03/26/2025
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We envision ethical and socially responsible health care, public health, and health policy. Learn more about what we do: bioethics.umn.edu/about-us
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; and
- health equity and the right of all people to the highest attainable standard of health.
03/26/2025
We are on Bluesky now. Follow us: https://bsky.app/profile/umnbioethics.bsky.social
02/24/2025
Fall Semester Registration:
For Degree or Certificate Programs: Registration Opens Thursday, April 10
For Non-Degree & Visiting Students: Registration Opens Friday, May 2
BTHX 5325
BTHX 5620/8620
BTHX 5650
Learn more about the courses: https://bioethics.umn.edu/education/bioethics-courses
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].
02/07/2025
Please join us today at noon (CST) for our health equity webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments,” featuring Keisha Ray, PhD.
🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.
Please register today: https://z.umn.edu/a162
Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates.
02/06/2025
Join us tomorrow on Zoom from 12 to 1 p.m. CST for a free health equity webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments,” featuring Keisha Ray, PhD.
🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.
Please register today: https://z.umn.edu/a162
Gain insights into navigating the complexities of ethical dilemmas. Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs.
01/30/2025
Please join us for our upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, “How Can a Patient Be Dead While Their Heart Still Beats? Addressing Ethical Challenges in the Determination of “Brain Death”/Death by Neurological Criteria” with Margy McCullough-Hicks, MD, and Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C.
🗓️: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025
⏱️: 12-1 p.m. CST
Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/a3zk
Don't miss out on exploring solutions and strategies to promote clinical ethics.
Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs.
01/28/2025
Join us next week for a free health equity webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments,” featuring Keisha Ray, PhD.
🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.
Please register today: https://z.umn.edu/a162
Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates.
01/27/2025
Ruth Mickelsen, J.D., MPH, has been appointed to the MINNPOST board of directors:
MinnPost announces new additions to its board of directors Nine community leaders will join our nonprofit news organization's board, MinnPost's leadership announced Wednesday.
01/24/2025
You are invited to our upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, “How Can a Patient Be Dead While Their Heart Still Beats? Addressing Ethical Challenges in the Determination of “Brain Death”/Death by Neurological Criteria” with Margy McCullough-Hicks, MD, and Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C.
🗓️: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025
⏱️: 12-1 p.m. CST
Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/a3zk
Don't miss out on exploring solutions and strategies to promote clinical ethics.
Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs.
01/23/2025
Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH, was quoted in the Minnesota Star Tribune: “Minnesota marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day against backdrop of Trump’s inauguration.”
Minnesota marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day against backdrop of Trump’s inauguration The federal holiday is “a day for us to remember that we are all one people,” acclaimed journalist and Minnesota native Michele Norris said.
01/23/2025
Sign Up Now for Spring Semester Courses!
BTHX 5100
BTHX 5400
BTHX 5120/8120
Learn more about the courses: https://bioethics.umn.edu/education/bioethics-courses
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].
01/20/2025
Seats fill up fast—don’t wait!
BTHX 5400 | Introduction to Ethics in Health Policy
Explore ethical issues in current and historical health policy.
-Open, respectful and interdisciplinary/interprofessional class discussions.
-This course seeks to frame health policy from a bioethical lens and explore how policy ameliorates or exacerbates our society's profound and structural inequities that impact health.
Learn more about this course: https://bioethics.umn.edu/courses/bthx-5400
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].
| Monday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 4:30pm |
| Friday | 8am - 4:30pm |