Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

09/10/2026

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Perception, Racing Brains, Implantable BCIs, Getting Serious about AI, Coming Up Short, Robot Reviewers, Ethical Organoid Research, Pig Kidney Transplantation Update, Hene Therapy Trial Deaths, + Much More

09/10/2026

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | 'Superintelligence' Ban, Conscious? Who Cares, Anti-Regulation Train, Data Centers In Space, Dead-Internet Theory, Training Wheels for AI at the Bedside, Algorithmic Accountability, + More

09/09/2026

Berman Institute Bulletin - This Week - New Endowed Professorship Appointments, Cuts to Research Focused on Making Healthcare Safer - More Efficient, New Events, Outrage, Transplanted Pig Kidneys, Measles, Data Leaks, Gene Therapy Trial Deaths, + Much More

09/09/2026

Ethics for Lunch: Case Presentation & Discussion, "Documenting Decision-Making Capacity, Oral Advance Directives, and Health Care Agents". Tues, Sept 15, Noon. Open to all, Lunch provided. Attend in person, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Room N340. Link for more info:

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Noon-1 p.m. Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Room N340 Lunch will be provided. RSVPs are not required, please email Anna Adelman with any questions This Ethics for Lunch will present various clinical scenarios to highlight different aspects of documenting a patient.....

09/09/2026

Berman Institute Endowed Professorship Appointments Build on a Legacy of Leadership in : Travis Rieder, PhD, has been named the inaugural holder of the Ruth R. Faden Professorship in Bioethics Education, while Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH, has been named the new holder of the Philip Franklin Wagley Chair in Biomedical Ethics.

Travis Rieder named inaugural Faden Professor in Bioethics Education; Mary Catherine Beach appointed Wagley Chair in Biomedical Ethics

09/08/2026

in the Academic Lit - This Week - IRB Policies on Inclusion of Pregnant Women, Authentic Advocacy at the Bedside, Racial Disparities in MS Quality of Care Metrics, AI at the Bedside: Training Wheels, Diabetes & Driving, Go-Bags, Oocyte Cryopreservation, + More

IRB Policies on the Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Research, Ethics & Human Research Authors: Stephanie Morain, Caleigh Propes, Ruth Faden Pregnant women have historically been excluded from clinical research, denying pregnant women the benefits of the societal investment in biomedical research an...

09/08/2026

AI at the Bedside: An Argument for a Training Wheels Approach - Katherine MacDuffie, Douglas Diekema, Jennifer Kett, Elliott Weiss, Marlyse Haward, Yoram Unguru | Pediatrics

09/07/2026

IRB Policies on the Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Research - Stephanie Morain, Caleigh Propes, Ruth Faden - 2026 - Ethics & Human Research

Pregnant women have historically been excluded from clinical research, denying pregnant women the benefits of the societal investment in biomedical research and potential direct benefits from researc...

09/07/2026

Authentic Advocacy at the Bedside: A Framework for Ethical Nursing Practice - Cynda Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN | AACN Advanced Critical Care

Critical care nurses have long understood advocacy as foundational to who we are. Nursing organizations explicitly recognize advocacy as nursing’s moral foundation and ethical mandate, articulated in professional codes of ethics (eg, American Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses)...

09/07/2026

Join us online - Mon, Sept 14, Noon EDT: Nadia Tagoe, PhD, "Rethinking Ethics Capacity: What Does Global Health Need Now?". Open to all. Link for more info and to join via Zoom. Cosponsor: Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health | Berman Institute Seminar Series

Global health is confronting a rapidly changing ethical landscape shaped by converging crises, technological transformation, geopolitical change, resource constraints, and persistent structural and epistemic inequities. Yet, to what extent has ethics capacity kept pace with this changing landscape,...