Projects

Our faculty are engaged in a wide range of ever-expanding projects, seeking to achieve more ethical practices and policies relevant to human health. Learn more about some of our ongoing projects below, or scroll to the bottom of the page for a full searchable index.

Featured Projects

The Dracopoulos-Bloomberg Bioethics iDeas Lab
A creative studio and incubator for world class stories at the intersection of science, ethics, medicine and public health
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eSchool+ Initiative
Formed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to develop tools and resources for schools to think responsibly about caring for students during school closures and the reopening process
Choose Food: Ethically Benchmarking Food Systems
Empowering eaters by enabling informed ethical decision making around food choices
Ethics for Lunch: Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis
Monthly discussion series reviewed important real-life clinical ethics issues arising from the pandemic
Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment
An overview of ethics guidance for public health officials in infectious disease outbreak response
Global Food Ethics & Policy Program
Deepening collaborations and partnerships, convening experts and leaders to shape policy, connecting scholars and scientists to societal players that shape the global food system
JHU Exploration of Practical Ethics
Stimulating innovative interdisciplinary work that takes on ethical issues arising in professions and scholarly disciplines, within institutions and society
Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE)
Identifying and analyzing ethical issues arising in infectious disease treatment, research, response, and preparedness, through the lens of global health ethics
Pediatric Chronic Critical Illness Research & Ethics
Supporting parents and clinicians as they care for children with multi-system disease, dependence on medical technology and frequent/prolonged hospitalizations
PHASES (Pregnancy & HIV/AIDS: Seeking Equitable Study)
Seeking ethical solutions to advance research at the intersection of women’s reproduction and HIV prevention, treatment, and management

Searchable Project Index

Learning Health Systems

Consent for Pragmatic Trials

Are there morally permissible and socially acceptable alternatives to informed consent for low-risk trials?

NIH Health Care System Research Collaboratory Regulatory/Ethics Core

Active
Navigating regulatory and ethical complexities associated with pragmatic clinical trials in health care systems

Stakeholder Views on Streamlined Informed Consent

How should patients be informed about research that compares commonly used treatments or widely practiced medical procedures?

Ethics of Integrating Research and Treatment

Filling in the knowledge and policy gaps to ensure high-value health care outcomes

PCORnet Ethics and Regulatory Task Force

Active
Addressing the ethical and regulatory issues related to research that arise in PCORI’s work

Realizing the Goals of Continuous Learning

Active
Insights on Ethics & Implementation from Institutional Leaders in Learning Health Care

Patients’ Views on Consent and Respect

Active
Demonstrating Respect and Acceptable Consent Strategies: What Matters to Patients in PCOR?