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Oxford Population Health @oxpop.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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Oxford Population Health @oxpop.bsky.social · Mar 25

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

Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Mar 25

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...

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

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

Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌟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...

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

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Nuffield Department of Medicine @ndm.ox.ac.uk · Mar 12

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

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Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Mar 7

#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

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Tess Johnson @drtessjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

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

New paper outlines ethical issues in clinical metagenomics

Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Mar 7

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...

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

Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Feb 27

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...

Monash Bioethics Review | Volume 42, supplement issue 1

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

link.springer.com

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Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Feb 26

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 · Feb 25

#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...

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

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

Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

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Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Feb 13

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...

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

Vacancy - IME Membership, Grants & Administration Officer - Institute of Medical Ethics

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Prof Lucy Frith @lucyfrith.bsky.social · Feb 12

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

Are you an experienced, self starter, individual who can join our team to support our members, grant applicants and conference delegates?

ime-uk.org

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Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Feb 12

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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Oxford Population Health @oxpop.bsky.social · Feb 11

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

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Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Feb 5

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?...

GCHU Public Seminar: Can polarisation be addressed through community dialogue?

YouTube video by Kellogg College, University of Oxford

youtu.be

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Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Jan 31

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...

Conditions for informed broad consent

Andrew Markus Visiting Scholarship

Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

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Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Jan 29

📣 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...

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

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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Romina Rekers @rominarekers.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

Ethox Centre @ethoxcentre.bsky.social · Jan 27

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/...

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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