Debate: The Ethics of Tuberculosis Challenge Trials
On Wed. Jan 12 there will be a live online debate on the bioethics question, If wild type tuberculosis challenge studies would be useful, would they be ethical to conduct? The debate will feature debaters from the The Rikers Debate Project:
- Jerusalem Demsas, Policy Writer at Vox.com
- Kaamilya Finley, Senior One Team Ambassador, Deloitte & Rikers Debate Project Fellow
- Charles Hopkins, President, National Action Network – PG County, Maryland & Rikers Debate Project Fellow
- Brian Patrick, Activist, Artist, & Rikers Debate Project Fellow
and will be judged by a panel of experts, policy makers and interested parties including myself:
- Gabriel Bankman-Fried, Director, Guarding Against Pandemics
- Camilla Broderick, Community Navigator for Midtown Community Court & Rikers Debate Project Fellow
- Ann M. Ginsberg, Deputy Director, TB Vaccines Global Health
- Phil Krause, Former Deputy Director, FDA/CBER/OVRR
- Jake Liang, Chief of Liver Diseases Branch & Deputy Director of Translational Research, NIDDK, NIH
- Larissa MacFarquhar, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Matt Memoli, Director, Clinical Studies Unit, IRP’s Laboratory of Infectious Disease, NIAID
- Jerry Sadoff, Head of Early Development, Crucell Vaccine Institute, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
- Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
- Nikki Teran, Senior Biosecurity Fellow, The Institute for Progress
- Matthew Yglesias, Founder, Slow Boring
Should be fun. Admission is free and you can register for attendance here.