Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

04/28/2026

in the Academic Lit - This Week - Behavioral-Health Readiness for Gender-Affirming Surgery, Discontinued Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease, School-Based Vision Programs, Changing the Narrative, Discrimination Against Healthcare Workers + Much More

April 28, 2026 Assessment of Behavioral Health Readiness for Gender-Affirming Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Mental Health Provider Practices, Cureus Authors: Madyson Brown, Ferris Zeitouni, Essie Ghafoor et al., including Zackary Berger Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is associated with impr...

04/28/2026

Changing the narrative: Shifting soft skills to power skills in nursing. By Cynda Hylton Rushton, Mikhail Shneyder, Antonia Villarruel | Nursing Management

l to healing, trust, and professional identity. Power skills enable nurses to mitigate suffering, strengthen connections, and lead effectively across education, practice, and policy. This article calls on nurses in all roles to embrace, model, and structurally embed this narrative shift to reclaim n...

04/27/2026

Assessment of Behavioral Health Readiness for Gender-Affirming Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Mental Health Provider Practices. Madyson Brown, Ferris Zeitouni, Essie Ghafoor, Bashar Hassan, Calvin Schuster, Mona Ascha, Romy Smith, Kate Thomas, Zackary Berger, Fan Liang | Cureus

Introduction Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is associated with improved mental health and quality of life outcomes for transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) individuals; however, access to GAS often requires preoperative behavioral health readiness evaluations, as outlined by the World Professional Assoc...

04/27/2026

Landscape analysis of school‐based vision programs in the United States: A survey study - Sondra M. Rahmeh, Xinxing Guo, Medha Kallem, Megan E. Collins - Optometry and Vision Science - 2026

Purpose Currently, there are neither guidelines for school-based vision program operations nor a registry of programs that exist in the United States. We aim to describe the characteristics of schoo...

04/27/2026

Seminar TODAY, Noon - Justin Bernstein, PhD, "Three Models for Public Input in a Public Health Emergency". Open to all, attend in person, lunch provided: Feinstone Hall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Link for more info:

Public health emergencies involve high-stakes, time-sensitive decision-making. These features make public input both normatively attractive and practically difficult. This talk asks: what forms of public input, if any, should governments seek under such conditions? Drawing on the COVID-19 pandemi...

04/24/2026

Evaluating the Price of Oregon’s Psilocybin Services: Finding the Right Comparison - By Katherine Cheung, Caleigh Propes, and David Yaden | Bioethics Today

Oregon’s psilocybin services are often described as quite expensive in both media coverage and academic discussions. However, when making this claim, we

04/24/2026

Global and Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Ultraprocessed, Small & Suburban, Permafrost, Invasive Crabs, Chili Peppers, Hidden Messages, + More

The Johns Hopkins Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International studies, addresses critical global issues of under- and over-nutrition and diet-related diseases, poverty, inequity ...

04/23/2026

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Psychedelics, Placebos, Mind-Reading Beanie, How Does AI Work? Digital Bioethics, Leaky/Chatty Nonhuman Therapists, Gene Molding, Ex Vivo Embryos, Cell Therapy, + Much More

04/23/2026

Discontinued therapies for sickle cell disease: status and future directions. By Akshay Sharma, Shruthi Suryaprakash, Liza-Marie Johnson, Yoram Unguru | Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs

Over the past decade, the therapeutic landscape for sickle cell disease (SCD) has expanded beyond hydroxyurea to targeted small molecules, monoclonal antibodies, and transformative cellular and gen...

04/23/2026

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Don't Do This, Strange Origins, Data Center Ban, Orwellian Books, Digital Twin Superworkers? States Shape Rules, Scarier AI, Anthropomorphizing AI, Medical Misinformation, Clinical Reasoning, European Policy, + More

04/22/2026

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - New Events, 126 Years of , Gene Editing, What I Want Everyone to Know, Collecting Health Data, Prediction Markets: Public Health Threat, Medicine Paradox, Reading Your Thoughts, AI Smells + More

04/21/2026

Preserving Our Ethical Foundations: The Future of Nursing Is Now - By Cynda Hylton Rushton | Journal of Advanced Nursing

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