Oxford's Seena Fazel presented RAPSS at UTMB on Aug. 6, a model estimating the probability a prison suicide risk-management plan reopens within 90 days. Built and tested on more than 1,100 people in English prisons, it is meant to guide safety planning, not replace clinical judgment.
UTMB runs the largest prison health system in the U.S. Olugbenga Ojo, executive director of the Center for Correctional Healthcare Excellence, on the roughly 24,000 people 55 and older in Texas prisons, telemedicine that started in the early 1990s, and what students learn at Hospital Galveston.
Dr. Miriam Rich presented a paper at the American Association for the History of Medicine conference
Dr. Rich presented a paper at the American Association for the History of Medicine conference in Buffalo, NY.
Dr. Campo-Engelstein presented Gendered Risk in the Development of Contraceptives Targeting Sperm at the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Conference. Her presentation examined the gendered assumptions that shape contraceptive research and development, with a particular focus on sperm-targeting contraceptives. By exploring how risks and responsibilities are distributed in contraceptive innovation, her work contributed to ongoing discussions about equity, ethics, and reproductive justice in bioethics.
Consumer DNA tests can estimate ancestry, suggest disease risk and expose unexpected family relationships. Alberto Aparicio, PhD, traced how ELSI research grew alongside the Human Genome Project and where those questions stand now, in a preview of BHH 6396, offered Wednesdays this fall.
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