The Penn Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy is pleased to announce our next 2 in-person conflict management workshops: Thursday-Sunday August 14-17, 2025 and Thursday-Sunday September 11-14, 2025.  The 4-day workshop will be held at the Perelman School of Medicine … Read More

In medicine, suffering matters: encountering suffering and helping patients cope with, and navigate through suffering, are key functions of healthcare. In addition, the concept of suffering plays an important role in many high-stake areas of medical ethics including medical aid-in-dying … Read More

Regenerative medicine using stem cells stands at the forefront of innovation in health care, offering the potential to treat various medical conditions. Yet, despite the promise of this science, recent federal policy changes have created new barriers to funding, conducting, … Read More

From pandemics to climate change, the world faces deeply interconnected and critical challenges. Yet efforts to confront these crises are increasingly obstructed by a powerful, organized force: rising opposition to science, often driven by political and ideological agendas. This erosion of … Read More

You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds, hosted by the Clinical Ethics Education Council at the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. This live virtual event will feature a compelling discussion led by Dr. Kate LeMasters! As always, the … Read More

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates tobacco products, including e-cigarettes or vapes. In recent years, there have been debates about whether e-cigarettes should be promoted as safer than combustible tobacco and what role the FDA or other policymakers … Read More

This presentation examines current models of child participation in health care decision making, with a focus on the AAP’s recommendation of child assent, revealing the ways in which child assent may actually cause pediatric health care professionals (HCPs) to make … Read More

Join us for a discussion on grief and the challenges of accessing end-of-life care in the United States, featuring Jennifer Senior, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author known for her writing on grief, and Dr. Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., an … Read More

This session will focus on the ethics of advocacy in research and policy. Advocacy groups, from patients to shareholders, play an increasingly influential role in shaping which questions are asked, how resources are allocated, and whose voices are heard in addressing … Read More

We are pleased to invite all junior scholars working in pediatric research ethics, gene therapy ethics, or clinical trial ethics to register for this year's Early Career Scholars Meeting, presented by the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Division of Medical … Read More

In the nineteenth century as hygiene became a measure of a nation's level of civilization, the efforts of weaker nations, like the Ottomans Empire, to modernize public health were undermined by the Western powers that criticized their inadequate public health … Read More

Columbia University’s new Master of Science in Bioethics / Master of Social Work dual degree program brings together top-tier professional education in bioethics and social work, to provide extraordinary synergies and unique professional opportunities. This new dual degree prepares social workers to … Read More