About the Center for Bioethics

The Center for Bioethics envisions ethical and socially responsible healthcare, public health, and health policy.

Mission

The mission of the Center is to provide leadership in bioethics research and scholarship, education, community engagement and ethics support services to advance:

Compassionate and fair clinical care that respects the dignity of patients and the professionals who care for them.
Public health practice and policy that promotes population health while being socially responsible and worthy of trust.
Health equity and the right of all people to the highest attainable standard of health.

Values

The Center for Bioethics is committed to:

Connecting ethics scholarship to practice, to improve clinical care, public health practice, and health policy.
Using collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to understand and resolve critical but complicated ethical issues related to health.
Recognizing the complexity of health and its determinants, and attending especially to the concerns of underserved and vulnerable populations.
Promoting understanding of Bioethics issues in diverse communities both within and beyond the University.

What We Do

Center faculty produce outstanding original interdisciplinary research and scholarship.
We offer unique interprofessional educational opportunities, to train the next generation of leaders in Bioethics, meet the needs of diverse students at the University, and promote the professional development of the healthcare and public health workforce.
We engage the public to foster informed and productive public discussion and debate about pressing Bioethics issues.
We provide robust ethics support in clinical and public health settings, that includes consultation, education, and the development of guidance and policy.

What We Do

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