Events of Interest
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Please note that these events are sponsored by organizations other than the Bioethics Center. For more information or to check the status of a lecture in the event of bad weather, please contact the sponsoring organization.
Monday, February 13
Religion & Politics Colloquium
Time: 12 PM
Location: Rosenkranz Hall (RKZ) 202, 115 Prospect St
Speaker: Annalise Glauz-Todrank, Wesleyan University
Topic: Religion, Race and Hate-Crime: Situating Jewish Identity in Law and Society
Global Change Seminar
Time: 2 PM
Location: Room 102, Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Ave
Speaker: William Boos, Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics
Topic: Are Most Predictions of Twenty-First Century Monsoon Rainfall Wrong?
Tuesday, February 14
Information Society Project Panel (Yale Community Only)
Time: 12 PM
Location: Room 129, 127 Wall St.
Panelists: Chris Hansen, lead attorney, ACLU
Richard Marsh, general counsel, Myriad Genetics
Rochelle Dreyfuss, New York Univ.
Dr. Allen Bale, director, DNA Diagnostic Lab, Yale
Topic: Gene Patents: Advancing Medicine or Capturing Humanity?
Wednesday, February 15
Middle East Studies Colloquium
Time: 11:45 AM
Location: 77 Prospect St room A001
Speaker: Irus Braverman, Associate Professor, Law School, SUNY Buffalo
Topic: Animal Frontiers: A Tale of Three Zoos in Israel/Palestine
F&ES Seminar
Time: 12 PM
Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St.
Speaker: Ken Gillingham, Yale FES
Topic: Understanding the rebound effect: How much more do consumers drive when we implement fuel economy standards?
Environmental Law & Policy Lecture
Time: 4 PM
Location: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St.
Speaker: Amory Lovins, author of Reinventing Fire
Topic: Business-led pathways for the U.S. to phase out fossil fuels and win the global clean energy race
Environmental Economics Seminar
Time: 4 PM
Location: Kroon Hall 321, 195 Prospect St.
Speaker: Lint Barrage, Yale Economics
Topic: Carbon Tax Paths in a Dynamic Fiscal Context
Thursday, February 16
Environmental Law & Policy Webinar
Time: 12 PM
Location: online
Speaker: Dr. Paulo Moutinho, Executive Director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute
Topic: The End of Deforestation in the Amazon: Is it Possible?
Friday, February 17
Agrarian Studies Colloquium
Time: 11 AM
Location: 77 Prospect St room B012
Speaker: Sara Shneiderman, Anthropology, Yale University
Topic: Transcendent Territory and Portable Deities: Mobility and the Problem of Indigeneity between Nepal and India
Zigler Center Lecture
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: 100 Wall St, room 127
Speaker: Victoria Brescoll, Assistant Professor, School of Management, Yale University
Topic: Employer and Employee Attitudes Toward Flexible Work Schedules
Campus Conferences and Off-Campus Events
2012 |
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2/25 |
New Directions in Environmental Law: [Re]Claiming Accountability |
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3/1-4 |
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Meeting |
(Cincinnati, OH) |
3/4 |
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3/16-17 |
(Philadelphia, PA) |
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3/21-22 |
Engaging the Community for Research Success: What Scientists and IRBs Need to Know |
(Raleigh, NC) |
3/23-24 |
States, Minds, and States of Mind: Mental Health as a Human Right |
(Yale) |
3/30-4/1 |
(New York, NY) |
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4/19 |
Smithsonian/Navy Medicine Institutde Ethics Education Conference: The Tuskegee Experience |
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4/21-22 |
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5/3 |
(Farmington, CT) |
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5/15-18 |
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New Directions in Environmental Law: [Re]Claiming Accountability
A Conference by the Yale Environmental Law Association
February 25, 2012
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT
Please join us on February 25, 2012 and help [re]claim environmental accountability in our legal system and beyond. This is the second annual conference in our New Directions in Environmental Law Conference Series, hosted by the Yale Environmental Law Association. This year we will challenge the meanings andmechanisms behind environmental accountability—from the local to the global, from litigation to regulation to market-based opportunities and norm-shifting movements. We will critically question environmental accountability in the modern era and amongst evolving legal strategies. Our foundational conference last spring, A Climate of Possibility, drew 300 practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students from around the country to inquire into the problems, challenges, and potential new directions in environmental law and policy. Last year’s conference was defined by inclusive and provocative conversations, which we look forward to expanding upon this February.
Keynote Speaker Mary Nichols: Chairman of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and former Assistant Administrator for the U.S. EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. A pathbreaker at for clean air solutions at CARB, a pivotal leader towards implementing California’s landmark Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32, and a bold advocate for environmental and public health throughout her career, Chairman Nichols puts a face to the force and future of this Conference. Through her service across government and in the non-profit legal arena, Chairman Nichols has ensured pollution reduction accountability within a patchwork of common-sense partnerships; she continues to prove that environmental law is a field rich with practical purpose and principled foundations.
Panel Conversations: Nature in Brief: Creative Legal Approaches to Accountability
Nature in Brief will be a dynamic panel conversation that questions how practitioners can—and whether they should—stretch the bounds of standard canons, the common law, or constitutional claims to hold actors accountable for environmental harms through creative legal approaches, and in particular, litigation. The panel will bring together divergent voices—individuals who are looking at existing laws through a new lens and individuals who must ground their approaches within established institutional frameworks—to advance this evolving conversation.
Workshops: The workshops will engage participants in conversations about the contours of environmental accountability. They will be led by experts in their fields and designed to be round-table discussions that bring participants into the discourse, bridging communities of inquiry and practice amongst students, professors, and practitioners. Topics will include:
Environmental Enforcement: Using Civil & Criminal Laws to Address Env. Misdeeds
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Lieu of Environmental Justice Litigation
Offshore Oil Drilling Accountability Post-Deepwater Horizon
Environmental Markets: Urban & Rural Responsibilities
The Case of Specialized Environmental Courts
Accountability to Future Generations
Food: Sustainability & Access
Smart Growth and Land Use
Ocean Acidification
The Conference will also feature Social Events, a Reception, and an Environmental Law Society Programming Lunch
Register Now!
Free for members of Yale and Quinnipiac Universities, and New Haven Residents
$30 for Students (with a need-based waiver option)
$50 for Professionals and Practitioners
http://www.law.yale.edu/news/2012envlawatyale.htm
Contact us at: YaleEnvLawConference@gmail.com
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Twenty-first Annual Meeting
March 1 - 4, 2012
Cincinnati, OH
The Twenty-first Annual Meeting will convene at the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, 35 West Fifth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. The Meeting, open to Association members and nonmembers, welcomes persons from various disciplines and professions for discussion of common concerns in practical and professional ethics. The meeting provides an opportunity to meet practitioners, professionals and scholars who share your interests. The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics was founded in 1991 to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching of high quality in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the practical-theoretical aspects of their subjects. The Association facilitates communication and joint ventures among centers, schools, colleges, business and nonprofit organizations and individuals concerned with the interdisciplinary study and teaching of practical and professional ethics. The Association is also the sponsor of the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl held at the Annual Meeting and the 10 Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowls held under its auspices.
Registration
On-Time Registration ends January 23, 2012
Late Registration Fees apply beginning January 24, 2012
Registration for the Annual Meeting for the Association is now being handled online. In addition to furthering a greener initiative, this new system will expedite the registration process and provide an instant confirmation by email. You may choose to pay online using our secure payment gateway, or send your payment by check or wire. No matter your form of payment, your registration will be saved and you will get an instant confirmation/invoice by email. You will be able to update your registration at a later date with specific meeting and meal selections. Simply keep track of your user name and password to re-enter the registration site and update your record. For those attending the conference for only one day or session, please contact the APPE office at: 812-855-6450 or appe@indiana.edu. THE LINK FOR REGISTRATION IS HERE.
Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Mini-Conference: “Empathy in Moral Theory and Political Life”
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Cincinnati, OH
The Empathy Mini-conference will provide an overview of current questions and research, presentations by noted scholars in this area from a number of different disciplines, and an opportunity for APPE members to engage in discussions related to work in ethics and values. To attend this Mini-conference, you must register for it, in addition to your registration for the Annual Meeting. If you have already registered for the Annual Meeting, return to the registration link HERE. Once there, log in with your user name and password that you created when you registered for the Annual Meeting and click the appropriate button under the Mini-conference listing. Registration for the Mini-conference is $40 for members and $70 for non-members. Schedule, speakers and topics are listed below.
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Introduction and Overview: Richard B. Miller
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Session One: Fritz Breithaupt and Kevin Houser
10:30-11:30 a.m. Session Two: Michelle Brown and Richard B. Miller
Empathy denotes the ability to “place oneself in another’s shoes” cognitively, emotively, and self-reflexively. It enables us to move from a perspective in which we project our own thoughts and feelings onto someone to a psychological state in which our emotions are conditioned by our awareness of another’s feelings and frame of mind. In prototypical instance of empathy, we feel as we take the other to feel, given our perception of his or her circumstances, and we are mindful of how our feelings have been so transformed. Empathy enables us to overcome isolation and imaginatively engage others on their own terms. Moreover, knowing that others can or should be empathic allows us to assume that they can be so disposed toward oneself.
Empathy’s importance for mental health, moral development, adjudication of conflicts, and self-other relationships cuts across a wide range of cultural, intellectual, and political practices. It is a now a reference point for discussions of criminology, civil society, evolution, animal research, history, the arts, moral philosophy, and artificial intelligence. This mini-conference will explore some of empathy’s dimensions in moral theory and political life.
Panelists
Richard B. Miller, Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Director, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Fritz Breithaupt, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, Indiana University
Michelle Brown, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Kevin Houser, Department of Philosophy and Dissertation Fellow for the Virtuous Empathy Project, 2010-11, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Ethics of the Heart II: Ethical and Policy Challenges in Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease
March 16-17
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
COURSE DIRECTORS: Beth D. Kaufman, MD, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and James N. Kirkpatrick, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Center for Bioethics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
PROGRAM OVERVIEW: The purpose of this educational activity is to convene a multidisciplinary panel of nationally known experts to identify and discuss the most important ethical issues in congenital heart disease, providing a forum for clinicians, ethicists, chaplains, social workers, public health workers and trainees to discuss developments in this field. Participants will be enabled and encouraged to address these issues in research endeavors, quality improvement initiatives, and policy development and implementation at their home institutions.
TARGET AUDIENCE: This activity has been designed for clinicians who provide care to congenital heart disease patients, including physicians, nurses, chaplains, allied health professionals and psychologists; bioethicists, health policy/health administration specialists, public health professionals and trainees from each of these fields; and local, regional and national public health officials. A limited number of trainee travel scholarships is available. To be considered, please contact Dr. Kirkpatrick at james.kirkpatrick@uphs.upenn.edu or Dr. Lin at linky@email.chop.edu for more information. For full course information or to register, please visit our site.
DESIGNATION OF CREDIT
PHYSICIANS: The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania designates this live activity for a maximum of 9.0 AMA PRA Category l Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
NURSES: This continuing nursing education activity is approved for 9.0 contact hours by the PA State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Engaging the Community for Research Success: What Scientists and IRBs Need to Know
Raleigh, North Carolina
3/21-22
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Office of Human Research Protections are convening a National Research Community Forum entitled, "Engaging the Community for Research Success: What Scientists and IRBs Need to Know," at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 21-22, 2012. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is delighted to be co-sponsoring and exhibiting at this conference. CCPH senior consultant Nancy Shore will be presenting on a plenary panel, "Does the Belmont Report Provide Considerations for Community Risks and Benefits?" Learn more about CCPH's work on CBPR ethics here and here. For more information about the conference, click here.
States, Minds, and States of Mind: Mental Health as a Human Right
March 23-24
Yale University
Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal and Yale Law School, the biannual Symposium will take place March 23 and 24, 2012 at Yale Law School in New Haven, CT. This year’s Symposium, entitled “States, Minds, and States of Mind: Mental Health as a Human Right,” will examine access to healthcare, equal treatment, and justice for people with psychosocial and developmental disabilities through the lens of human rights advocacy. The symposium will feature many of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field. More information about this year's symposium can be found here, and registration is open at http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?466015. We will continue updating our website as additional plans are finalized, and we are happy to answer questions by e-mail. As a leader with a emonstrated commitment to these issues, we hope you will join us in March and help us get the word out about this important event by forwarding this invitation widely. Our 2010 Symposium, which examined the Right to Food, was attended by hundreds of academics, practitioners, activists, policymakers, and students.
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2012 Bioethics Conference: The Moral Brain
Friday, March 30 - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Location: New York University, NYU Center for Bioethics, Washington Sq., Room TBA
Sponsored by The NYU Center for Bioethics, the Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies.
Part I: “The Significance of Neuroscience for Morality: Lessons from a Decade of Research”
Organized by the NYU Center for Bioethics in collaboration with the Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics
It has been a decade since the first brain imaging studies of moral judgments by Joshua Greene, Jorge Moll and their colleagues were reported. During this time, there have been rich philosophical and scientific discussions regarding a) whether brain imaging data can tell us anything about moral judgments, and b) what they do tell us if they can tell us something about moral judgments. In this workshop, we aim to bring leading philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists in this area together to examine these issues and to explore the future directions of this research.
Opening Remarks:
Thomas Carew, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, New York University
Speakers:
James Blair, Paul Bloom, Molly Crockett, Tamar Gendler, Joshua Greene, Jonathan Haidt, Guy Kahane, S. Matthew Liao, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, James Woodward, & Liane Young.
Part II: "Can Moral Behavior be Improved or Enhanced?"
Organized by the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies.
Should the research on moral psychology be interpreted as suggesting new approaches for improving, or perhaps enhancing, moral intuitions, attitudes, judgments, and behavior or for reforming social institutions? Can we create more effective educational tools for improving moral development? For the last century psychiatry has attempted to medicalize moral failings - lack of self-control, addiction, anger, impatience, fear. But what of engineering ourselves to higher states of virtue? If the enhancement of morality is possible, which virtues or cognitive capabilities will it be safe to enhance and how? What might be the unanticipated side effects of attempts to enhance moral behavior?
Speakers:
Paul Bloom, William Casebeer, Molly Crockett, James Giordano, Joshua Greene, James Hughes, Fabrice Jotterand, William Kabasenche, Joshua Knobe, Andrea Kuszewski, S. Matthew Liao, Maxwell Mehlman, Anna Pacholczyk, Ingmar Persson, Erik Parens, Martine Rothblatt, Jonathan Shook, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, & Wendell Wallach.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: http://bioethics.as.nyu.edu/object/bioethics.events.20120330.conference
Questions? Contact the NYU Center for Bioethics at bioethicsconference@nyu.edu
RSVP REQUIRED: http://goo.gl/PXHmO
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Smithsonian/Navy Medicine Institute Ethics Education Conference: The Tuskegee Experience
April 19
Washington, DC
Registration has exceeded all expectations. After only 4 days of announcement last week, we are already at 78% capacity at the Baird Auditorium, the largest of the Smithsonian locations. The conference has attracted a large number of executive leaders among all of our own institutions as well as international colleagues. I most strongly urge those wishing to participate to register right away! Registration URL: http://bit.ly/ueoxz0. Agenda/faculty/location found on the registration page.
Our keynote speaker is Dr. Rueben Warren, Director of the Ethics Center at Tuskegee University, Along with other members of the Tuskegee Legacy Committee, Dr. Warren was instrumental in energizing President Clinton to issue the 1997 Presidential Apology. Dr. Warren is a former CDC employee, is a licensed dentist and dental health expert, holds master's and doctoral degrees in public health, holds a master of divinity specializing in ethics, and is ordained. An extremely gifted and greatly acclaimed international figure, it was a privilege for me to secure his being the keynote speaker.
Questions? Contact me per below. For technical problems with registration, though, contact: conference@angleproof.com.
Regards,
Dr. Edward Gabriele
Special Assistant to the Navy Surgeon General for Ethics & Professional Integrity
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Navy Medicine Institute for the Medical Humanities and Research Leadership Editor, Journal of Healthcare, Science & the Humanities Executive Research Integrity Officer USN Bureau of Medicine & Surgery Washington, DC
Email: Edward.Gabriele@med.navy.mil
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012
Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 21 - Sunday, April 22, 2012
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference
The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Register during June to secure the lowest registration rate.
Interested in presenting at the conference? Submit an abstract for consideration.
The conference's 300 speakers include:
Design Thinking Speakers
- Robert Fabricant, Vice President of Creative, Frog Design Inc.
- Michael Murphy, Executive Director and Co-Founder, MASS Design Group
- "Designing Effective Visuals For Global Communication," Natacha Poggio, Assistant Professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
- Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Fellow, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
- Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy & Administration; Director, Global Health Initiative, Yale University
- Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
- Cheryl Moyer, MPH, Managing Director, Global REACH; Research Investigator, Department of Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School
- "An Inventory of Toxic Hotspots in the Developing World - Over 100 Million Exposed," Richard Fuller, President, Blacksmith Institute
- "Farmers First: Scaling a Permanent and Sustainable End To Hunger," Tony Kalm, Director of Business Development, One Acre Fund
- Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Anne Murray, Senior Development Officer, E+CO
- Dawn Shapiro, Filmmaker, The Edge of Joy
- Landon Van Soest, Producer, Good Fortune; Filmmaker Transient Pictures
- Molly Christiansen, Manager, Health Practices and Business Development, Living Goods
- Lakshmi Karan, Director, Global Strategy, Riders for Health
- Tricia Morente, Head of Strategy and Marketing, LifeSpring Hospitals
- Alan Bernstein, PhD, Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
- Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Adetokunbo O. Lucas, Adjunct Professor of International Health, Harvard University
- Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "Bureaucratic Luddities and Other Opportunities for Innovation in TB Control," Peter Small, MD, Deputy Director, TB, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- "Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) for Prevention of Material to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV/AIDS in Kenya," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor, USAID Office of Economic Growth
- Jane Aronson, MD, CEO and Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation; Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Cornell Weill Medical College and Columbia University
- "Reproductive Refugees: Health Disparities and Diasporic Dreams in Post/911 Arab America," Marcia Inhorn, MPH, PhD, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs Chair, Council on Middle East Studies
- "Family Planning: Remarkable Progress but a Steep Road Ahead," Joe Speidel, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Director for Communication, Development and External Relations, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
- Laura Stachel, MD, MPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health; Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar
- "Frontline Health Workers as the Key to Achieving the Health MDGs," Charles MacCormack, President and CEO, Save The Children
- Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
- Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University
- Jenny Aker, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
- "Meet the Editor: How to Write for Global Health Journals," Jocalyn Clark, Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
- "Advances in Global Eye Health Research," Deborah Carper, Deputy Director, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
- Elisabet de los Pinos, Founder and CEO, Aura Biosciences
- Dean Jamison, Professor, Global Health and Adjunct Professor, Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health
- "Glaucoma Screening: Current Trends and Challenges," Sarwat Salim, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee
- James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Diana Ayton-Shenker, Founder and CEO, Fast Forward Fund
- Lucy Bernholz, Arabella Advisors
- "From Donor-Driven to Impact-Driven: How Evidence Can Inform Smarter Global Health Philanthropy," Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, MSc, Research Director - Global Public Health, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania
- Aaron Hurst, President and Founder, Taproot Foundation
- Erica Bliss Pattni, Vice President of Marketing, KIND Healthy Snacks
- Kyle Berner, Creator, Feelgoodz LLC
- "Diamonds for Development," Shane Rogers, Co-Founder, The Clarity Project
- Zak Zaidman, Co-Founder and CEO, Kopali Organics
- "Sustainable Social Change: The Power of Enterprise Solutions," Ron Bills, Chairman & CEO, Envirofit International
- Michael Fairbanks, co-Founder, SEVEN
- Lara Galinsky, Senior Vice President, Echoing Green
- Paul Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service, Robert Wagner School of Public Service, New York University
- Eric Nee, Managing Editor, Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Jill Tucker, Senior Program Officer, Lemelson Foundation
- Tim Zak, Associate Teaching Professor; Director, Institute for Social Innovation, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University
- Neal Baer, MD, Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC's Annenberg School of Communications; Executive Producer, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
- Scott Henderson, Principal at CauseShift and Campaign Manager of WeCanEndThis.com
- "Overcoming Barriers By Using Humor and Animation to Create a Cultural Shift," Firdaus Kharas, Chairman, Chocolate Moose Media and Global Shift
- Tom Watson, President, CauseWired
- "AAO Global Alliances," Michael Brennan, MD, American Academy of Ophthalmology Past President, Alamance Eye Center
- Selwyn Rogers, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
- Nader Moinfar, Magruder Eye Institute and University of Central Florida School of Medicine, Orlando, Florida
- "Strengthening Health Systems in Resource-Poor Settings Through the Application of the Sana Wireless Technology," Leo Celi, MD, MPH, MS, Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Rich Fletcher, PhD, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab
- Hamish Fraser, MBChB, MRCP, MSc, Director of Informatics and Telemedicine, Partners in Health; Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Jose Gomez-Marquez, Co-Founder and Co-Inventor, Aerovax; Co-Founder, X out TB; Lecturer, D-LAB, MIT
- Jessica Haberer, MD, MS, Research Scientist, Harvard Institute for Global Health; Assistant in Health Decision Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
- "mHealth: Scaling Up, Low Cost Mobile Solutions in (PMTCT) Preventing-Mother-to-Child-Transmission-Programs," Bobby Jefferson, Health IT Project Manager, Futures Group
- "Disrupting Pathways to Mortality with Technology: Opportunities for Resource-Limited Settings," Alain Labrique, Assistant Professor, Director, Johns Hopkins Bangladesh; Department of International Health and Department of Epidemiology Program in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- "BioPhotonics Technologies for Global Health," Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
- "Low-Cost Diagnostics for the Developing World," Una Ryan, OBE, PhD, DSc, CEO, Diagnostics For All
- Ned Breslin, Chief Executive Officer, Water For People
- David Kuria, Chief Executive, Ecotact
2012 Donaghue Foundation Conference
Hartford Marriott Farmington, 15 Farm Springs Road, Farmington, CT
Thursday May 3, 2012 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
Life is full of risks, so how do we understand and respond to those risks with our everyday lifestyle choices, reactions to community-wide emergencies and disasters, and decisions concerning medical treatments for ourselves and our families? This conference will explore how our perceptions of risk are formed and how our understanding of risk influences our behavior and decisions. The program will provide an overview of what is known about risk and how psychology, literacy and experience, among other factors, influence our perceptions of risk. Our presenters will focus on risk assessment in medical decision-making by both patients and practitioners. Strategies for effective risk communication will be presented and applied to lifestyle and treatment choices and to the personal and societal use of resources that effect personal and public health. CME's, CEU's and CEC's for physicians, nurses and social workers will be offered at this conference. For more information click here. Book signing by David Ropeik following the event. Barnes & Noble will be onsite for book purchases. Please register by April 23, 2012. This conference is free of charge but registration is required. Photos/Videos may be taken during this conference and used in Donaghue Foundation materials.
Teaching Research Ethics
Nineteenth Annual Workshop, May 15-18, 2012
Bloomington, IN
The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions will host the annual Teaching Research Ethics Workshop at the Indiana Memorial Union on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington, May 15-18, 2012. Session topics will include an overview of ethical theory, trainee and authorship issues, conflicts of interest, using human subjects in clinical and non-clinical research, and responsible data management. Many sessions will feature techniques for teaching and assessing the responsible conduct of research. For more information contact Glenda Murray, Program Associate, Poynter Center, Indiana University, 618 East Third Street, Bloomington IN 47405-3602; (812) 855-0262; FAX (812) 855-3315; glmurray@indiana.edu. Information & registration are available at http://poynter.indiana.edu/tre
