Ethox Centre

University of Oxford to explore history's fakers and fraudsters Oxford University will expose history’s fakers and fraudsters during a week-long cultural programme this Aprils Fool's Day.

Ethox colleague Professor Patricia Kingori features in @theoxfordmail.bsky.social today with @torchoxford.bsky.social talking about #April #Fakes Day!

www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2504661...

Job Opportunity: Senior Researcher SHARE Project

We are hiring!

The Ethox Centre is seeking a Senior Researcher to work on the Wellcome-funded SHARE project (Environmentally Sustainable Health Research).

www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/job-opp...

This year’s April Fakes Day focuses on the fakers, fraudsters, and those they fooled.

Find out more about this year’s events, organised by @ethoxcentre.bsky.social in collaboration with @torchoxford.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/nLfNx67

Congratulations to Angeliki Kerasidou and Patricia Kingori, as part of the TORCH’s Medical Humanities Research Hub, who have been shortlisted for a Vice-Chancellor's Award in the Research Culture category!🎉

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/LgQJWYZ

@ethoxcentre.bsky.social | @torchoxford.bsky.social

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

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...

April Fakes Day 2025: the complexities of fakery & how it shapes our understanding of reality

🌟April Fakes Day 2025🌟 Engage with the complexities of fakery & how it shapes our understanding of reality

Events from April 1-8 in Leeds, London & Oxford, including museum activities and film screenings. @torchoxford.bsky.social
Details ⤵️⤵️
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/april-f...

A paper from PSI Oxford and the @ethoxcentre.bsky.social has underlined the ethical questions raised by new #metagenomic techniques in clinical practices. It aims to provide a practical guide for clinicians, and further develop ethics guidance in the future 🥼

Read more 👉 buff.ly/a7Zbjkr

Ethical Challenges in the use of AI for Infectious Disease Epidemiology: A Double-Edged Sword

#Ethical Challenges in the use of #AI for Infectious Disease Epidemiology: A Double-Edged Sword
New Ethox Blog by Mike Parker discusses recent @nature.com paper 'Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease #epidemics'
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/blog/ethical...

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.

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.

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...

Monash Bioethics Review | Volume 42, supplement issue 1 Volume 42, supplement issue 1 articles listing for Monash Bioethics Review

New special issue of the Monash #Bioethics Review - edited by @Ethox_Centre colleague Tess Johnson - brings together a collection of articles focusing on the theme of Antimicrobial Resistance #AMR and social #justice.
🔽🔽
link.springer.com/journal/4059...

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...

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...

Ethical questions of pregnancy management following a positive NIPT/PND result

#Ethical questions of #pregnancy management following a positive NIPT/PND result

New Ethox Blog from Adeline Perrot & Ruth Horn, following project workshop focused on NIPT and ethical issues in relation to pregnancy management

www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/blog/ethical...

Global group of scientists find advances in AI can help prepare the world for the next pandemic

Researchers from Ethox have contributed to a Nature paper outlining how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform the landscape of infectious disease research & improve pandemic preparedness. The paper puts particular emphasis on safety, accountability and ethics.
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...

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

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...

Job vacancy at the Institute of Medical Ethics
ime-uk.org/events-and-n... #job #vancancy #ethics

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...

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...

This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, learn more about Associate Professor Federica Lucivero's work on the Sustainable Big Data Conversation on @ethoxcentre.bsky.social website 👉 https://buff.ly/3CCbS7U

GCHU Public Seminar: Can polarisation be addressed through community dialogue? YouTube video by Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Can polarisation be addressed through community dialogue?

This question was discussed in a Global Centre on Healthcare & Urbanisation seminar last month.

Our colleague Caesar Atuire introduced #antitheses.net & a 'community palaver' approach to discussing disagreement.

youtu.be/bps8pXjHBqY?...

Conditions for informed broad consent

New Ethox Blog Post: Conditions for informed broad consent

We are really pleased to share the latest Ethox blog by University of Oxford Medical student Kaesha Marantz to introduce her essay - awarded runner-up in the 2024 Andrew Markus Prize for Medical Ethics.

www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/blog/conditi...

Should #Medicine Be Colour Blind? Mason Institute #Webinar

Ethox colleague Mehrunisha Suleman will explore tensions between striving for #equity & challenges of implicit bias, systemic racism, & methodological imprecision

🗓️4 Feb 2025 1pm

↘️Details
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
#bioethics

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

📣 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...

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

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...

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...

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/...

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Our collaborators KCL Global Health & Social Medicine are #recruiting for Post-doctoral Research Associate to work on the Wellcome-funded SHARE project (Environmentally Sustainable Health Research)
Deadline: 30 Jan 2025
#sociology #bioethics
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/102766-...

Oxford Global Health & #Bioethics International #Conference – Call for Abstracts Open!

The #OGHB Conference takes place 8-9 July 2025, bringing together the global bioethics community to exchange ideas & build collaborations.

Submission deadline: 5 February 2025
www.oxjhubioethics.org/conference

Are you passionate about #museums and how they need to change?

Our amazing partners Culture& are #recruiting for a Post Doctorial Researcher to work on the @ANTITHESES Reimagining Museums theme.

Deadline: 31 Jan 2025
Details and application info 👇

www.cultureand.org/news/post-do...

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.

Hello - the Ethox Centre has just joined BlueSky! We are a multidisciplinary #bioethics research centre based at @ox.ac.uk . Our core activities include bioethics education, research, and the provision of ethics support. Visit our website to find out more about our work www.ethox.ox.ac.uk