Please attend our Upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, “Unrepresented: The Ethics of Caring for Patients Without Surrogates" with Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, HEC-C. 🗓️: Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT) Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/ap67 Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates. Learn more and register at: https://z.umn.edu/apno
University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics
Higher Education
Minneapolis, MN 733 followers
The Center for Bioethics envisions ethical and socially responsible healthcare, public health, and health policy.
About us
Mission The mission of the Center is to provide leadership in bioethics research and scholarship, education, community engagement, and ethics support services to advance: ❏ compassionate and fair clinical care that respects the dignity of patients and the professionals who care for them; ❏ public health practice and policy that promotes population health while being socially responsible and worthy of trust; and ❏ health equity and the right of all people to the highest attainable standard of health. Values The Center for Bioethics is committed to: ❏ connecting ethics scholarship to practice to improve clinical care, public health practice, and health policy; ❏ using collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to understand and resolve critical but complicated ethical issues related to health; ❏ recognizing the complexity of health and its determinants, and attending especially to the concerns of underserved and vulnerable populations; and ❏ promoting understanding of bioethics issues in diverse communities both within and beyond the University of Minnesota.
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- Higher Education
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- 2-10 employees
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- Minneapolis, MN
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 1985
- Specialties
- Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Health Equity, Health Policy, and Medical Ethics
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You are invited to our upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds webinar, “Moral Distress and Burnout Among OB-GYNs After Dobbs” with Mara Buchbinder, PhD. 🗓️: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CST) Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/apae Gain insights into navigating the complexities of ethical dilemmas. Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs. Learn more and register at: https://z.umn.edu/aq9y
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Please attend our Upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds webinar, “Oaths and Expertise: The Bioethical Consequences of Health Policy as Medical Decision-Making” with Meredithe McNamara, MD, MS, FAAP. 🗓️: Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT) Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/apvi Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates. Learn more and register at: https://z.umn.edu/apve
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🩺 Ethics in Public Health: A Timely Conversation Join us at GVSU Kirkhof College of Nursing on Monday, Oct. 13, 6–8 PM ET for the DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy featuring Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, and Dr. Erika Blacksher of HealthCommons. They’ll tackle tough questions around vaccines, public trust, and life expectancy in a rapidly changing world. Moderated by Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s Chief Medical Executive. 📍 Free & open to the public. 🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/3J4LKWk
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Mark your calendars! Upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds webinar, “Oaths and Expertise: The Bioethical Consequences of Health Policy as Medical Decision-Making” with Meredithe McNamara, MD, MS, FAAP. 🗓️: Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT) Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/apvi Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates. Learn more and register at: https://z.umn.edu/apve
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Join the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences on Law & Values for a free, online conference on the ethical challenges of big team research. National leaders from a variety of disciplines will share new tools for conducting ethical and responsible research in large team settings. 📅Friday, November 14 ⏰9am-4pm Central 📍Zoom Learn more or register at z.umn.edu/NetEthics #NetEthics #BigTeamScience
Calling all researchers, scientists, administrators, and others involved in big team science! Join us for a free, online conference on the ethical challenges of big team research. National leaders from a variety of disciplines will share new tools for conducting ethical and responsible research in large team settings. 📅Friday, November 14 ⏰9am-4pm Central 📍Zoom Learn more or register at z.umn.edu/NetEthics #NetEthics #BigTeamScience
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You are invited to our Upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, “Unrepresented: The Ethics of Caring for Patients Without Surrogates" with Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, HEC-C. 🗓️: Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT) Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/ap67 Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates. Learn more and register at: https://z.umn.edu/apno
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Please join us for our upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds webinar, “Moral Distress and Burnout Among OB-GYNs After Dobbs” with Mara Buchbinder, PhD. 🗓️: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CST) Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/apae Gain insights into navigating the complexities of ethical dilemmas. Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs. Learn more and register at: https://z.umn.edu/aq9y
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Amos Laar, PhD, MPH, MA, PhD, FGA, has co-authored the article, “Marketing of ultra-processed foods on popular radio channels in Kenya” in BMC Nutrition. https://lnkd.in/ecJRVpBA
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In our latest Ethics Grand Rounds webinar, Sarah Gollust, PhD, discussed public perceptions of health equity, highlighted strategies used to promote understanding of health equity and public awareness. Watch now: https://z.umn.edu/arn6
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