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2023 Harvard Surgical Ethics Conference

The Surgical Ethics Working Group is hosting a free virtual conference over four weeks in September.

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MBE Degree Program

Save the date: applications for the 2024-2025 program cycle will open October 1, 2023. Sign up to receive email updates and reminders.

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Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia

Learn from international experts how various ethical norms, laws, and regulation affect biomedical innovation and health care delivery.

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Research Ethics Consortia: Biotechnology and Society

Join Insoo Hyun, PhD and Lauren Walsh, JD for this free and interactive webinar series with the Museum of Science, Boston.

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Organizational Ethics Consortia

Discuss the ethical dimensions of policies, procedures, resource allocation decisions, and social movements with other bioethicists and health practitioners.

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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics

Stay informed. Subscribe to our newsletter. The Center for Bioethics brings together the rich intellectual resources across Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, along with colleagues and institutions worldwide, to help ensure that scientific progress, medical therapeutics, and health care practices are developed hand-in-hand with reflection upon the profound moral questions raised by advances in the life sciences and biotechnology. 

Our mission is executed through education, research, and service, with programs that prepare the next generation of practitioners and leaders in bioethics, conduct normative and empirical research to address bioethical questions in clinical care, research, and public policy, and engage the public in understanding and addressing ethical aspects of health care and biotechnology.

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Ed Hundert, Anthony Breu, and Becca Brendel
| August 31, 2023

2023 Beecher Prize in Ethics Teaching Winner

The 2023 Henry K. Beecher Prize for Ethics Teaching was awarded to Anthony Charles Breu, MD.

2023 Beecher Prize in Ethics Teaching Winner
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More Clarity Needed Around Embryo Model Definitions

Insoo Hyun, PhD, discussed embryo model definitions in a recent article for Genetic Engineering &...

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Medical Insurance Reviews and Patient Privacy Concerns

Peter Q. Harris, MD, Melissa Abraham, PhD, MSc and Bruce Cohen, MD, PhD published a new paper titled...

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In-Person Events Are Back

Create Your Bioethics Passport at Our Next Event on Campus

Earn a stamp every time you attend an HMS Center for Bioethics event in person with our new Bioethics Passport program. Stamps increase your chance of winning raffle prizes at the end of the semester. The box of Bioethics Passports will be available at every in-person event.

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Join a Global Audience Answering Bioethical Questions

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

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The HMS Center for Bioethics works to ensure that values and ethics are always part of medical training, laboratory and clinical research, and professional education. Your contribution supports this mission globally, nationally, and locally. Make a one-time or recurring gift today.

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