Medicine can be an enormous force for good—and that very power raises difficult issues. One issue is figuring out who gets access to that healing power, and why, and when. Organ donation offers a ...

This article was originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 29, 2017. Ryan F. Holmes is the assistant director of health care ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. The ...

At the height of the Great Recession, psychologist Amy Krosch noticed a troubling trend: people of color seemed to be getting much harder hit than the white population on a number of socioeconomic ...

The pandemic put a spotlight on the challenges that health systems face when deciding how to allocate scarce resources during a time of crisis. To better understand differing opinions on this issue, ...

Researchers argue that, in some situations where machine-learning models are used to allocate scarce resources or opportunities, randomizing decisions in a structured way may lead to fairer outcomes.

JMW focus on the "QALY trap" in their critique of CEAs. I also have a more fundamental problem with QALY estimates in CEA or quantitative decision analysis. Even when estimated by means of Time Trade ...

Among the many failures in America’s early COVID-19 disaster response, unprepared federal authorities mismanaged the allocation of emergency medical equipment as the pandemic mushroomed. Decisions by ...

Cape Town’s recent drought brought into sharp relief how people behave and the choices that they make when resources become scarce. The South African city was teetering on the brink: a sustained dry ...