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Center receives major grant for joint program with Woodruff Health Sciences

By Kathy Kinlaw, Arri Eisen, John Banja. Center for Ethics faculty focusing in bioethics are pleased to announce a two-year grant of $250,000 from the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Fund to support the deepening of our work in bioethics. The grant allows us to create a new collaborative model through a Program in Bioethics in which the Center for Ethics and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center are key partners.

Kinlaw joins CDC’s flu shot ethics team

By Hillary Winn. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked four ethicists, including Emory Center for Ethics Director Kathleen Kinlaw, to aid in the development guidelines to determine who should and should not be given the flu vaccine in light of the recent shortage.

The ethicists, who have already discussed the issue over two conference telephone calls, will try to develop an ethical framework for distribution.

Though the CDC will make the ultimate decision, the ethicists will discuss whether or not there are any ethical “lessons that can be applied to this practical question,” said Kinlaw, who is also the director of the Center for Ethics’ program in health sciences ethics.