Penn Medical Ethics is hiring! Please apply or share with those who might be interested in applying! apply.interfolio.com/152959

Last year, the student responsible for today’s shooting threatened to kill people at school. Because there wasn’t “probable cause,” the FBI made no arrests. Georgia doesn’t have a red flag law, so police also didn’t remove guns from the 13 year old’s home. wsbtv.com/news/local/bar…

New article: Quantitative summary of adverse events in psychedelic studies. We find a favorable safety profile, but with major caveats. Serious adverse events were rare but did occur (esp. in those w/ disorders). We call for improvements to adverse event recording and reporting.

🚨Faculty hiring call!🚨 Come work with our smart, collaborative group of bioethics faculty UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy. Please spread the word! (Contrary to an earlier announcement, expertise in genetics and health equity are areas of interest but not requirements.) apply.interfolio.com/153720

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves. propublica.org/article/epa-sc…

Commonsense gun control - or these horrifying products? A perfect example of government failure leading to individual approaches that could never really address the problem. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Huge congratulations to AEREO member, Molly Klote, OHRP's new director! Dr. Klote brings tremendous expertise and experience into this new role - and a commitment to evidence-based approaches to IRB quality and effectiveness. Excited to see what's coming in this new era for OHRP!

Are you at ASBH 2024? Are you looking for an assistant professor job? Penn Medical Ethics is hiring -- please reach out if you have questions! apply.interfolio.com/153720

Join our MEHP faculty group (Holly Fernandez Lynch, Matthew McCoy, Emily Largent) participating in panel "The Ethics of Patient and Public Engagement in Drug Development, Approval, and Access, in room Regency A (First Floor) at 8:45 am CT. #ASBH24

Interested in the intersection of AI + health policy? Check out this postdoc opening in Ravi B. Parikh's lab, supporting work we're collaborating on. We're especially interested in folks w/ expertise in digital twins and in silico trials. Spread the word! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/136064/po…

Are you a PhD student or recent PhD graduate in a natural or social science subject? Our latest fellowship with Nuffield Foundation is your chance to spend 3 months in Parliament to support its use of research evidence. Apply by Sunday 20 October: post.parliament.uk/nuffield-found…

This Editorial from Holly Fernandez Lynch and Daniel Kramer highlights the need for regulatory clarity to support ethical research in clinical care settings. ja.ma/4f4Epkx

In our new Special Communication, we argue that ethics oversight for #pragmatictrials needs to be fit-for-purpose Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics BSPH / HPM

I will be opening a new spot on my team for an incoming PhD student. Come to Georgia State University • School of Public Health , learn from incredible faculty, and join my team focused on legal/policy/ethical issues relevant to dementia and aging.