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We Celebrate the Master of Bioethics Class of 2022!

Master of Bioethics Degree Program

One-year, Full-time In Person; and Two-year, Part-time In Person and Online

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Fellowship in Bioethics

A one-year, part-time academic certificate program designed for those with a serious interest in bioethics.

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HMS Center for Bioethics

SubscribeThe Harvard Medical School community is home to world-class thinkers who engage the ethical dimensions of new discoveries and new ways of delivering care. In this time of extraordinary change, with rapid advances in biomedical science, the Center for Bioethics provides a crucial focal point for these discussions.

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Two veterinarians gently hold down a small fluffy dog on its back while a technician uses an ultrasound wand on its stomach while looking at a monitor.
| June 22, 2022

Veterinarians Often Provide Futile Care at a Cost

Faculty members Lisa Moses, VMD, and J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD, along with MBE student Nathan W. Peterson, VMD, have been studying the ethical conflict and moral distress among veterinarians for several years and have new findings on the causes and suggestions for addressing them. This is the first study of this problem in North America.

Veterinarians Often Provide Futile Care at a Cost
Two computer programmers look at a monitor with lines of colorful code.
Data Sharing Initiative Could Help to Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance

Dr. Rebecca Li, 2013 Fellow from the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and...

Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel on Zoom with a lower-third that says Mental Illness & Gun Violence.
Can Mental Illness Explain Mass Shootings?

Associate director for the Center for Bioethics, Dr. Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, joined Dr. Doug...

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The Center for Bioethics sponsors free public lectures throughout the academic year. The George W. Gay Lecture focuses on medical ethics and The Lawrence Lader Lectureship on family planning and reproductive rights.

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