SACRU webinar «Vulnerability and Healthcare Research Showcase Event»

The interdisciplinary project involved doctoral candidates from seven of the Catholic universities in the SACRU alliance, together with supporting faculty. Over a series of virtual meetings, the doctoral candidates explored the theme Vulnerability and Healthcare from the perspective of their respective research projects, which cover the topics of vaccine trials in developing countries, physician assisted suicide, theologies of prenatal genetic testing, interreligious dialogue on healthcare in conflict zones, boundaries in environmental ethics, the history of monastic medicine, Aristotelian and Thomistic virtues, and social and ecological justice in residential aged care. They will come together at Australian Catholic University’s Rome Campus to finalize and present their results as a panel discussion.

Proceedings will be in English as follows:

• Welcome and introduction to the project
  Associate Professor David G. Kirchhoffer, Director of the Queensland Bioethics Centre at Australian Catholic University, Chair of SACRU Working Group 1.
• On the importance of research into the ethical significance of vulnerability for Catholic health and aged care agencies
  Virginia Bourke, Pro-Chancellor of the Senate of Australian Catholic University, Chair of the Board of Mercy Health Australia, Director of Catholic Health Australia, and Director of Caritas Australia
• Panel Discussion on Vulnerability and Healthcare with Doctoral Candidates
  Lachlan Green (Australian Catholic University)
  Dorothy Goehring (Boston College)
  Gabriel Vidal (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
  Jefferson da Silva Bellarmino (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
  Joana Ramos (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
  Enrico Frosio (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
• With additional input by
  Aitana Juan Giner (Universitat Ramon Llull)
  Geetanjali Rogers (Australian Catholic University)
• Q&A with audience
• Reflections on Vulnerability and Healthcare: a response to the panel
  Reverend Professor James Keenan, SJ, Vice Provost for Global Engagement at Boston College.