Penn Medical Ethics and Health Policy | Alumni Colloquium Series 2022-23

Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)

Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Engaging Americans of African Ancestry in Neuroscience Research - Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr., PhD

Learn More 2025-09-09 12:00:00 2025-09-09 13:00:00 America/New_York Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Engaging Americans of African Ancestry in Neuroscience Research - Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr., PhD Engaging Americans of African Ancestry in Neuroscience Research Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr., PhD Co-Founder, African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) Founded in 2019, the African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) is a groundbreaking collaboration between African American community leaders in Baltimore, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, and Morgan State University that aims to address and rectify longstanding disparities in neuroscience research. AANRI is committed to advancing scientific understanding, promoting racial equity in neuroscience and paving the way for inclusive biomedical research. More detail to follow. Streaming available via Zoom. Registration required - lunch provided. Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom) Penn Medical Ethics

September

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1104 Blockley Hall (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.)

Health Policy Research Seminar: Anjali Adukia, EdD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

Learn More 2025-09-11 12:00:00 2025-09-11 13:00:00 America/New_York Health Policy Research Seminar: Anjali Adukia, EdD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Topic: "Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School Textbooks." Abstract: Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools, applying computational methods–including AI tools–to measure the presence and portrayal of people, topics, and values over time. Despite narratives of political polarization, our findings reveal few meaningful differences between public school textbooks from Texas and California. However, religious school textbooks have less female representation, feature lighter-skinned individuals, and portray topics like evolution and religion differently. Over one-third of pages in each collection convey character values, with a higher proportion in religious school textbooks. Important similarities also emerge: all textbook collections rarely include LGBTQIA+ discussion, portray females in more positive but less active or powerful contexts than males, and depict the U.S. founding era and slavery in similar contexts. Bio: Anjali Adukia is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the director of the MiiE Lab (Messages, Identity, and Inclusion in Education). In her work, she seeks to understand how children from all backgrounds can have opportunities to realize their potential. Adukia's work draws on large-scale data, often deriving data from previously unused and underused sources, including employing artificial intelligence (AI) methods to expand the tools and data used in social science. Adukia has received an NSF CAREER Award in economics (2024-2029), the SREE Early Career Award (2023), the William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award (2018-2023), the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018), and an Institute of Education Sciences grant (2020-2022). Her doctoral thesis won best dissertation awards from APPAM and AEFP. Her research has received awards from Google and has been featured in media outlets such as Scientific American, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Education Week, School Library Journal, and NPR. Adukia is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Economics of Education and Children and Families groups, a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a faculty affiliate of the University of Chicago Education Lab. She is on the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and Journal of Social Computing (IEEE). She co-organizes the annual AI in Social Sciences conference at The University of Chicago. She completed her doctoral degree at Harvard University, with a focus on the economics of education. She has a masters of education from Harvard University and a bachelor of science degree in molecular and integrative physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1104 Blockley Hall (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.) Penn Medical Ethics

October

7

Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)

Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Decentralized Clinical Trials - Effy Vayena, PhD

Learn More 2025-10-07 12:00:00 2025-10-07 13:00:00 America/New_York Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Decentralized Clinical Trials - Effy Vayena, PhD Decentralized Clinical Trials Effy Vayena, PhD Effy Vayena is a Professor of Bioethics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) and renowned expert at the intersection of medicine, data, and ethics. Her work focuses on important societal issues of data and technology as they relate to scientific progress and how it is or should be applied to public and personal health. More detail to follow. Registration Required. Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom. Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom) Penn Medical Ethics

November

11

Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)

Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Neuroscience Research Ethics - Anna Wexler, PhD

Learn More 2025-11-11 12:00:00 2025-11-11 13:00:00 America/New_York Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Neuroscience Research Ethics - Anna Wexler, PhD Neuroscience Research Ethics Anna Wexler, PhD Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy University of Pennsylvania Anna Wexler is the principal investigator of the Wexler Lab, where she studies the ethical, legal, and social issues surrounding emerging technology. She is particularly interested in do-it-yourself (DIY) medicine, citizen science, direct-to-consumer (DTC) health products, online patient communities, neuroscience technology, and alternative neurotherapies. More detail to follow. Registration Required. Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom. Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom) Penn Medical Ethics

December

9

Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)

Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): What Makes Clinical Research Ethical - Christine Grady, MSN, PhD

Learn More 2025-12-09 12:00:00 2025-12-09 13:00:00 America/New_York Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): What Makes Clinical Research Ethical - Christine Grady, MSN, PhD What Makes Clinical Research Ethical? Christine Grady, MSN, PhD Former Chair, Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center Dr. Grady has published widely in the biomedical and bioethics literature and authored or edited several books, including The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics. Dr. Christine Grady's contributions are both conceptual and empirical and are primarily in the ethics of clinical research, including informed consent, vulnerability, study design, recruitment, and international research ethics, as well as ethical issues faced by nurses and other health care providers. More detail to follow. Registration Required. Lunch provided. Streaming available via Zoom. Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom) Penn Medical Ethics