working with our instructors to [...]
It was on the last day in 2019 that the news about the novel Coronavirus outbreak was first reported from Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia of unknown etiology was reported in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China (precisely from Wuhan seafood market). It was not until 9 January 2020, that the [...]
Cultural factors play an important role in moulding the ethical perceptions of an individual. Daft et al. (2010) define culture as a “set of common values, norms, beliefs, and ideas shared by members of the same group and not written”. The eleven-day GBI 2019 summer school program in Manhattan was conceived to convey an understanding [...]
