Events

 Venue: Padova, Italy

The aim of the course is to discuss in depth the ethical requirements of medical research involving children, with specific attention to the still debated issues of informed consent and the standard of minimal risk.  Contents of the course include: epistemological and ethical justification of pediatric research; international legal frameworks on pediatric research; communication skills and strategies in research involving children; biobanks and pediatric research.

 Venue: London, UK

The Society for Genomics Policy and Population Health annual conference and AGM focuses on the inter-related areas of Personalised Medicine and the Communication of Genetic Risk. The morning sessions will focus on personalised medicine, what it means and what is possible, followed by talks on the clinical implications and impact and the psychosocial and ethical considerations. In the afternoon, the sessions will focus on a key public health consideration that arises from personalised medicine, the communication of risk information particularly around inherited genes, where there are likely to be wider implications for consanguineous family members

 Venue: Cambridge

In this talk,  Mark Henderson, Head of Communications at The Wellcome Trust and former Science Editor at The Times will build a case for science to become more central to government and the wider national conversation, but suggests that things will only change when people who care about science get politically active

Venue: Lancaster

Nobel Prize winner Sir John Sulston visits Lancaster to provide a Cesagen public lecture drawing on his vast experience in the fields of ethics and biology.

Venue: Miami, Florida

Genetic advances hold extreme promise, but also the potential to further increase health disparities. Now is the time to address this. Join a forum of stakeholders to learn, identify, and discuss many of the challenges and possible solutions for addressing health disparities in genomic medicine.

Who should attend: 

Physicians, researchers, ethicists, allied health professionals (i.e., nurses, psychologists, etc.), public health specialists, and members of the community. 

 Venue: Cambridge

Discoveries in the field of epigenetics – the study of heritable changes which do not involve alterations to the DNA sequence itself - offer an important contribution to our understanding of human health. This free seminar combines an overview of epigenetics with examples of its application in treating and preventing disease. 

Speakers are: Dr Nessa Carey, Senior Director, Pfizer and author of “The epigenetics revolution - how modern biology is rewriting our understanding of genetics, disease and inheritance” and Prof. Anne Ferguson-Smith, Professor of Developmental Genetics, University of Cambridge.

This is part of a  special  series of seminars from the PHG Foundation who are celebrating 15 years of making science work for health.