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Open Faculty Position: Now Accepting Applications

We are recruiting an open rank, tenure track/tenured faculty member with expertise in clinical ethics consultation to begin as early as September 2024. This position is within The Department and Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities (IBHH), housed in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.


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In April of 1970, both The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science at Houston and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston sponsored the symposium "Humanism in Medicine" that would help shape and give impetus to the new institute that would emerge at UTMB in 1973. This new institute would be dedicated to medicine and the humanities.


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Dr. Molldrem presents to international pathogen genomics consortium

Mar 9, 2023, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

On February 27th, UTMB Bioethics and Health Humanities Assistant Professor Dr. Stephen Molldrem presented to the Social Science and Ethics Working Group of the international “Phylogenetics And Networks for Generalised Epidemics in Africa” (PANGEA) consortium. His talk was titled “Molecular HIV Surveillance and Cluster Detection and Response Programs in the United States: Understanding the Controversy and its Stakes.” Dr. Molldrem’s remarks addressed the relevance of ongoing controversies in the US over these programs to international stakeholders working in genomic epidemiology.