Ethics Grand Rounds Nov. 20 at Noon: The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments

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NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 12 noon-1 p.m., live in Lipsett Auditorium and on NIH Videocast https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=55161

Topic: 

Ethics Grand Rounds

The Ethics of Randomized Policy Experiments

 

Presenter:

 

Marco Picchio, PhD, Department of Bioethics, NIH Clinical Center

 

Discussant:

Douglas MacKay, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Faculty, Center For Bioethics, UNC

 

Lecture Summary:

Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for assessing medical interventions. In contrast, randomized controlled trials are rarely used to assess social and policy interventions. For example, during COVID-19, few experiments were conducted to assess social and policy interventions to address the pandemic. Is this because randomized policy experiments raise greater ethical concern? Or should we be conducting more randomized policy experiments?

 

Please join us to discuss this important question. 

Live presentation in Lipsett Auditorium and at https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=55161and archived for future viewing.

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