Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota

Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota

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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.

Operating as usual

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.

01/24/2025

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.

01/20/2025

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].

01/17/2025

Don't miss out— Register Now to Secure Your Spot!

BTHX 5100 | Introduction to Clinical Ethics
Explore the moral nature of the healthcare professions and common values-based conflicts in clinical practice.
-Open, respectful and interdisciplinary/interprofessional class discussions.
-This course has been approved for Interprofessional Education (IPE) credit for health professions students.

Learn more about this course and enroll today! https://bioethics.umn.edu/courses/bthx-5100-0

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Africa has a new agrifood systems strategy and accompanying commitments - MyJoyOnline 01/17/2025

Amos Laar, MPH, MA, PhD, FGA, is quoted in the article: “Africa has a new agrifood systems strategy and accompanying commitments.”

Africa has a new agrifood systems strategy and accompanying commitments - MyJoyOnline Heads of State, Ministers of Agriculture, Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the African Union’s 55 member states, and several food systems actors convened for a three-day Extraordinary Summit of the African Union in Kampala, Uganda, from January 9–12, 2025.

01/16/2025

Please join us for our upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds webinar on environmental justice with Keisha Ray, PhD.

🗓️Friday, Feb. 7
⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.

Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/a162

Gain insights into navigating the complexities of ethical dilemmas. Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs.

Learn more about the webinar and register at https://bioethics.umn.edu/events/environmental-injustice-clinical-and-ethical-implications-our-unhealthy-environments

01/15/2025

Join us for the Consortium's and the UMN Research & Innovation Office's 2025 Research Ethics Day Conference titled "The Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research." The virtual webinar will be aired live from 9am to 3pm CT on Wednesday, March 5. Register today! An incredible roster of national experts has been assembled to weigh in on an important topic for today's researchers and scientists. https://consortium.umn.edu/conference/annual-research-ethics-day-conference-ethical-use-artificial-intelligence-research-challenges

01/14/2025

Now Enrolling for Spring 2025
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].

01/10/2025

Don’t miss out—Spring registration is live!

BTHX 5100 | Introduction to Clinical Ethics

Explore the moral nature of the healthcare professions and common values-based conflicts in clinical practice.

Open, respectful and interdisciplinary/interprofessional class discussions.

This course has been approved for Interprofessional Education (IPE) credit for health professions students.

Learn more about this course and enroll today! https://bioethics.umn.edu/courses/bthx-5100-0

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

01/06/2025

Spring enrollment is here!
BTHX 5100 | Introduction to Clinical Ethics
Explore the moral nature of the healthcare professions and common values-based conflicts in clinical practice.
-Open, respectful and interdisciplinary/interprofessional class discussions.
-This course has been approved for Interprofessional Education (IPE) credit for health professions students.

Learn more about this course: https://bioethics.umn.edu/courses/bthx-5100-0

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

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623 Children's Rehabilitation Center, 426 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN
55455

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Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
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