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When public discourse is vigorous, informed and principled we can once again believe in the future. Democracy cannot survive, let alone thrive, without an engaged, informed and principled citizenry. The quality of the conversation we engage in today will determine the quality of the life we will have tomorrow. If you want to be a part of this conversation... explore our site.

Government, education and commerce bear a special responsibility for making an engaged, informed and principled citizenry possible. The Pacific Institute brings together these three sectors to address persistent public policy issues through community seminars, town hall panels, summer institutes and regional leadership roundtables.

Participants are typically educators, students, legislators, religious leaders, law enforcement executives, corporate leaders, and concerned citizens of every political stripe. Our goal?  To sustain important public conversations long enough to derive insight from them and inform the policy-making process for the common good.

 

Current programming foci:

• Ethics & Policy in Healthcare
• Genetic Science & Human Dignity
• National Security & Civil Liberties
• Technology in Society

OHSU bioinformatics lecture 10/17/08 oninformatics.com

There were more folks there (30) than any of the sessions they’ve done previously.  In attendance were faculty, grad students, researchers, and the OHUS librarians.   The invitation was an outcome of one of the researchers there attending the NIH conference last October.