Gregory Pence, an American bioethicist, author, public speaker and professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, will give a talk that explores answers to fundamental questions about COVID-19.

What did we do right, and what did we get wrong in fighting COVID-19? How has it changed us? How did it make everyone a bioethicist? How did it reveal inequities in our medical system? Are we likely to do better in the future?

Pence has been involved in bioethics for almost 50 years, often writing about controversial subjects, including human cloning, genetically modified food, alcoholism and addiction, and the COVID-19 pandemic. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and California Senate, given talks in bioethics across the globe, and won every teaching award at UAB. For 33 years, he taught a required course in bioethics to medical students. He has published over 70 essays in national newspapers and magazines. 

This event is made possible by the Fairchild Fund at the USM Foundation.