Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

12/23/2025

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Scary Predictions, Chatbot Ghosting, Written by AI? Same 12 Stock Photo Cliches, Policy Collision Course, Identity and AI Agents, Promises, Perils, + More

12/23/2025

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Lab-Grown 'Tiny Brains', Daily Wonder, Race in Clinical Algorithms, A Serious AI Peer Review Problem, Fair and Trustworthy, Human Embryos on Artificial Womb Organoids, Biological Research Material, + More

12/23/2025

Berman Institute Bulletin - Care for Pregnant Women in Jails, Moral Obligation to Push Back, Quitting Weight-Loss Drugs, Correcting Gender Imbalance, High Premiums, Transplant Tourists, Soon-to-Be Uninsured, + More

12/23/2025

Bioethics in the Academic Lit - This Week - Race in Clinical Algorithms, Fair & Trustworthy AI, Mitigating Su***de Risk for Minors w/ AI Chatbots, Reading the Room, Equity in Public Health Ethics, Mass Immunization, Public Consent, + More

December 23, 2025 Public Opinion on Use of Race in Clinical Algorithms, JAMA Internal Medicine Authors: James Diao, Rajiv Movva, Lingwei Cheng, Kowe Kadoma, Aashna Shah, Neil Powe, Kadija Ferryman, Arjun Manrai, Emma Pierson The use of race in clinical algorithms remains debated. However, there are...

12/23/2025

Experiences of participants in ETEC controlled human infection model studies - Bettina Wunderlich, Kathryn Chang, Jessica Schue, Lawrence Moulton, Nancy Kass, Ruth Karron, Kawsar Talaat | PLOS One

Background Controlled human infection model (CHIM) studies raise ethical issues due to intentional exposure of healthy volunteers to a pathogen. In this study we examine the experiences of participants who have chosen to participate in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) CHIM studies in a single...

12/22/2025

Public Opinion on Use of Race in Clinical Algorithms - James Diao, Rajiv Movva, Lingwei Cheng, Kowe Kadoma, Aashna Shah, Neil Powe, Kadija Ferryman, Arjun Manrai, Emma Pierson | JAMA Internal Medicine

This survey study assesses public opinion and preferences among US adults regarding the use of race in clinical algorithms.

12/19/2025

Global & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Summer of Starvation, Man-Made Hunger Crisis, Antibiotics-in-Meat Problem, Verification, Resilience, Bird Flu Risk, 'Not Working', Is Food Medicine? + 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 ...

12/19/2025

ICYMI - Watch Now! "When Faith and Facts Collide: Navigating Hope and Denial at the End of Life" - Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch: Case Presentation & Discussion

Ethics for Lunch,, Dec. 16, 2025When Faith and Facts Collide: Navigating Hope and Denial at the End of LifeCaseMr. J is a 59-year-old man with metastatic pan...

12/18/2025

Lawmakers vow to improve care for pregnant women in jails: with comments from our Carolyn Sufrin, MD. | NBC News

Officials in Congress and in states from Pennsylvania to California said they were alarmed by a Bloomberg Law and NBC News investigation.

12/18/2025

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | 2000 Year-Old Debate, Preempting State AI Laws, Can Machines Suffer? AI Doomers Undeterred, One Chatbot Per Child, AI-Generated Mugshots, Is Faster Better? + More

12/18/2025

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Mini Brains - Big Questions, Teen Mind Mysteries, Bionic Hands, AI Peer Review, Will AI Kill Science? Supervision, Gene Therapy Death, Organ Preservation, Gene-Drive-Capable Mosquitoes, + More

12/17/2025

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - Calls for Applications/Abstracts, The Language of Serious Illness, Look to the States, Reviewer Hack, AI Peer Review Use, No One Wants to Make It, Antidepressants in Pregnancy, + More