NYU Center for Bioethics

As science, technology, and medicine advance, society will confront new ethical dilemmas at the nexus of public health policy and individual choice. The Master of Arts in Bioethics at the College of Global Public Health provides a strong philosophical foundation for navigating these urgent questions.

Upcoming Events

Center for Bioethics: December MA Information Session & Virtual Open House

New York University’s Center for Bioethics
MA Information Session
Virtual Open House

Friday, December 1st 2023
1:00 pm — 2:00 pm EST

Please join us on December 1st at 1:00 pm EST for an information session and a q&a about New York University’s MA in Bioethics! Hear from faculty and members of our administrative staff who will discuss the logistics of the program, application requirements, and admissions process.
 
Applications are now open for the Spring 2024 and Fall 2024 semesters. All students are automatically considered for the Bioethics Departmental Scholarship– no additional application needed!
 

Fall 2023 Colloquium Series: Professor Gerard Vong

 
Fall 2023 Colloquium Series:
Professor Gerard Vong
 
 
Pandemic lottery preparedness: Preparing to ethically, fairly, and systematically allocate scarce resources in response to future infectious disease outbreaks
 
Wednesday, October 25th
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
708 Broadway, Room 801
 
Using the recent COVID-19 and MPox international outbreaks as examples, I argue that one ethically important step in preparing for future disease outbreaks is setting up lottery systems for the allocation of scarce healthcare resources.  Firstly, I summarize and evaluate the philosophical, historical, and public support for fairly and ethically allocating scarce resources by lottery in paradigmatic cases where we are unable to provide those resources to all equally-worthy potential beneficiaries.  Secondly, I argue that future outbreaks are foreseeable to result in such paradigmatic cases due to current public health resource planning and stockpile policy, lack of research and data for new or unprioritized infectious agents, and logistical challenges in outbreak response.  Finally, I argue that lotteries ethically ought to be designed such that (i)  information about them can be transparently shared in different languages with patients with varied heath literacy, (ii) they should be able to respond to changes in the demand and supply of the resource over time, and (iii) they can exclude specific earlier lottery entrants from later lottery allocations in order to promote population-level equity.
 

Gerard Vong (DPhil) is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Bioethics program at Emory University.  He is currently on sabbatical as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.  Prior to joining Emory, Dr. Vong was a faculty fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, an assistant professor of philosophy at Fordham University, and a Jane Eliza Procter fellow at Princeton University. 

Dr Vong’s research focuses on the fair, ethical, and systematic distribution of benefits and risks, with a focus on scarce healthcare goods.  Dr. Vong is also active in pandemic response policy, including co-authoring COVID-19 critical care allocation guidelines for Emory Healthcare’s 11 hospital system and serving as ethics advisor to the CDC’s MPox vaccine policy workgroup.

 

HealthTech Horizons: Innovations for a Healthier World

HealthTech Horizons: Innovations for a Healthier World
OCTOBER 28 AT 2PM ET

This event is hosted by the GPH Alumni Board

For 2023 NYU Alumni Weekend, join us for a panel event featuring seasoned professionals who are bridging the gap between technology and public health. From AI to big data to telemedicine, we explore the game-changing innovations that are shaping the future of healthcare and learn how these two worlds intersect to revolutionize disease prevention and create healthier societies globally.

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How Global and Environmental Health has helped UN agencies and health ministries

Public Health Connectors :

How Global and Environmental Health has helped UN agencies and health ministries in 100+ countries address complex health emergencies since 2015

Hosted by the NYU GPH Global and Environmental Public Health Program
Presented by Dr. Chris Dickey
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Time: 11:00 – 12:00
Location: NYU GPH, 708 Broadway, 8th Floor, Room 801

Since January 2015, NYU GEH has led unique, regional, and timely courses that connect field professionals with MPH and other students to develop context-specific, data-driven, human-rights based programs for immediate implementation. The courses have run 25 times – at least once every year since the initial launch – in New York, Accra, Kathmandu, Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Nairobi, Asuncion, and online with a total participant count of over 1,200 individuals.

Registration Required.

Snacks will be provided.
Open to the NYU Community!

Questions should be directed to the NYU GPH Global and Environmental Public Health Program

AI for Healthy Cities: Harnessing Data Science for Cardiovascular Health

AI for Healthy Cities: Harnessing Data Science for Cardiovascular Health
SEPTEMBER 19 AT 12PM ET

This event is hosted by Novartis Foundation, Foreign Policy & the NYU School of Global Public Health

Join us for a series of conversations on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 78) to explore how artificial intelligence and data science can be harnessed to address cardiovascular population health in urban environments around the world.

Register Here!