Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Brochure

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The Center for Bioethics aims to ensure that scientific progress proceeds hand in hand with reflection about the profound moral questions raised by advances in the life sciences.

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Our Mission The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is a gathering place for education, for public discussion, and for research about ethical issues in health care, medical discovery, and the biosciences.

Our programs are created for people who are profoundly curious about life’s big questions. What should we do and why? As scientific and medical possibilities expand, we aim to create a community of scholars, researchers, teachers, and mentors who can partner together to anticipate and address bioethical concerns, lead moral inquiry, and build ethical institutions.

This is our mission. We hope you will join us.

Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS Executive Director

Robert Truog, MD Director

Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD Master’s Degree Program Director

Mildred Solomon, EdD Fellowship Program Director

Edward Hundert, MD Associate Director

Genevieve Saphier, RN, MSN Director of Administration

From left: Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, Robert Truog, Christine Mitchell, Mildred Solomon

Ethics and science need to shake hands. — Richard Clark Cabot, MD, HMS Class of 1892

Expanding Bioethical Knowledge The Center for Bioethics is a place to test and expand knowledge in bioethics. Faculty members and scholars conduct their own empirical and philosophical research.

They also work with clinicians and scientists to integrate

At left: Graduating master of bioethics students share the results of their capstone projects at a spring symposium. Many students conduct research at Harvard-affiliated hospitals alongside faculty members.

RESEARCH

ethics into bench research and bedside care.

Postdoctoral Research Scholars Program During a one- or two-year program, postdoctoral scholars are fully integrated into the community of faculty and students at the Center for Bioethics. Postdoctoral researchers receive mentorship in research, writing, and teaching. Scholars have numerous networking and learning opportunities, with access to all the resources of Harvard Medical School and Harvard University.

“While at the Center, I’ve been fortunate to take part in ethics advisory work for health systems. In the United States, the decisions made by private insurers and health systems significantly determine the terms of access to health care for much of the population. My research will help these organizations play their role in creating a just, healthy society.”

— Kelsey Berry, PhD (left) Postdoctoral Research Scholar, HMS Center for Bioethics

Research Ethics As codirectors of the Research Ethics Program, Spencer Hey, PhD, and Bizu Gelaye, PhD, MPH, organize a monthly research ethics consortium during the academic year, bringing together researchers, ethicists, institutional review board chairs, faculty, and students to discuss ethical challenges in research.

They also identify research opportunities related to bioethics and engage with investigators interested in research ethics work at the Center.

Spencer Hey, PhD

Spencer Hey, PhD, (left) has taught research ethics, biomedical informatics, as well as philosophical theory and methods.

Bizu Gelay, PhD, MPH

Faculty and researchers from across the globe are engaged in multidisciplinary research at the Center. Research spans a variety of specialties and topics, from examining the intersection of ethics and decision-making in medical practice, to surveying physicians’ attitudes on religion, to studies about resource allocation in domestic and global health systems.

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Grants and Research Projects

Responsible Conduct of Research In collaboration with Harvard Medical School’s Office of Postdoctoral Fellows, the Center provides a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) course, jointly facilitated by course directors James Gould, PhD, and Sadath Sayeed, MD, JD, includes presentations by research and administrative officers. These graduate-style seminars for postdoctoral trainees working within Harvard research laboratories focus on ethics as the foundation of good science. The RCR course provides an opportunity to openly and critically reflect on contemporary ethical issues in biomedical research, responsibility and integrity in the professional scientific community, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research.

Sadath Ali Sayeed, MD, JD, HMS assistant professor of global health and social medicine, is faculty codirector of the Responsible Conduct of Research course.

The Center’s RCR course provides an opportunity for post-doctoral trainees to reflect on ethical integrity and professional responsibilities in their research and laboratory work.

Harvard Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee Harvard University’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (ESCRO) Committee is chaired by Center Director Robert Truog, MD. The ESCRO Committee performs ethical and scientific reviews of all research involving the derivation and research use of embryos, human embryonic stem cells, and certain other activities involving human neural stem cells and human gametes. The committee also hosts exploratory seminars on emerging research topics such as the cultivation of human embryos and new developments in bioengineering.

— Robert Truog, MD (right) Director, HMS Center for Bioethics, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesia, & Pediatrics, and Senior Associate in Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital

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“ The use of stem cells has opened possibilities for new therapies, yet there are ethical limits to how we harness this technology. The ESCRO Committee exists to engage in careful scientific and ethical reflection on the challenges and justifiable limits in the translation of stem cell science.”

You have to teach your students as if you might be teaching your own doctor. — Edward Hundert, MD, Associate Director, HMS Center for Bioethics

Teaching Medical Students Ethics education is essential for clinicians, human subjects researchers, and others working with patients, their families, and their communities. The Center is a cornerstone of ethics education and training at Harvard Medical School and its

At left: HMS Dean for Medical Education Edward Hundert, MD, is a leader in developing innovative curricula. Hundert, who is also the Daniel D. Federman, MD Professor in Residence of Global Health and Social Medicine and Medical Education, developed the ethics curriculum for MD students at HMS.

MEDICAL ETHICS

affiliated teaching hospitals.

MD Ethics Education All MD students at HMS study medical ethics and professionalism beginning the first week of medical school and continuing through their course of study.

The MD ethics curriculum was developed and organized by Robert Truog, MD, Center director; Edward Hundert, MD, HMS dean for medical education; and Anthony Breu, MD, who also teaches clinical ethics in the Master of Bioethics Degree

Program. More than twenty Center associates and faculty members, including Louise King, MD, JD, and David Urion, MD, lead ethics seminars for medical students. The Center for Bioethics also supports a bioethics interest group for students, as well as the Beecher Prize in Medical Ethics, awarded each year to the best essay on a topic in bioethics written by an HMS student.

Anthony Breu, MD, HMS assistant professor of medicine and director of resident education at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System (right), organizes and coteaches the multi-year course “Essentials of the Profession� as part of the MD curriculum.

The Lawrence Lader Lectureship The Lawrence Lader Lectureship on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights, established by a gift from advocate and author Lawrence Lader, is an annual public forum focused on medical, ethical, social, and scientific issues surrounding human reproduction.

The inaugural lecture, “Reproductive Freedom for the 21st Century,” was delivered by Faye Wattleton, then head of Planned Parenthood, in 1997.

Henry Hardy Lecture

Top right: Louise King, MD, JD, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the organizer of the annual Lader Lecture.

Bottom right: Northwestern Medicine Associate Professor Katie Watson, JD, one of the Lader lecturers, presented “Conscience, Abortion Care, and the Battle for the Soul of Medicine,” at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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The Henry Hardy Lecture in Bioethics and Public Policy is an annual lectureship founded in 1989 by Regis De Silva, MD, MPA. It is held at a Harvard-affiliated hospital and features experts in bioethics, health care, science, business, law, and policy who address social, cultural, and economic issues in health care.

HMS Teaching Hospitals and Affiliated Institutions 1. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 2. Boston Children’s Hospital 3. Brigham and Women’s Hospital 4. Cambridge Health Alliance 5. Dana–Farber Cancer Institute 6. Harvard Catalyst Clinical Research Center 7. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care 8. Hebrew SeniorLife & Rehabilitation Center 9. Joslin Diabetes Center 10. Judge Baker Children’s Center 11. Massachusetts Eye and Ear 12. Massachusetts General Hospital 13. McLean Hospital 14. Mount Auburn Hospital 15. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital 16. Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System Boston is home to dozens of the world’s leading hospitals, schools, and research institutes.

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Wisdom demands, and democracy requires, not stepping away, but standing up for thoughtful reflection and public engagement. — Mildred Solomon, EdD, Director, Fellowship in Bioethics Program, HMS Center for Bioethics

The Center of a Growing Community On campus and online, locally and globally, Center leaders are committed to cultivating a supportive, inclusive, and diverse community of professionals and members of the public. The shared purpose of this community of thinkers, questioners, advocates, and activists is to sustain one another in engaging the ethical dimensions of our work, as well as ensuring that ethics is considered in the development of health care policies, standards of

At left: Members of the Center community came together to celebrate twenty-five years of the Fellowship in Bioethics Program.

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clinical care, organizational practices, and human research.

Harvard Ethics Leaders Group Harvard Medical School is unmatched in its clinical affiliations. Each of its teaching hospitals has its own ethics committee and consultation service.

Center Director Robert Truog, MD, and Executive Director Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, gather the ethics leaders from each facility for regular

discussions and collaboration. The Harvard Ethics Leaders Group (HELG) is a forum for sharing common concerns, best practices, policy changes, and collaborative research. Many of its more than thirty members mentor ethics students and fellows, teach, and participate in Center activities.

“As cochair of the Dana-Farber Ethics Advisory Committee, I feel very fortunate to belong to the Harvard Ethics Leaders Group.

This community of ethicists has been vital in helping me think through the many ethical issues that face patients with cancer and the clinicians who take care of them.”

— Gregory Abel, MD HMS Associate Professor of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

At left: Clinical ethics leaders and committee members from Harvard’s affiliated hospitals gather monthly to plan, review, and share best practices at HELG meetings.

Community Ethics Committee

Top: Community member Paul McLean (left) served on the CEC, led by Carol Powers, JD (right). The CEC provides valuable input to ethics leaders at Harvard-affiliated hospitals.

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Bottom: The Community Ethics Committee celebrated ten years of work in 2017.

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Bioethical questions are human questions for families, for communities, and for societies as well as for professionals to consider. Through the Community Ethics Committee (CEC), the Center invites lay public participation in understanding and addressing ethical aspects of health care.

Under the leadership of Carol Powers, JD, HMS bioethics fellowship alumna, the CEC is a diverse group of citizens from the Greater Boston area who meet monthly to provide public input and advice about pressing issues including access to health care by undocumented and uninsured immigrants, prescribing medicine to end life, medical futility, and other topics. Reports from the CEC are shared with Harvard’s ethics leaders and are publicly available through the Center’s website.

George W. Gay Lecture The George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics is the oldest endowed lectureship at Harvard Medical School. Established in 1917 by a $1,000 gift from George Washington Gay, an 1868 graduate of HMS, the annual lecture has been given by many of the nation’s most influential physicians, scientists, researchers, and social observers. Past lecturers include Erich Fromm, Elizabeth Kßbler Ross,

Felix Frankfurter, Margaret Mead, E.O. Wilson, Elie Wiesel, Marian Wright Edelman, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof, Dan W. Brock, and many others.

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Annual Bioethics Conference The Center’s annual bioethics conference convenes leaders in the field to explore ethical questions and social justice concerns in health care. Recent conferences have focused on ethical frontiers in biotechnology, medical aid in dying, brain death debates, and health care for incarcerated individuals.

“My background in bioethics informs the work I do with immigrants, asylum seekers, and others who are often marginalized in our culture.”

— J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD (right) HMS Associate Professor of Psychiatry Cofounder, Human Rights and Asylum Clinic at Cambridge Health Alliance

The Center regularly sponsors and hosts public and special events on timely topics in bioethics, with the goal of advancing understanding and collaborating on some of society’s most pressing ethical issues. Forums provide an opportunity for educators and students, faculty and clinicians, and local, national and global stakeholders to provide input, convene in conversation, and develop partnerships that advance the common good.

Left: Danielle Allen, PhD, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, delivered the 2019 Gay Lecture, “Human Choice in a Hypertechnological Age.”

Above: Joli Sparkman Byron shared details of her incarceration experience at the “Behind Bars: Ethics and Human Rights in U.S. Prisons” conference, chaired

by J. Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD (top). Byron now helps individuals reintegrate into the community after being released from jails and prisons.

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Public Bioethics Forums and Special Events

Bioethics education is a valuable toolkit for change in how we learn and think, and in how we improve the world. — Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD, Director, Master of Bioethics Degree Program, HMS Center for Bioethics

Educating Innovators, Scholars, and Leaders The core of an HMS bioethics education is a comprehensive understanding of past perspectives combined with careful examination of the reasons informing our judgments about what is right, good, and fair. In the master’s degree and fellowship programs, students, fellows, and faculty challenge each other to understand more deeply, think more clearly, ethical challenges in science, health, and technology.

Left: Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD, is associate director of the Center and leads the “Foundations of Bieothics” course. She bases her clinical work in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is the director of law and ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior.

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and prepare to lead—formally or informally—in addressing

Master of Bioethics Degree Program A personalized, multidisciplinary approach is the hallmark of the Master of Bioethics Degree Program, which is offered as either a one-year full-time or part-time course of study for students from diverse backgrounds, academic disciplines, professions, and career stages from post-baccalaureate to senior leaders.

The program, led by Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD, combines classroom learning with practical experience to educate current and future leaders in bioethics.

Graduates are prepared to address pressing ethical considerations raised by today’s advances in the life sciences and to anticipate future challenges. The curriculum provides foundational coursework in ethics beginning with philosophical moral theory and including contributions from contemporary frameworks and methods, empirical insights from social science, and considerations of justice and public policy.

The Center for Bioethics draws faculty from many Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals and affiliated institutions. Center collaborators across Harvard, including the University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, add to the unparalleled resources available to students.

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“A year in the MBE program changed me in ways I never could have imagined.

It boils down to tremendous growth as a person and as a professional.”

— Emma Kagel, JD, MBE ’16, HCE-C

Master’s Curriculum electives chosen from course offerings in the program and across Harvard University. Finally, the capstone experience combines a year-long seminar with a mentored project in each student’s area of interest.

“Everyone affiliated with the program and the Center is genuinely invested, not only in the proliferation of knowledge, but in the well-being of all the students.

Faculty members go out of their way to support students both as people and in terms of professional aspirations.” — Adil Menon, MBE ’17, MD Candidate (above)

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Faculty advisors assist students in developing their plan of study which includes core coursework in foundations of bioethics, clinical ethics, research ethics, and health law and policy. The program also includes

Theeb Alkahtani, MBBS, MBE ’18 (left), shares his project, “Cultivating an Ethics Service at the King Saud University’s Medical City,” with faculty member Charlene Galarneau, MAR, PhD, at an annual capstone symposium.

The Capstone Experience The capstone experience combines mentored fieldwork with a weekly seminar to discuss the ethics of bioethics with faculty, peers, and role models. Each master's student is matched with a Harvard faculty advisor and a capstone

mentor, who guide the student’s learning in the classroom, in the field, and as they transition into bioethics practice.

Students present the findings from their year-long capstone project at an annual symposium before graduation.

“The capstone is about pulling it all together, linking tidy classroom thinking and messy real-world problems, and preparing to be a practicing bioethicist.”

— Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, Executive Director, HMS Center for Bioethics

Fellowship in Bioethics Program The HMS Fellowship in Bioethics is a one-year, part-time program designed for those who wish to further their knowledge of the history, philosophical underpinnings, and contemporary practice of bioethics.

Fellows attend a weekly three-hour seminar taught by Fellowship Director Mildred Solomon, EdD, who is also president of The Hastings Center, an independent research institute that explores ethical issues in health, health care, and the life sciences. The fellowship regularly includes lecturers from the Center for Bioethics faculty and other leaders in the field.

The keystone of the fellowship experience is the bond and community that fellows—a diverse group of thought leaders from medicine, nursing, law, social work, and other academic fields—build throughout the year.

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Fellowship Program Director Mildred Solomon, EdD

As scientists and clinicians increase what we can do, it raises new questions about what we should do. — Robert Truog, MD, Director, HMS Center for Bioethics

Continuing Professional Development New discoveries, new tools, and new information about current treatments cause thoughtful professionals to reconsider their own practices. Situated at the nucleus of the world’s largest biomedical community, the Center for Bioethics convenes professional education and events. Our programs support professionals as they develop approaches to new ethical issues that protect the welfare of animals, communities, and the environment, and respect each person’s human dignity.

At left: Participants engage in conversation with the experts at one of many public bioethics forums.

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ethics practitioners of all levels and backgrounds for ongoing

Harvard Bioethics Consortia Each week, students, fellows, faculty, and practitioners convene to discuss one of four areas of bioethics: clinical ethics, research ethics, health policy, or organizational ethics.

Organized by faculty members, each consortia series invites experts to campus with the goals of linking scholarship and practice, and building bioethics capacity at Harvard's affiliated hospitals, across Boston, and beyond.

Clinical Ethics Consortia gather multi-disciplinary members of ethics committees and ethics support services at HMSaffilated teaching hospitals, as well as Center faculty, fellows, and graduate students to discuss health care ethics consults.

Above: Members of the ethics committees at Harvard’s affiliated hospitals join Center students, fellows, and faculty to discuss questions and best practices in clinical ethics consultation.

Research Ethics Consortia examine the ethics involved in planning, conducting, and reporting clinical trials. In addition to analysis of human subjects protections, the consortia provide analyses on a range of ethical issues in human and animal research.

Health Policy and Bioethics Consortia convene international experts from different fields or vantage points to discuss how biomedical innovation and health care delivery are affected by various ethical norms, laws, and regulations.

Organizational Ethics Consortia provide a forum to articulate ethical issues at institutional, systems, and professional levels.

Health care administrators, faculty, and participants learn from each others’ experiences, while building knowledge, cases, and best practices in organizational ethics.

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Charlotte Harrison, JD, (above) and James Sabin, MD, lead the monthly organizational ethics consortia.

Ethical Frontiers in Biotechnology Ethical Frontiers in Biotechnology is a monthly seminar series hosted by HMS Senior Lecturer Insoo Hyun, PhD, a philosopher and international expert on ethical issues in biotechnology. Seminars are structured as a conversation between ethicists and scientists who are leaders on such topics as the

derivation and use of embryonic stem cells, human-animal neurochimeras, brain organoid research, n-of-one clinical trials in genetic research, cultivating and editing human embryos, and emerging issues in bioengineering.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Community members, scientists, and ethicists participate in conversations with presenters in the Ethical Frontiers series, including Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, (pictured at right) who presented his views on clinical trials and stem cell tourism.

Contemporary Authors in Bioethics Every year, this series brings prominent authors to the Harvard Medical School campus to discuss their recent publications in bioethics, on topics in clinical medicine, health policy, social justice, medical anthropology, history, and more.

Nicholas A. Christakis

Jonathan D. Moreno

Dani Shapiro

Charlene Galarneau

Above: Many authors have visited the HMS campus to discuss their books, a few highlighted above.

Left: Karla FC Holloway, PhD, visited HMS to discuss her book Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender and a Cultural Bioethics.

Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course Designed for members of clinical ethics committees and consultation services in health care settings, this annual intensive course focuses on “things you need to know� to participate effectively in addressing ethical questions about individual cases and hospital policies.

Nurses, physicians, social workers, chaplains, patient

representatives, respiratory and other therapists, interpreters, psychologists, risk managers, hospital attorneys, administrators, and trustees learn from faculty and each other about how to respond when they are asked for ethical advice.

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Center Executive Director Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, (above, right) developed the annual Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course, which she codirects with Center Director Robert Truog, MD.

Bioethics is both universal and local. Talking together about what we value most, and why, is so important if we are to understand and respect each other in a connected global community. — Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, Executive Director, HMS Center for Bioethics

International Colleagues and Collaborations The Center for Bioethics works with colleagues around the world to collaborate on educational programs and research, here in Boston, or there—in Brazil, Finland, Japan, Indonesia,

At left: Center faculty members and associates Mary Jo Good, Byron Good, Christine Mitchell, Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, and Jolion McGreevy partnered with faculty at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for a joint conference on bioethics education and clinical ethics.

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Rwanda, Switzerland—and elsewhere.

Visiting Scholars Visiting scholars and researchers come from around the world to the Center for Bioethics to conduct funded research or writing under the guidance of, or in collaboration with, members of the Center’s faculty. Scholars may engage in the full range of Center activities and have the opportunity

to deliver lectures, and engage in formal or informal discussions with faculty, students, and fellows. Most visiting scholars come with their own funding. Others are invited specifically to teach or coteach graduate courses in their area of expertise.

Past Visiting Scholars

Effy Vayena

Pablo DeLora

Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz

Professor of Bioethics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Professor of Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Assistant Professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Heikki Saxen

Vardit Ravitsky

Roel Wouters

Researcher, Finnish Institute of Bioethics and Tampere University, Finland

Professor, School of Public Health,University of Montreal, Canada

Postdoctoral Researcher, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, The Netherlands

“I’m looking forward to bringing the knowledge I gained while abroad at the Center back home to the classroom.”

— Marcin Waligora, PhD (above) Jagiellonian University Professor Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Poland

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Center for Bioethics Publications

Harvard Medical School Bioethics Journal

Pediatric Ethicscope

The Harvard Medical School Bioethics Journal has an expansive, international scope covering clinical ethics, research ethics, and health policy.

Pediatric Ethicscope: The Journal of Pediatric Bioethics is supported by the Center for Bioethics.

It is a peer-reviewed clinical and academic journal dedicated to presenting the work of multidisciplinary contributors sharing diverse, nuanced perspectives on issues in pediatric ethics and clinical ethics.

Both publications are free and accessible online, and neither charges author’s fees. The Center supports democratizing knowledge in bioethics and solicits manuscripts from around the world.

Stowe Locke Teti, HEC-C Executive Editor, Pediatric Ethicscope Executive Editor, HMS Bioethics Journal HMS Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine Director, Writing Support Program

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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

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Global Community Center collaborations, educational programs, partnerships, and alumni around the world.

Antigua Australia Brazil Canada Croatia Denmark

Students hail from many states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Dubai Greece Finland

Poland

India

Rwanda

Indonesia

Saudi Arabia

Israel

Singapore

Japan

South Africa

Liberia

South Korea

Malaysia

Spain

Netherlands

Switzerland

New Zealand

United Kingdom

Nigeria

United States of America

“This is a great mid-career program. The expertise that I gained in moral theory, conflict resolution, and U.S. health policy are vital to my work.”

— Yusuke Mori, PhD, MPA, MBE Chief, Planning and Coordination Division, Bureau of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Government of Japan

“The MBE gave me the academic foundation, and skill set, as well as a platform to share my experiences as an effective bioethicist in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

— Gloria Mason, MBE Coordinator, Liberian National Research Ethics Board/Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccines in Liberia

“Bioethics training gave me the capacity to challenge myself and my team about complicated humanitarian dilemmas.”

— Elias Pavlopoulos, MPH, MBE Former General Director, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Greece

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

Career building and networking are important features of our programs. Faculty collaborate with colleagues around the world, drawing students and fellows into their work and facilitating future connections.

Alumni from the Center’s programs work in the United States and more than two dozen other countries around the globe.

If you are interested in supporting the work of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, please reach out to the directors or visit bioethics.hms.harvard.edu.

On the cover (from left): Matthew Riley III, MDiv, MBE ’19, completed his master’s degree in bioethics at HMS and developed an ethics curriculum for a new medical school in Rwanda during his bioethics fellowship; Robert Truog, MD, is a practicing pediatric critical care physician at Boston Children’s Hospital while also directing the Center, and writing and teaching about medical ethics; Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, JD, MD, is both an attorney and psychiatrist, directing the Center’s master's degree program while also serving on the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, and continuing clinical work at Massachusetts General Hospital; Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, is a nurse and clinical ethicist who works on developing partnerships for international bioethics education as part of her leadership of the Center; Bizu Gelaye PhD, MPH, works on international minority health research training around the world while also teaching research ethics; and Mildred Solomon, EdD, presides over the world’s best known bioethics scholarship think tank, The Hastings Center, in addition to heading the Center’s bioethics fellowship program.

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