[WSJ] ‘Here is a staggering fact,” marvels John Lechleiter, the CEO and chairman of the drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. “In 1960 the average life expectancy in East Asia was 39. Thirty-nine! In 1990, 30 years later, it was 67. Think about that. Does that explain the Asian economic boom? I think it might [...]

[Mar. 23, 2011, Vancouver]- Student Biotechnology Network (SBN) hosts Genomics, Ethics and Industry Practice panel to explore social, legal and ethical implications of current and future scientific endeavors with BEI’s Executive Director Jennifer Miller. More info here.
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  [Apr. 1, 2011, NC]- BEI’s Director Jennifer Miller speaks at North Carolina Central University School of Law’s  5th annual [...]

2011 Business and Society Relations Program
Presents
“Ethical Concerns in Biotechnology
and Health Care Advances”

January 14, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Anheuser-Busch Briefing Center
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
1615 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
The Business and Society Relations program is partnering with the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies to conduct a year-long series of forums titled, “Issue Series on Emerging Technologies [...]

October 15 & 16, 2010, Princeton University - Open Hearts, Open Minds & Fair Minded Words - A Conference on Life & Choice in the Abortion Debate 
The conference is inspired by President Obama’s call for those on different sides of the abortion issue  to work together where we agree and engage in “vigorous debate” with “open [...]

[NYTimes] — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.

Even as the new coalition government [...]

The Explores Club will host a lecture on disaster and pandemic preparedness ethics with Jennifer Miller, Executive Director of Bioethics International on June 23, 2010 6.30 – 8.30pm. 
Description:  Disasters including pandemics are a real and significant threat … not a question of if, but of when.
Jennifer Miller, executive director of Bioethics International (BEI), will [...]