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The Ethox Centre is a multidisciplinary #bioethics research centre that aims to improve ethical standards in healthcare practice and in medical research | Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford | @ox.ac.uk

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Ethox Centre@ethoxcentre.bsky.social · 2y ago

The closing date for applications for the 2025 Caroline Miles Scholarship is 4 weeks today - 22 April! This is a fantastic opportunity for post-doctoral and early-career researchers to spend 1 month visiting the Ethox Centre #bioethics. Details: www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship

Apply to the Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship, awarded to early career post-doctoral researchers to visit the Ethox Centre

ethox.ox.ac.uk

Tess Johnson@drtessjohnson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Paper out now! We explore ethical questions with new clinical uses of metagenomics for diagnosis. We look at data sharing, consent, incidental findings, and more! Blogpost and link to article here: www.psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opi... @ethoxcentre.bsky.social @psioxford.bsky.social

New paper outlines ethical issues in clinical metagenomics

This week, University of Oxford researchers published the first paper mapping clinical ethics questions raised by new metagenomic techniques for diagnosing disease in clinical practice.

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Ethox Centre@ethoxcentre.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mapping clinical #ethics questions raised by new metagenomic techniques for diagnosing disease in clinical practice - new paper by Ethox colleagues @tessjo.bsky.social, Stephanie Johnson & Zeb Jamrozik with Prashanth Ramachandran, University of Melbourne www.psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opi...

New paper outlines ethical issues in clinical metagenomics

This week, University of Oxford researchers published the first paper mapping clinical ethics questions raised by new metagenomic techniques for diagnosing disease in clinical practice.

psi.ox.ac.uk

Ethox Centre@ethoxcentre.bsky.social · 2y ago

Attitudes About NIPT Routinisation: A Report from a Qualitative Study of 20 UK Healthcare Professionals’ Ethox colleague Pete Young provides insights about decision making for non-invasive prenatal testing, raising questions for how routinisation might be evaluated. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Attitudes About NIPT Routinisation: A Report from a Qualitative Study of 20 UK Healthcare Professionals’ - Health Care Analysis

All healthcare professionals (HCPs) have responsibilities to provide information to patients according to the duties found within UK decision-making guidance and with regards to theory about the docto...

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Ethox Centre@ethoxcentre.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Ethox Caroline Miles #Scholarships are open for applications! Awarded to post-doctoral or early-career researchers, scholars spend 4 weeks with Ethox pursuing a #bioethics research project . Scholarship up to £2,500. Deadline: 22 April 2025. www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship

Apply to the Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship, awarded to early career post-doctoral researchers to visit the Ethox Centre

ethox.ox.ac.uk

Ethox Centre@ethoxcentre.bsky.social · 2y ago

Generational #smoking bans: inegalitarian without disadvantage? Commentary by @ethoxcentre.bsky.social colleagues Sapfo Lignou & James Hart, published in Journal of Medical Ethics #bioethics jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Generational smoking bans: inegalitarian without disadvantage?

In his article, Johannes Kneiss, argues convincingly that a generational ban of smoking need not necessarily disadvantage, or treat as moral unequals, future generations. While a ban need not be inega...

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Ethox Centre@ethoxcentre.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Andrew Markus Visiting Scholarship - applications now open! Awarded to a practising medical #doctor (physician) with an interest in medical #ethics, spend 4 weeks with @ethoxcentre.bsky.social, #scholarship up to £2500. Deadline: 22 April 2025 www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Andrew Markus Visiting Scholarship

Apply to the Andrew Markus Scholarship, linked to Green Templeton College, awarded to practising medical doctors (physician) with an interest in medical ethics

ethox.ox.ac.uk

Romina Rekers@rominarekers.bsky.social · 2y ago

During my stay at the University of Oxford, I will be presenting at the @ethoxcentre.bsky.social seminar. I will talk about how the global and intergenerational challenges posed by infectious diseases reshape the duties to protect the human right to health. www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/events/ethox...

Ethox Seminar - Why should the global and intergenerational challenges posed by infectious diseases reshape the duties to protect the human right to health?

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Ethox Centre@ethoxcentre.bsky.social · 2y ago

New article from Ethox colleagues James Hart, Sapfo Lignou, Mark Sheehan in #Bioethics asks whether #environmental #sustainability fits within the scope of #healthcare #resource #allocation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Environmental sustainability and the limits of healthcare resource allocation

Recent literature has drawn attention to the complex relationship between health care and the environmental crisis. Healthcare systems are significant contributors to climate change and environmental...

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Alan Regenberg@aregenberg.bsky.social · 2y ago

While discussions about the effects of LLMs on health equity have been largely cautionary, authors of this paper highlight 3 significant opportunities: improving the detection of human bias; creating structured datasets relevant to health equity; and improving equity of access to health information.

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics@bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

Using Large Language Models to Promote Health Equity - Authors include our Kadija Ferryman | NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....