Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

10/19/2026

Tonight at 6:30pm EDT: in-person or via livestream!
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Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Join Kahn and other prominent Johns Hopkins faculty for a special 7 Stories Up series about bioethics.

10/19/2026

[ONLINE EVENT] Public Health Ethics and Trustworthiness: Tuskegee Legacy & Ethical Public Health Action. Thurs, Oct 22, 1p EDT. Featuring Dr Nancy Kass, Dr Reed Tuckson, Dr David Augustin Hodge, Sr, w/ Dr Shuntavia James moderating. Link for free registration & info: https://tuskegee.zoom.us/meeting/register/YdzpJYKcRGmXVdCf0iVMOg #/registration

Join the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University for a special CDC-supported Public Health Ethics Training exploring one urgent question: Why do we continue asking communities to trust institutions before requiring institutions to demonstrate trustworthiness?

Designed for healthcare and public health professionals, researchers, students, policymakers, community leaders, and the broader public—especially those committed to improving health and healthcare for Black, Brown, poor, rural, and historically underserved communities. CEU/CME credits available.

Public Health Ethics and Trustworthiness : Tuskegee Legacy, Commemoration, and Ethical Public Health Action CEU and CME credits available Join the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University for a special CDC-supported Public Health Ethics Training exploring one....

10/19/2026

Congrats to our Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, who is among four Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty elected to the National Academy of Medicine | Newswise

This year, four Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an independent, renowned nonprofit organization of leading scientific and medical professionals worldwide.

10/19/2026

Seminar: Paige Nong, PhD, "The Healthcare AI Alignment Problem: Key Gaps Between Patients and Organizations." - Mon, Oct 26, noon. Attend in person, lunch provided, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Room W1030. Link for more info:

Healthcare delivery is shaped by diverse types of AI across the care continuum from scheduling to diagnosis and treatment through billing. However, rigorous evaluation of many of these tools remains thin and implementation is quickly outstripping organizational capacity to govern the technology. Th...

10/16/2026

[EVENT] When Bodies Become Markets: The Ethics of Organ Sales | Part of the 7 Stories Up at SNFL Series | Conversations in Bioethics: Life, Death, and Who Decides at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library - SNFL, NYPL Mon, Oct 19, 6:30-7:30 pm | in-person or via livestream
https://www.nypl.org/events/snfl/adult-programs/bioethics

Why should it be illegal to buy and sell human kidneys? As thousands of patients await life-saving transplants, some argue that financial incentives could increase organ donation, while others warn that organ markets could lead to exploitation and inequity. Join the Berman Institute’s Jeffrey Kahn and Mario Macis to explore the values, assumptions, and ethical tensions underlying this debate.

This conversation is the second of six events in the 7 Stories Up at SNFL Series, Life, Death, and Who Decides?, in-person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on the 7th Floor, 455 Fifth Ave, NY, NY, and online. Link for free registration:
https://events.leapevents.com/event/bioethicsjohnshopkinsoct/tag/nyplwebsite

Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, is the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Join Kahn and other prominent Johns Hopkins faculty for a special 7 Stories Up series about bioethics.

10/16/2026

- Today at 4pm in room 309-310, join us for a book launch event with Jeremy Sugarman and Daniel Sulmasy and the all-new third edition of Methods in Medical Ethics (https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Methods-in-Medical-Ethics-1 | Receive 30% off with discount code: TGUF)

10/16/2026

Global & Policy Program Weekly Roundup | Salmonella, Dirty Secret of Farmed Fish, Call for Raw Milk Ban, Cyclospora, Food Sovereignty in Southeast Asia, Refined Crop Modeling, + 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 ...

10/15/2026

Ethics and Life Sciences Weekly Roundup | Mind Reading, Psychedelics, Attention, Will AI Scoop Your Science? AI Detector, Human Organoids in a Mouse Brain, Embryo Model Challenges, + More

10/15/2026

Freeman Family Ethics for Lunch: Case Presentation & Discussion | "Paid Advocates" | Tuesday, Oct. 20, Noon. Open to all, lunch provided, attend in person: Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Room S101. Link for more info:

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 Noon-1 p.m. Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Room S101 Lunch will be provided. RSVPs are not required, please email Anna Adelman with any questions The patient is a 46-year-old woman with end-stage liver failure secondary to alcoholic cirrhosis. She transferred from OS...

10/15/2026

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | Slash, Prune, or Let It Grow? False AI Homicide Tip, Influence Campaigns, ChatGPT for Teens Worries, Say 'No', Fake Fear? Should We Treat AI Like It Is Human? + Much More