Jamie Webb
@JamieDWebb
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PhD @CentreTMFutures @EdinburghUni. Did bioethics at @PandemicEthics_ & @nyugrossman. @FulbrightPrgrm & @TeachFirst alum. Made @SusanMacbeth. Man Utd fan.
Edinburgh
Joined December 2012
Excited to share that my paper, 'Healthcare Resource Allocation, Machine Learning, and Distributive Justice', has been published in the American Philosophical Quarterly.
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Abstract. The literature on the ethics of machine learning in healthcare contains a great deal of work on algorithmic fairness. But a focus on fairness has not been matched with sufficient attention...
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DEADLINE EXTENDED! The Postgraduate Student Committee are looking for new members. NEW deadline: December 17th. Apply here:
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We are recruiting! The Postgraduate Student Committee (PSC) consists of an interdisciplinary group of postgraduate students working in bioethics, broadly defined of healthcare practitioners, lawyers,...
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🚨 Deadline Extension🚨 To ensure everyone has ample opportunity to contribute, we are extending the submission deadline to January 31, 2025! Join us for a vibrant discussion on global AI supply chains. @Jausl00s @srrreal @aaptiinstitute @tattlemade
🚨 Call for Contributions!🚨 We're thrilled to announce "Mapping Data Work", a 2-day workshop in📍Bengaluru, India (March 2025)! A collaboration between @ivir_uva, @aaptiinstitute & @tattlemade Explore the material, social & epistemic dimensions of data work in AI. 🧵1/4
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In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research https://t.co/rEmlD6lFgE
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Nature - In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
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🌟The Call for Abstracts for the 2025 Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference #OGHB is open! https://t.co/WOX1QUafrs Submission Deadline: 5 Feb 2025 Conference: 8&9 July 2025, Oxford & Online Hope to see you there! @GblBioethics
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I think distributive justice is a relatively underexamined topic in the ethics of AI in healthcare literature, but it’s really important! Hopefully this paper can be useful for ML engineers and healthcare workers, as well as bioethicists, in thinking through some of these issues.
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The paper considers the relationship between ML in healthcare and distributive justice with a focus on four aspects of algorithmic design and deployment: the choice of target variable, the model's socio-technical context, the choice of input variables, and dataset membership.
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This is a last push to get responses to this important survey. Please complete and share. Thanks #nhsnurses
https://t.co/YNCebeTyP2
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What better way to celebrate the holidays than applying to join the PSC? Get great experience in organising bioethics events, including PGBC: probably the best postgrad bioethics conference in the world. Drop me a message if you have any questions!
WE ARE RECRUITING! The Postgraduate Student Council of the IME are looking for new members! We promise we’re a fun and friendly bunch; committed to supporting the postgraduate bioethics community. Applications to close on 31st Jan!
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Applications for abstracts to our national Institute of Medical Ethics conference on the 10th & 11th of July 2025 are open! Further details: https://t.co/ULQpQxi6Qg…
#IME #Conference #Medicalethics
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UK doctors who have returned from Gaza have described the situation as “absolutely dire,” recalling blood soaked beds, emaciated colleagues and patients, and doctors forced to perform brain surgery on children without basic surgical equipment. @bmj_latest
https://t.co/U37iPIxQXf
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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.
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🌟Congratulations to GLIDE colleagues on new article in Monash Bioethics Rev: Alterations in care for children with special healthcare needs during the early COVID-19 pandemic: ethical & policy considerations ⬇️ https://t.co/rK7Cbynz0H
@Ethox_Centre @bermaninstitute @NUS_CBmE
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Assisted dying bill – why public deliberation must be considered [all health /healthcare policies have imp ethical values and conflicts at stake. i stay on here to increase public awareness and deliberation. there should be more in PD global health ] . https://t.co/N8MPQFt2CQ
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This year we ran England's first Citizens' Jury exploring public views on assisted dying. Here's how our work can help to inform next stages of the UK assisted dying bill.
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My study is live - please share widely😊
We are conducting a study looking at how AI should be implemented in healthcare in Wales. 🖥️ If you live in Wales or work as a healthcare professional in Wales, then we want to hear from you. https://t.co/GD1hthVhYi
@Valuein_Health @DHCWales @BCS_South_Wales @lshubwales
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Happy anniversary to the world's best bean ❤️
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The scholarship provides: the full cost of tuition fees £12,000 in payments given directly to you for accommodation, study and living costs £2,500 towards the cost of your travel to the UK, Visa and NHS surcharge (for healthcare) https://t.co/d6Lp9LJ4h0
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We offer Masters scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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BREAKING: The University of Edinburgh is opening a redundancy process for staff, saying National Insurance changes introduced in the Budget have created a "multi-million pound increase" to its salary bill.
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