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July 22, 2020

Alison Buttenheim Appointed to National Committee on the Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines

Alison Buttenheim has been appointed to an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to provide a framework for the equitable allocation of vaccines for the novel coronavirus.

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July 22, 2020 | New York Post

Kanye West needs help, but mental-health laws make it tough to intervene

The barriers to involuntary treatment — put in place in response to centuries of outrageous abuses done in the name of psychiatric care — are so high that most states require that the person must be an imminent threat to oneself or others to enforce treatment.

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July 21, 2020 | The New York Times

Patient, Can You Spare a Dime?

Hospitals are increasingly soliciting donations from patients, and the patients don’t much like it, a new survey finds.

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Coronavirus Crisis: A Conversation Between Iranian and American Experts

Learn More 2020-08-13 10:00:00 2020-08-13 11:30:00 America/New_York Coronavirus Crisis: A Conversation Between Iranian and American Experts Dr. Jonathan Moreno, one of the world’s leading bioethicists and public health experts, moderates a conversation between unparalled experts from Iran and United States of America. Among the panelists is Iran’s former Health Minister, Dr. Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, who now directs the Health Policy Research Center at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences — one of Iran’s top medical schools. Also speaking is Dr. Hamid Soori, who serves on Iran’s National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce, and Dr. Mohsen Moghaddami, an infectious disease specialist who serves on the city of Shiraz’s coronavirus committee. They will be in dialogue with Dr. Susan Weiss, a world-renowned virologist and co-director of Penn’s brand-new Center for Research on Coronavirus and Other Emergent Pathogens, and Vira Ameli, a doctoral student at Oxford who has been studying Iran’s coronavirus response in the context of broader research she has been doing into public health and disease management in Iran. Register now for this free and historic event. Read the full annoucement.   Online Penn Medical Ethics
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