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Fisher Co-authors New Report on Universities’ Support for Academic Couples

June 25, 2024
Jill Fisher,  Professor of Social Medicine and Core Faculty in the Center for Bioethics, has co-authored a new study ranking research universities’ support for academic couples, including for partner hires.  Fisher’s work with Torin Monahan on dual-career academic couples was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher...

Oberlander Edits Special Issue on Polarization, Partisanship and Health

June 17, 2024
Jonathan Oberlander, Chair and Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Health Policy & Management, is editor of a new special issue in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on Polarization, Partisanship, and Health in the United States. In the lead essay, Oberlander argues that partisan divisions between Democrats and...

Lyerly Is Lead Author of Article In The Hastings Center Report

June 13, 2024
Anne Drapkin Lyerly, MD, professor of Social Medicine, core faculty in the Center of Bioethics, and research professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the , is lead author of “Beneath the Sword of Damocles: Moral Obligations of Physicians in a Post-Dobbs Landscape.” Lyerly is Lead Author of...

The Hastings Center Names Dr. Mara Buchbinder Fellow, 2023

January 26, 2024
Dr. Mara Buchbinder has been named as 1 of 13 new fellows elected by The Hastings Center for 2023. Hastings Center Welcomes 13 New Fellows  

Dr. Mara Buchbinder and Colleagues Document Health Provider Impacts from Post-Dobbs Abortion Bans

January 26, 2024
Dr. Mara Buchbinder, and colleagues at the and Harvard University, has a new piece out in JAMA Network Open on how OB-GYNs perceive the impacts of state abortion bans post-Dobbs, as well as an accompanying editorial in The News & Observer.

Buchbinder Publishes Research on Physician Stress Highlighted in News & Observer

September 22, 2023
Mara Buchbinder’s research on physician stress during the Covid-19 pandemic was highlighted in an article on politics and medicine in the Raleigh News & Observer  

Merrimon Lecture: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into Health Care: Ethical and Legal Challenges

September 22, 2023
The Merrimon Lecture Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST Location: 4008 Old Clinic Auditorium Download flyer I. Glenn Cohen Deputy Dean and James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Faculty Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Prof. Cohen...

Jill Fisher winner of the ASA Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award

September 5, 2023
Jill Fisher won the 2023 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association for her co-authored paper “Gendered Logics of Biomedical Research: Women in U.S. Phase I Clinical Trials” that was published in 2022 in the journal Social Problems. https://asasexandgender.wordpress.com/awards/

Researchers receive $25.3 million to study potential risks for Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias

August 16, 2023
A team led by Kathleen Mullan Harris and Krista M. Perreira (MPIs)  at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Joseph Hotz and Naomi Duke (MPIs) at Duke University have received a five-year, $25.3 million National Institute of Aging (NIA) award. The award will address gaps in our...

Jill Fisher is the recipient of a three-year grant from the National Library of Medicine

July 17, 2023
Dr. Jill A. Fisher is the recipient of a three-year grant from the National Library of Medicine (NIH) to support the writing of a scholarly book on the medicalization and pharmaceuticalization of food allergies. Tentatively titled “Challenging Allergies: The Search for a Magic Bullet for Pediatric Food Allergies,” the book will explore how US...