The  Duke Initiative for Science & Society is hosting an upcoming Dinner Dialogue that might be of interest to students, postdocs, and faculty within your department. Would you please consider sharing this event information with your network? Through our Dinner Dialogue series, we hope to spark meaningful and ongoing conversation about the broader ethical implications of scientific and technological progress at Duke and in the world.

Wednesday September 23^th from 6:30-8:00pm
Topic: Patient privacy in an open science era
with Dr. Jessie Tenenbaum
Summary of the topic: We are living in an increasingly data driven world, with policies increasingly promoting data sharing. What data sharing is ok? When is it too much? Is deidentification a “reassuring myth?” Does sensitive data (e.g. psychiatric disorders, substance abuse data) change the answer? Is it ok to share it with government agencies to analyze for improved population health? What about companies to analyze for improved patient outcomes? Well it depends…

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