Ethox Centre
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social
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
Ethox colleague Professor Patricia Kingori features in @theoxfordmail.bsky.social today with @torchoxford.bsky.social talking about #April #Fakes Day!
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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.
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March 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2504661...
We are hiring!
The Ethox Centre is seeking a Senior Researcher to work on the Wellcome-funded SHARE project (Environmentally Sustainable Health Research).
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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...
Job Opportunity: Senior Researcher SHARE Project
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
March 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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...
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...
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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
Find out more about this year’s events, organised by @ethoxcentre.bsky.social in collaboration with @torchoxford.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/nLfNx67
March 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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
Find out more about this year’s events, organised by @ethoxcentre.bsky.social in collaboration with @torchoxford.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/nLfNx67
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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
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/LgQJWYZ
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social | @torchoxford.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
Find out more 👉 buff.ly/LgQJWYZ
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social | @torchoxford.bsky.social
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
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🌟 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...
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...
April Fakes Day 2025: the complexities of fakery & how it shapes our understanding of reality
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🌟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...
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...
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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
Read more 👉 buff.ly/a7Zbjkr
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
Read more 👉 buff.ly/a7Zbjkr
#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 Ethox Blog by Mike Parker discusses recent @nature.com paper 'Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease #epidemics'
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/blog/ethical...
Ethical Challenges in the use of AI for Infectious Disease Epidemiology: A Double-Edged Sword
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March 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
#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 Ethox Blog by Mike Parker discusses recent @nature.com paper 'Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease #epidemics'
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/blog/ethical...
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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
@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.
www.psi.ox.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social @psioxford.bsky.social
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...
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.
www.psi.ox.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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...
www.psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opi...
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.
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link.springer.com/journal/4059...
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Monash Bioethics Review | Volume 42, supplement issue 1
Volume 42, supplement issue 1 articles listing for Monash Bioethics Review
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February 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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.
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link.springer.com/journal/4059...
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link.springer.com/journal/4059...
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...
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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February 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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...
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
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...
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...
Ethical questions of pregnancy management following a positive NIPT/PND result
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#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...
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...
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-...
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
Global group of scientists find advances in AI can help prepare the world for the next pandemic
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February 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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-...
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
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...
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
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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...
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...
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...
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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February 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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...
Commentary by @ethoxcentre.bsky.social colleagues Sapfo Lignou & James Hart, published in Journal of Medical Ethics
#bioethics
jme.bmj.com/content/earl...
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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
February 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
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?...
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?...
GCHU Public Seminar: Can polarisation be addressed through community dialogue?
YouTube video by Kellogg College, University of Oxford
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February 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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?...
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?...
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...
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...
Conditions for informed broad consent
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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...
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
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
January 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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
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 - 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...
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
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📣 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...
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...
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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...
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?
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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...
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/events/ethox...
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/...
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...