The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Columbia Division of Ethics have been funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to lead a five-year expansion of their coordinating hub for research on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genomics. The Center for ELSI Resources and Analysis (CERA) received a nearly $9.4 million grant following a competitive renewal process.
How can ELSI center justice in science to promote to transformative outcomes? Since its inception, ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) research has been pivotal in centering ethical considerations in the development of emerging science and technologies. The ELSI landscape continues to grow alongside technological and scientific developments; however there is little known on how the integration of ELSI expertise and knowledge impacts the trajectory of scientific inquiry and outcomes?
Health research is undergoing a gradual but transformative shift, where patients and study communities no longer want to be passive participants in health research but active collaborators. However, the notion of patients as partners in health research in Africa raises unique challenges spanning both conceptualization and implementation.
The co-evolution of computational processing power and neural network models has made revolutionary developments in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) possible. One type of GenAI, large language models (LLMs), are disrupting a wide range of industries, including healthcare. LLMs are trained on large corpora of natural human language to predict and generate text (in chatbot form) that persuasively conveys contextual and semantic understandings.
