Gene Feder, Professor of Primary Healthcare and VISION Director, has written an opinion piece with colleagues stating that accountability for human rights must guide every collaboration in medicine and science.

In their BMJ publication, Medicine’s reckoning with genocide and crimes against humanity, the authors build the case that in the nearly eight decades after the Genocide Convention in 1948, prevention has advanced in principle but faltered in practice. Many states remain indifferent, but medicine must not. Beginning with genocide, medical and academic leaders have a duty to implement reforms to safeguard the line between valuable collaboration and toxic complicity, break institutional silence, and declare medicine’s commitment to the right to existence and life for all peoples, in all states.