About the Annual Bioethics Conference

Currently Suspended Until Further Notice

The Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference (ABC) convenes leaders in the field to explore ethical questions and concerns in healthcare. Held each spring, this conference facilitates conversations among experts, and supports members of ethics committees, health care professionals, bioethicists, administrators, attorneys, and others who are interested in addressing ethical issues.

Past Annual Bioethics Conferences

2021: Biotechnology and the Future of Medicine

2020: No conference was held.

2019: Controlling Death: The policies, practices, and ethics of choosing when we die

2018: Defining Death: Organ transplantation and the 50-year legacy of the Harvard report on "brain death"

2017: The Ethics of "Making Babies"

2016: Social Justice and Ethics Committees in Health Care