Bioethics and the health humanities are evolving fields, in conversation with medical and social changes. While clinicians, academics, and other healthcare professionals continue to grapple with key ethical questions, such as end-of-life conflicts, ethical research design, and health disparities, the … Read More
Join us for lunch and a wide-ranging discussion of when technology fails us: from the Quebec Bridge disaster to Michael Crichton's Prey to Mary Roach's book, Replaceable You (which is primarily about technology). The event is free and open to … Read More
Pediatric Ethics Grand Rounds (PEGR) creates space for thoughtful conversation about the ethical questions that arise in caring for children and families. Led by the clinical ethics team at Children’s Hospital Colorado, each session brings together diverse perspectives to examine … Read More
Biotechnology is a complex, time-consuming and expensive discipline, and even more so when we consider discovery or deployment of biotechnology at environmental scales. We need to deploy the right tools in the right place, at the right time and the … Read More
Building forth on the Ethics Education Program of UNESCO, this workshop is designed to enhance the educational skills and abilities of ethics teachers. We explicitly invite academics who soon will start, or have just started, teaching ethics. However, experience has … Read More
Co-hosted by the NYU Langone Health Section of Medical Ethics and Transplant Institute. Join us in person or virtually this October! The 2026 NYU Transplant Ethics and Policy Conference convenes leading voices across clinical care, research, law, and patient advocacy … Read More
Revolutionary advances in cell engineering and synthetic biology offer enormous potential benefits, while raising vexing ethical and policy issues. A team at the University of Minnesota has developed SpudCell — the first synthetic cell that can grow and reproduce, built … Read More
The 1986 Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology, revised in 1992 and 2017, promulgated the tenet that organisms altered with recombinant DNA follow the same laws of physics, chemistry, and biology, with no unique risks from rDNA alone. The … Read More
UnityPoint Health - Meriter is excited to host our Fall Ethics Conference: "The Ethics of MAID: Should Wisconsin Have a Medical Aid in Dying Statute?" on November 6th, from 8 am to 12 pm. With Illinois recently legalizing medical aid … Read More
The AI for Health Equity Design Sprint is a two-day, interdisciplinary program bringing together participants from across healthcare, data science, engineering, policy, ethics, and other fields to develop AI-based approaches to real-world healthcare access and equity challenges presented by community … Read More
Join us November 8 through 10, 2026, in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia for our 13th annual Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the grounds and gardens of the University … Read More
The James F. Drane Bioethics Institute at PennWest University, in collaboration with Duquesne University’s Center for Global Health Ethics, will host the Second Duquesne–PennWest Conference on Global Bioethics from November 12–14, 2026, in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. In today’s deeply interconnected world, many of the … Read More
