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The scholars at The Hastings Center examined diverse ethical, legal, and social questions in biological science, medicine, and health, including dementia, community health care, housing policy for aging populations, xenotransplantation, genome editing, sociogenomics, neuroscience, and assistive technologies for people with disabilities. Projects led by the scholars on these topics aimed at improving scholarly and public understanding of issues at stake in them, developing recommendations for policy, and training of students and early career scholars. Research methods included work group-based analysis, literature reviews, and qualitative research. Products included two reports published as supplements to the Center's journal, the Hastings Center Report, 33 articles in scholarly journals, four book chapters, seven commentaries or opinion pieces, and 54 talks and lectures for scholarly and nonscholarly audiences. Researchers also spoke with journalists at national and international media outlets, served on review panels, boards, and advisory committees for hospitals, private foundations, federal agencies, professional societies, and scholarly journals. The research was supported by grants and donations from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Dana Foundation, the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust, the Greenwall Foundation, the Macy Foundation, the Donaghue Foundation, and private donors.

B) IN 2023, THE HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, A BIOETHICS JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER, FEATURED DISCUSSIONS OF MASS INCARCERATION'S HEALTH IMPACTS, CHRONIC DISTRESS AMONG CRITICAL CARE CLINICIANS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, ADVANCE CARE PLANNING, GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE, HOME CARE IN THE UNITED STATES, AND MANY OTHER TOPICS IN MEDICAL CARE, HEALTH POLICY, BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY. SIX ISSUES OF THE REPORT APPEARED, CONTAINING A MIXTURE OF SCHOLARLY ANALYSIS AND EXPERT COMMENTARY. THE REPORT ALSO PUBLISHED TWO SUPPLEMENTS, ON THE ETHICAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIOBEHAVIORAL GENOMICS (WITH THE MARCH-APRIL ISSUE), AND ON REBUILDING TRUST IN HEALTH CARE AND SCIENCE (WITH THE SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER ISSUE). THE REPORT WAS DISTRIBUTED BY JOHN T. WILEY AND SONS, PRIMARILY IN ONLINE FORM, TO OVER 10,800 LIBRARIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS (WITH ROUGHLY 6500 SUBSCRIBING THROUGH THE WILEY ONLINE LIBRARY AND THE REST GAINING ACCESS THROUGH DATABASES). THERE WERE ROUGHLY 600,000 DOWNLOADS OF ITEMS IN THE JOURNAL. ETHICS AND HUMAN RESEARCH, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO ISSUES IN THE ETHICS AND REGULATION OF RESEARCH ON HUMAN SUBJECTS, OFFERED SIX ISSUES IN 2023 ON TOPICS IN MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, INCLUDING AUTISM RESEARCH, UNDERREPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN PHASE I TRIALS, TRUST AND HIV-TRANSMISSION TRIALS, AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ETHICS. E&HR WAS ALSO DISTRIBUTED BY WILEY AND SONS, PRIMARILY IN ONLINE FORM. ROUGHLY 6,300 INSTITUTIONS AND LIBRARIES SUBSCRIBED TO E&HR, AND THERE WERE ROUGHLY 7,500 DOWNLOADS OF ITEMS IN THIS JOURNAL. HASTINGS BIOETHICS FORUM, THE HASTINGS CENTER'S STRICTLY ONLINE PUBLICATION, FEATURES SCORES OF COMMENTARIES ON BIOETHICS TOPICS IN THE NEWS.