🚨🚨We (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy) are hiring up to two new faculty members (Assistant Professors) in #HealthPolicy! We are specifically looking for researchers interested in #populationhealth (highlighted below) -- a key growth area for us. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/152931

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…

I feel like I keep reading all the same things about Lykos - but here's something I haven't seen yet in this context: money blinds to minimize bias in running clinical trials. Interesting discussion from Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law folks. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

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.

In oncology, we care for children with horrific diseases that occur without cause. Sadly, childhood cancer is a part of life. SCHOOL SHOOTINGS on the other hand aren’t a part of life anywhere else in the world & their very existence is a damning indictment of our country.

🚨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!