Past Events Archive
2019
Ethical Issues in Public Health Crises
- Debra DeBruin, PhD, University of Minnesota
Infectious disease epidemics, natural disasters and terrorist attacks can overwhelm existing public health and healthcare systems. These crises raise a complicated array of ethical issues, from rationing scarce resources to protecting…
Tough Choices in Home-based Care
- Edward Ratner, MD, University of Minnesota
Discussions of bioethics typically focus on care in the hospital, while ethical conflicts occur in all settings. For families and community-based organizations, there are frequent ethical conflicts in home-based health care. These include…
Consent for Genetic Testing: Challenges with the informed component
- Bonnie LeRoy, MS, CGC, University of Minnesota
What can genetic testing tell us? Do we learn different information from clinical testing vs. direct to consumer testing? Do we know what happens to our information? What are the risks and benefits? Not all genetic testing is the same and…
Vaccine Refusal: Ethical obligations of the health care community in the face of fraudulent science, social media misinformation, and mistrust
- Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, University of Minnesota
We are in the midst of the worst measles epidemic since it was declared to be eradicated in 2000. There is greater vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents, namely due to a perception that the risk of vaccine preventable diseases is…
Unproven "Stem Cell" Interventions in the U.S.: Ethical, Scientific, & Regulatory Concerns
- Leigh Turner, PhD, University of Minnesota
Health researchers have studied “stem cell tourism” to clinics in countries such as China, India, Mexico, Thailand, and the Ukraine but more recently, studies have found hundreds of clinics here in the U.S. selling unapproved and unproven…
Healthcare Legal Partnerships (HLPs): Advancing health equity by incorporating legal services in healthcare delivery
- Eileen Weber, DNP, JD, BSN, PHN, RN, University of Minnesota
We know that what impacts health lies largely outside of normal healthcare delivery. We call these the negative social determinants of health. One in six people with low incomes need legal help to overcome these determinants and improve…
2018
Opioid Addiction in America: Leveraging Community Expertise
- Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, MAT, University of Minnesota
- Matthew Filner, PhD, Metropolitan State University
This presentation identified ways that inter-professional community-engaged research, scholarship, and practice can be useful in combating opioid use disorder. Participants learned: (1) To articulate the benefits of inter-professional…
Opioid Addiction in America: Reframing Public Perceptions and Policy Solutions
- Sarah Gollust, PhD, University of Minnesota
The speaker discussed what is known about public perceptions of the opioid crisis and particularly what policy solutions Americans find acceptable. She also discussed the roles of the media in reinforcing certain policy narratives and the…
Opioid Addiction in America: Where do we stand?
- Dana Farley, Minnesota Department of Health
How did the opioid epidemic become a major killer in Minnesota? More Minnesotans die from opioid overdoses than in traffic accidents! In this healthiest of states, some Minnesota groups have the highest rates of opioid overdose deaths in…
2017
Food Justice
- Michelle Horovitz, JD, Appetite for Change
- Princess Titus, Appetite for Change
The cofounders of Appetite For Change, a nonprofit organization based in North Minneapolis told their stories of how they came to the work of Food Justice. Michelle, a recovering Public Defender with a Bioethics degree and Princess, a…