Policy, Politics, Public Health, Vaccines
The Orwellification of the CDC
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (George Orwell, 1984) According to the CDC w...
Subject: Policy
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Editorial-AJOB, Health Care, Health Regulation & Law, Policy
Building Consensus for Responsible AI in Healthcare
This editorial appears in the October 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Although AI in healthcar...
Policy, Politics, Public Health
Revoking Pedestrian Safety Grants is a Matter of Health, Not Just Policy
The health of our society is a social determinant of health. This means that political happenings in our country that in...
Clinical Ethics, Policy, Politics, Vaccines
No surprise: RFK Jr will find some nonsensical reason to link autism to vaccines
At his confirmation hearing to be the 26th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Ken...
Policy, Politics, Public Health, Reproductive Ethics
The Dark Side of Wearables: A Potential Fertility Surveillance Network
While there is an abundance of literature noting the risks of period tracking apps in jurisdictions with strict abortion...
Disability Studies, Editorial-AJOB, End of Life Care, Ethics, Philosophy & Ethics, Policy
Suffering Is Not Useless
This editorial appears in the August 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Echoing Ruth Macklin’s classic ess...
Abortion, End of Life Care, Health Regulation & Law, Philosophy & Ethics, Policy, Politics
What Should Have Happened in the Tragic Case of Adriana Smith?
What should have happened in the tragic case of Adriana Smith, the two-months-pregnant woman who was declared brain dead...
Abortion, End of Life Care, Ethics, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Health Regulation & Law, Policy, Politics, Reproductive Ethics
The Adriana Smith Case Unfolding in Atlanta Raises Many Questions
The widely discussed Adriana Smith case unfolding in Atlanta raises many thorny ethical questions. Despite the case’s hi...
Policy, Science
America Needs a Marshall Plan for Saving the Future of Science
At the end of World War Two, most of Europe lay in ruins. The Nazis had been defeated but at a terrible price to both th...
Education, Policy, Politics, Professional Ethics
How do we Mentor in This Moment?
I don’t know how to be a good mentor right now and I’m mad about it. Almost as soon as I completed my PhD I was pu...
Cultural, Global Ethics, Policy, Politics
University Responses to Student Protests: Anti-Principle, Anti-Ethical, and Anti-Academic
No matter your views about the chaos in the world around us, what we, as bioethicists, have been witnessing at Columbia ...
AI, Policy, Research Ethics
Reimagining Human Rights for the Biotechnology Age
In our rapidly advancing world, biotechnology stands at the forefront of scientific progress. From gene editing and pers...