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Promoting Social Justice in Academic Institutions
As part of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education‘s Advancing Health and Social Justice Web Series, Dr. Faith Fletcher … More
Dangerous Ethics Oversight in Purdue Child Nutritional Study: Fordham University’s Dr. Celia Fisher Weighs In
This past July. an $8.8 million dollar, camp-like nutrition study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was shut … More
Welcome 2017 HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute Fellows!
The Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) is pleased to announce that the following individuals have been … More
Ethics & Society Newsfeed: October 14, 2016
Health Care and Bioethics DNA database highlights need for new medical privacy protections Creation of a national repository of genetic … More
Will Research on 10,000 New Yorkers Fuel Future Racial Health Inequality?
By Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. A 20-year, multi-million dollar study of more than 10,000 New Yorkers scheduled to begin next … More
Best intentions, worst outcomes: Ethical and legal challenges for international research involving sex workers
Central America hosts a thriving sex work industry that is a key source and transit region for sex trafficking and … More
Ethics & Society Newsfeed: March 4, 2016
NIH vowed to move its research chimps from labs, but only 7 got safe haven in 2015 Nearly three years after … More
Ethics & Society Newsfeed: February 19, 2016
Voices for Our Fathers Keeping Memory of Horrific Study Alive The Tuskegee syphilis experiment recruited poor men with “bad blood” … More
NIH’s New Definition of “Children” Finally Gets it Right: A Welcome Change for Children’s Health Equity
By Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. Under current federal research regulations, a “child” is defined as an individual younger than 21 … More
Opportunity to Submit Comments for the Office of Disease Prevention Draft Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2014–2018
The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) has announced the release of a Request for Information to gather broad public input on the ODP Draft … More
NIH Grant Applications and the Government Shutdown: What You Need to Know
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has today issued a notice to the extramural grantee community regarding the lapse of … More
