Panelists:
Robert Klitzman, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Bioethics Master’s Program at Columbia University
David Kreutter, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Applied Analytics, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
Danielle Spencer, PhD
Senior Lecturer and Program Director, Narrative Medicine Master’s Program, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
Abstract: The spread of COVID-19 has produced grueling timeframes for drug companies, governments, and health systems to develop and deploy life-saving therapies, policies, and protocols to combat the global pandemic. This urgency exacerbates profound social and ethical questions, particularly related to the mass distribution of vaccines being rushed to market at unprecedented speed. In this conversation, faculty from the Bioethics, Narrative Medicine, and Applied Analytics programs consider complex questions about how we as a society can make equitable decisions and better understand data—from randomized controlled trials to individual experiences—as a form of narrative, and narrative as a form of data, particularly in the case of COVID, a novel pandemic.
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Sponsored by the Columbia University Bioethics Program
Location and Address
Online