Sep 2, 2021

VOICE OF AMERICA: Warren Binford, a law professor at the University of Colorado, was part of a remote, entirely digital network of volunteers who, she estimates, assisted 1,400 Afghans in getting out. "The State Department had been put in charge of an evacuation from a warzone," she said, contending that as a result the military did not have the full command of the operation. They learned to "pivot and adapt on a constant ongoing basis", she said.

Aug 25, 2021

WALL STREET JOURNAL: “It’s total chaos,” said Warren Binford, a law professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities who has been working on evacuation efforts. “What’s happening is that we’re seeing a massive underground railroad operation where, instead of running for decades, it’s literally running for a matter of hours, or days.”

Aug 31, 2021

THE HASTINGS CENTER: This question sparked debate recently after the leak of an internal memo of the North Texas Mass Critical Care Guideline Task Force, that proposed using patients’ Covid-19 vaccination status as a factor to assign intensive care beds. Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, and co-authors conclude that with surges occurring across the U.S. and in many other countries, it is tempting to blame individuals who prefer not to be vaccinated despite vaccine access. But using vaccination status as a first-order triage consideration is not clinically justified at present, since it should not be assumed that vaccinated patients have a survival advantage once they require mechanical ventilation, at least until more information is available.

Aug 30, 2021

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: One of many recommendations by Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH and co-authors is that specialty societies, major health care systems, public health departments and officials, and private sector health information technology partners should work together to leverage AI to assist in developing better prognostic tools for critical illness in general, as well as for disease- and injury-specific situations, and to develop systems for tracking the effects of using these algorithms on key measures of equity.

Aug 31, 2021

BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL: Lisa Bero, PhD and co-authors found that the pharmaceutical industry contributes considerable funding to the fertility sector and conclude that the conflicts of interest created by these payments, together with the commercial influences associated with the private model of service provision, are likely to contribute to the overuse of fertility services.

Aug 17, 2021

DISABILITY EQUITY COLLABORATIVE: "The DEC Research workgroup conducted this study during the COVID-19 pandemic—making the work considerably more challenging,” said CBH faculty Dr. Megan Morris. “However, it also created an important opportunity to shine a bright light on the gaps in health care accessibility for people with disabilities."

Aug 9, 2021

CHALKBEAT COLORADO: "A common misconception is that because the vaccines are currently under an emergency use authorization, that they are experimental, which is false," said Daniel Goldberg, JD, PhD. “If it’s gone through the process to get emergency use authorization, it is an approved intervention. In terms of the amount of data that we have, these are the most evaluated therapies we’ve ever used anywhere."

Jul 30, 2021

FOX31 DENVER: Many people have asked: Is it legal for employers or the government to require the shots? Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH says, “The answer to your question, are vaccination mandates legal, is yes. They are clearly legal under U.S. law and under the U.S. Constitution, and that has been litigated repeatedly and essentially always comes up with the same answer.” He said things have been that way since the early 1900s, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld smallpox vaccine mandates.

Jun 30, 2021

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Jul 2, 2021

Over the last year, CHWE partnered with CBH on a webinar series focused on ethics and occupational health. Through the Work & Play in a Pandemic Series, we have educated over 1,000 individuals on a variety of meaningful topics directed to a wide range of audiences including vulnerable worker populations; collegiate athletes; COVID-response workers facing moral distress; vaccine guidance for employers; and the future of OSH in light of the November 2020 election.

Jun 26, 2021

WINNER OF 2020 AJPA EDUCATION JOURNALISM AWARD: Center Director Matthew Wynia encourages medical schools to incorporate the Holocaust into bioethics training. "There is no topic you can imagine in bioethics today that has not been influenced by the actions of doctors, nurses and other health scientists during the Holocaust." This interview, Hard Lessons, by Andrea Jacobs from the Intermountain Jewish News, won the 2020 award for best education journalism from the American Jewish Press Association.

Jun 26, 2021

BOULDER DAILY CAMERA: Something remarkable has been happening in a pocket of rural Southwestern Colorado. Bruce Evans is chief of the Upper Pine Fire Protection District in the city of Bayfield, which is 18 miles east of Durango in La Plata County. Both his 33-person crew and the approximately 12,000 people they serve in the Four Corners region look to their chief — who has 37 years of experience in emergency services —as a trusted leader. Which is why 200 people came when the district hosted what was reportedly one of the first COVID-19 vaccine clinics at a firehouse in the state earlier this year.

Jun 10, 2021

DENVER GAZETTE: Matthew Wynia and State Rep. Andres Pico share their viewpoints. Wynia concludes, Maybe the idea of a sweepstakes just doesn’t appeal to you. Fair enough, but it does appeal to some who’ve been on the fence. Achieving herd immunity is hard, and one approach won’t work for everyone. But herd immunity is our ticket out of this pandemic, just like it was for diphtheria, polio and smallpox — each of which was once a worldwide scourge. We need to work all angles to get people vaccinated.

Jun 14, 2021

KUNC: Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, explains, “If we want to maintain herd immunity over time, we're going to have a mandate at some point,” he said. “Or if you don't want a mandate, you try and incentivize people to internalize that positive external benefit of herd immunity.” While cash incentives might be a coercive carrot, Wynia said, a workplace mandate is a very coercive stick.

May 26, 2021

KUNC COLORADO: The state has announced it will hold five $1 million drawings for Coloradans who've been vaccinated against COVID-19. The idea is to encourage more people to get the shots, but who are these dollar incentives really targeting? Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, believes, "it's people who do not have strong objections to vaccines-they just never got around to doing it."

May 25, 2021

ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS: Warren Binford, JD, Ed.M, is the W.H. Lea Endowed Chair for Justice in Pediatric Law, Ethics and Policy. She recently united with 17 Latinx illustrators to create a book titled “Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz.”

May 24, 2021

BBC NEWS: "Children arriving to the United States are being needlessly traumatized due to the long-standing failure of the US to build a modern border management system that recognizes 21st Century migration trends," said Warren Binford, JD, Ed.M.

May 20, 2021

Warren Binford, JD, Ed.M., was elected as a fellow to the American Bar Foundation. "The Fellows is a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities." Only one percent of attorneys receive this distinction.

Professor Binford also just completed chairing the International Law Association's first study group on children's rights in the organization's 148-year history. The group, including experts from the Hague, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and professors from half a dozen universities, produced a detailed 121 page report on enforcing the rights of children in migration.

May 14, 2021

Tess Jones, PhD was chosen to receive the 2021 Foundations of Doctoring Curriculum Faculty Choice Award. The award is given each year to a faculty member who contributes at multiple points throughout the Foundations of Doctoring Curriculum. Congratulations Dr. Jones, as your faculty peers recognized, "your willingness to help at a moment's notice, your enthusiasm for teaching, and your ability to advocate for your learners."

May 4, 2021

CNN INTERNATIONAL: Children's rights scholar Warren Binford is interviewed by Rosemary Church on CNN International, talking about her new book, Hear My Voice / Eschucha Mi Voz, which amplifies the voices of the children coming to the US and helps tell their stories so that we can ensure that we do a much better job going forward of getting and keeping children with their families.