HASTINGS CENTER INC
21 MALCOLM GORDON ROAD, GARRISON, NY 105245555 www.thehastingscenter.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: TO ADDRESS FUNDAMENTAL ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN THE AREAS OF HEALTH, MEDICINE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT AS THEY AFFECT INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETIES.

THE HASTINGS CENTER'S RESEARCHERS INVESTIGATED A DIVERSE RANGE OF ETHICAL, LEGAL, AND POLICY QUESTIONS RELATED TO SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND HEALTH. PROJECTS ADDRESSED ADVANCES IN GENETICS INCLUDING GENE EDITING AND GENETIC TESTING; CARING FOR AGING POPULATIONS; DISABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY; AND PUBLIC DELIBERATION ON AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES. WE PRODUCED ANALYSIS AND FORMULATED ADVICE ON THESE QUESTIONS, WHICH WE DISSEMINATED TO SPECIALIST AND NON-SPECIALIST AUDIENCES THROUGH THE PUBLICATION OF 2 BOOKS, 3 SPECIAL REPORTS OF HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, MORE THAN 60 ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND COMMENTARIES. IN ADDITION, WE OFFERED OVER 80 TALKS AND LECTURES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES, AS WELL AS DOZENS OF INTERVIEWS WITH JOURNALISTS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA OUTLETS. OUR RESEARCHERS ALSO SERVED ON NUMEROUS ADVISORY COMMITTEES, INCLUDING FOR WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE, NEW YORK STATE, MARCH OF DIMES, AND THE EDITORIAL BOARDS OF DOZENS OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS. THIS RESEARCH WAS SUPPORTED BY GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND DONATIONS FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDERS, INCLUDING THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES, ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION, RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION, DONGAHUE FOUNDATION, AND PATIENT-CENTERED OUTCOMES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (PCORI).

IN 2019, THE HASTINGS CENTER REPORT, A BIOETHICS JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER, FEATURED DISCUSSIONS OF PEDIATRIC ASSENT, E-HEALTH, SURROGATE DECISION-MAKING, ACCESS TO INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS, CITIZEN SCIENCE, HERITABLE GENOME EDITING, 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 ONE SUPPLEMENT, ON THE PSCYHOSOCIAL IMPACTS OF GENETIC INFORMATION (WITH THE MAY-JUNE ISSUE). THE REPORT WAS DISTRIBUTED BY JOHN T. WILEY AND SONS, PRIMARILY IN ONLINE FORM, TO 12,700 LIBRARIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS (WITH ROUGHLY 6700 SUBSCRIBING THROUGH THE WILEY ONLINE LIBRARY AND 6000 GAINING ACCESS THROUGH DISTRIBUTION SERVICES), AND TO ROUGHLY 360 INDIVIDUALS. ROUGHLY 460,000 ITEMS WERE DOWNLOADED. ETHICS AND HUMAN RESEARCH, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO ISSUES IN THE ETHICS AND REGULATION OF RESEARCH ON HUMAN SUBJECTS, OFFERED SIX ISSUES IN 2019 ON TOPICS IN MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, INCLUDING SINGLE-IRB REVIEW, HEALTHY-VOLUNTEER RESEARCH, AND ADOLESCENTS' CAPACITY TO CONSENT TO BIOBANK RESEARCH. E&HR WAS ALSO DISTRIBUTED BY WILEY AND SONS, PRIMARILY IN ONLINE FORM. ROUGHLY 5700 INSTITUTIONS AND LIBRARIES, ALONG WITH 150 INDIVIDUALS, SUBSCRIBED TO E&HR. HASTINGS BIOETHICS FORUM, THE HASTINGS CENTER'S BLOG, FEATURES SCORES OF COMMENTARIES ON BIOETHICS TOPICS IN THE NEWS.

The Visiting Scholar Program offers short-term independent research residencies for scholars, practitioners, and students. In 2019, we welcomed visitors from 13 countries by hosting 41 postgraduate, faculty, and other professionals -- a 58% increase over 2018 -- and 5 undergraduate scholars. The Visiting Scholar Program also hosted three workshops in 2019 for visiting groups of students and faculty. The public affairs and communications department is responsible for informing and engaging diverse audience in the research, publications, public events, and other activities of The Hastings Center. To achieve these goals, the department prepares and distributes press releases, pitches stories to selected journalists, works with research scholars to develop and place op-eds and other commentaries, produces a weekly newsletter, edits the Hastings Bioethics Forum blog, uses social media for promotion and audience engagement, oversees the website (including developing all content), produces videos of Hastings events, and helps plan and manage those events. In 2019, The Hastings Center strengthened its commitment to public engagement. It conducted an external review of communications activities, which recommended that the Center expand its effort for audience engagement. That recommendation resulted in the hiring of a chief communications officer in June 2019. In 2019, the newsletter went to about 13,000 people. Bioethics forum blog had 100,000 page views and about 4,000 subscribers to an email alert about new posts. The Centers website had 719,000 page views. The Centers Twitter audience grew to 11,100 followers.

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