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Empowered by Health Apps? Responsibility for Health and Concerns of Justice
March 28, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research is holding a seminar at 12 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, as part of its Brown Bag Seminar Series.
“Empowered by Health Apps? Responsibility for Health and Concerns of Justice”
Presented by Verina Wild, Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society, University of Augsburg
From the event description: Verina Wild is professor of ethics of medicine and director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society at the University of Augsburg. She was trained as a physician and has been researching and teaching bioethics, public and global health ethics, and theories of health justice at universities in Switzerland and Germany. Her special interest is in the relations among the individual, the population, and the social and environmental structures. Her latest book on health inequalities, co-authored with a social epidemiologist, brings public health ethics and social epidemiology together. Since 2018, she has been lead investigator of the project titled META – mHealth: Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects in the Technological Age, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research.
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, 112 Paterson St., New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Online via Zoom
Free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required. View the event listing on the Institute for Health calendar for Zoom access. For more information, contact Nicole Swenarton, Institute for Health, at nswenarton@ifh.rutgers.edu.