Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

05/15/2025

[Harvard–CUHK Joint International Symposium]
🌏Global Bioethics: Engaging Asian and Western Perspectives

Join us for a dynamic dialogue 💬as voices from Asia and the West 🤝come together to address today’s pressing global challenges in bioethics:
• Pluralism and cross-cultural bioethics decision-making
• Bioethics at cultural and religious frontiers
• Navigating AI, big data, and the future of care

Ready to help shape the future of global bioethics?
🔗 Learn more & register today!
https://bioethics.med.cuhk.edu.hk/harvard-cuhk-joint-international-symposium/

07/03/2024

07/03/2024

Here are some highlights from this year's Harvard Ethics Consultation Skills Course! Thank you again to all our faculty, staff, participants, and guest speaker Keisha Ray, PhD, for making this a fantastic course. This was our largest group yet, with 121 participants from 16 different countries, 19 different states, and 53 different institutions.

07/02/2024

Applications are open for our new Online Fellowship Certificate Program! Apply here: https://bit.ly/HMSCfB-CertificateApp2024

Participants in the program will engage in a wide-ranging exploration of , beginning with its historical foundations and theoretical frameworks, gaining familiarity with theories of , rights-based and communitarian perspectives, , , and virtue . The program includes feminist approaches, a discussion of meta-ethics, and the role of ethics committees in case consultation. Key topics in clinical ethics, ethics and public health ethics include, for example, research oversight in the developing world, rationing, reproductive ethics, end-of-life care, organ allocation, and medical aid in dying. Specialized topics such as , artificial intelligence ( ), and are also covered. Additionally, the program addresses critical issues like racism, ableism, research scandals, and compassionate use of investigational medicinal products.

05/23/2024

Harvard kicked off its affinity graduation celebrations with its second annual celebration of graduates with disabilities in a Monday morning ceremony at the Student Organization Center at Hilles.

05/13/2024

We are launching a new, part-time, synchronous academic program to be conducted entirely . Designed for those with a serious interest in , the program is structured to further participants' knowledge in the history, philosophical and social science underpinnings, and contemporary practice of bioethics. Participants will be exposed to major ethical theories and modes of bioethical analysis, while addressing a wide variety of topics in research ethics, clinical ethics, and public health ethics. Sessions will be led by Dr. Thos Cochrane, and other distinguished faculty from across Harvard University and other leading institutions. Applications open on July 1, 2024! Learn more:

Applications will open July 1, 2024, and close September 15, 2024.The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Online Certificate in Bioethics is a part-time, synchronous academic certificate program, conducted remotely with an optional opportunity for a two-day in-person experience in Boston.* Designed for tho...

04/17/2024

Deadline alert! ⚡️ Submissions are due by 5pm ET on April 22nd. All Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine students are eligible. Visit our site for details: https://bit.ly/HMS-Beecher24