Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications
The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy researches and influences policy on today’s most pressing ethical issues.
The center focuses on conducting cutting-edge multidisciplinary research on perennial and emerging ethical issues arising in clinical practice and in biomedical research in a changing healthcare environment. Our research informs our teaching, clinical practice and contributions to the development of health and science policy at the local, national and international levels.
Our staff is dedicated to creating a shared, sustainable, intellectual environment in which all stakeholders can critically reflect on and respond to ethical challenges in healthcare and biomedical research.
Submissions from 2023
Using Visual Arts Education and Reflective Practice to Increase Empathy and Perspective Taking in Medical Students, Sina Rezaei, Andrew Childress, Bhavika Kaul, et al.
Vaccine Access, Equity and Justice: COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination, Lois Privor-Dumm, Jean-Louis Excler, Sarah Gilbert, et al.
Vaccine-Linked Chemotherapy Improves Cardiac Structure and Function in a Mouse Model of Chronic Chagas Disease, Kathryn M Jones, Elise N Mangin, Corey L Reynolds, et al.
Vaccines and Therapeutics for Immunocompromised Patients with COVID-19, Shmuel Shoham, Carolina Batista, Yanis Ben Amor, et al.
Validation of a Process for Shared Decision-Making in Pediatrics, Douglas J Opel, Holly Hoa Vo, Nicolas Dundas, et al.
Views of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer and Their Oncologists Toward Patients' Participation in Genomic Research, Amanda M Gutierrez, Jill O Robinson, Robin Raesz-Martinez, et al.
Wastewater Analysis of Mpox Virus in a City With Low Prevalence of Mpox Disease: an Environmental Surveillance Study, Jeremiah Oghuan, Carlos Chavarria, Scout R Vanderwal, et al.
Wastewater Pandemic Preparedness: Toward an End-To-End Pathogen Monitoring Program, Justin R Clark, Austen Terwilliger, Vasanthi Avadhanula, et al.
Wastewater Sequencing Reveals Community and Variant Dynamics of the Collective Human Virome, Michael Tisza, Sara Javornik Cregeen, Vasanthi Avadhanula, et al.
Withdrawing Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Against a Family’s Wishes: Three Permissible Scenarios, Trevor M Bibler and Asma Zainab
Submissions from 2022
A Comparison of US Medicare Expenditures for Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis, Jennifer M Kaplan, Jingbo Niu, Vivian Ho, et al.
A Cross-Sectional Study of the Prevalence of Anal Dysplasia among Women with High-Grade Cervical, Vaginal, and Vulvar Dysplasia or Cancer: The PANDA Study, Samantha Batman, Craig A Messick, Andrea Milbourne, et al.
Actionable Tumor Alterations and Treatment Protocol Enrollment of Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Refractory Cancers in the National Cancer Institute-Children's Oncology Group Pediatric MATCH Trial, D Williams Parsons, Katherine A Janeway, David R Patton, et al.
Addressing Human Trafficking as a Public Health Issue, Frances Recknor, Erica Di Ruggiero, and Elsabeth Jensen
AI in the Hands of Imperfect Users, Kristin M Kostick-Quenet and Sara Gerke
A Mixed-Methods Protocol To Develop and Validate a Stewardship Maturity Matrix for Human Genomic Data in the Cloud, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Ge Peng, and Mildred Cho
A Novel, De Novo Intronic Variant in Pogz Causes White-Sutton Syndrome, Ashanta Merriweather, David R Murdock, Jill A Rosenfeld, et al.
An ultra-brief screening scale for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: The OCI-CV-5, Amitai Abramovitch, Jonathan S Abramowitz, Dean McKay, et al.
An Updated Assessment of 43,110 Patients Enrolled in the Childhood Cancer Research Network: A Children’s Oncology Group Report, Austin L Brown, Pagna Sok, Michael E Scheurer, et al.
A Phase I/II Trial of Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab in Children and Young Adults with Relapsed/Refractory Solid Tumors: A Children's Oncology Group Study ADVL1412, Kara L Davis, Elizabeth Fox, Emasenyie Isikwei, et al.
A Role for Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 in the Generation of Epileptic Spasms in a Murine Model, Carlos J Ballester-Rosado, John T Le, Trang T Lam, et al.
Assessing Smoking Status and Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Machine Learning Approach among Veterans, Alice B S Nono Djotsa, Drew A Helmer, Catherine Park, et al.
Association of Gulf War Illness with Characteristics in Deployed vs Non-Deployed Gulf War Era Veterans in the Cooperative Studies Program 2006/Million Veteran Program 029 Cohort: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, Linh M Duong, Alice B S Nono Djotsa, Jacqueline Vahey, et al.
A Validation Framework for Somatic Copy Number Detection in Targeted Sequencing Panels, Raghu Chandramohan, Jacquelyn Reuther, Ilavarasi Gandhi, et al.
Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Nationwide, Insured Population, Jennifer L Caswell-Jin, Maryam N Shafaee, Lan Xiao, et al.