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Former Faculty & Lab Fellow, Jonathan Marks's TED Talk: "Governments Should Fight Corporations, Not Collaborate With Them"

April 12, 2017

In his recent TED Talk, former Faculty and Lab Fellow Jonathan Marks challenges the conventional wisdom that conflict is bad and collaboration are good, by showing how governments can jeopardize public health, human rights and the environment when they partner with industry. Watch video...

Institutional Corruption and Public Health - Ending Institutional Corruption

"Conflicts of Interest in Medicine as a Health Policy Problem"
Genevieve Pham-Kanter, Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, Drexel University

"Trends in the Use of Expedited Drug Review and Approval Designations at the FDA"
Aaron Kesselheim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital (not recorded)

"The Perils of Public-Private Partnerships in Public Health"
Jonathan H. Marks, Associate Professor of Bioethics,...

2015 May 01

Ending Institutional Corruption

(All day)

Location:

Milstein Conference Suite, Harvard Law School (1585 Massachusetts Avenue)

Please join us on May 1-2 for a conference celebrating the end of the Edmond J. Safra Lab on Institutional Corruption. Download...

Jonathan Marks and William English - Integrity, Trust, Political Economy, and Public-Private Partnerships

The October 30, 2013 Lab Seminar, “Integrity, Trust, Political Economy, and Public-Private Partnerships,” was led by Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellows Jonathan Marks and William English. Marks is Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law and Director of the Bioethics Program at Pennsylvania State University. His work focuses on the...

2012 Mar 29

Industry Sponsorship and Health-Related Food Research: Institutional Integrity, Ethical Challenges, and Policy Implications

(All day)

Location:

The Pennsylvania State University

Food Ethics Symposium

(following a lecture by Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corrupton at 7pm on March 28, 2012)

The symposium will explore challenges to the integrity of health-related food research resulting from industry sponsorship of this research. (The focus of the symposium will be research on functional foods–that is, foods marketed for purported health benefits above and beyond basic nutrition). Participants will address a number of issues including...

Jonathan Marks — The Ethical Implications of Industry Interactions in Health-Related Food Research and Nutrition Practice

The November 10, 2010, seminar was presented by Jonathan Marks and Donald Thompson. Jonathan is an Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow and Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law at Pennsylvania State University. Donald is Professor of Food Science at Pennsylvania State University. Jonathan and Donald presented on the influence of the food industry on nutrition research, education, and practice. They provided an overview of the food industry's nutrition-based marketing to consumers, as well as the various...