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.
playing god?
A 10-episode globally distributed podcast sharing the deeply personal — and incredibly moving — stories of people caught at the life-and-death crossroads of medical innovations and ethical dilemmas
Center for Ethics, Law, Policy and the Life Sciences (CELLS)
Issue mapping, policy analysis, and governance recommendations, taking advantage of Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC
Feels Like Home
Immersing the public in how families with Children with Medical Complexity adapt/build their home environment to meet their child's and family’s needs
Moral Histories
An oral history project capturing the stories and voices of the founding figures of American bioethics
Carlton Haywood, Jr., PhD, Memorial Symposium
An annual symposium celebrating and highlighting Dr. Haywood’s intellectual contributions to bioethics research and how his work lives on through his impact on others
sol_AI_ris
A live immersive theater and new media experience that uses brain-computer interface technology to explore the relationship between human, artificial, and natural intelligence
Johns Hopkins AI Ethics and Governance Symposium
Leading AI ethics and governance experts from around the world gathered to help build an interdisciplinary community to work toward a future where the development and application of AI is aligned with societal needs, interests, and values
Achieving Ethically Appropriate & Effective Local Context Review by Single IRBs
Identifying the purpose and content of local context review when using a single institutional review board for the ethical review of multisite research
Reexamining the Ethical Permissibility of Dual Role Consent
Developing empirically informed guidance for when physician-investigators may permissibly solicit informed consent for research from patients with whom they have a pre-existing treatment relationship
Institutional Obligations for Pragmatic Clinical Trials
Developing a normative account and practical guidance for embedded pragmatic clinical trials
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
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How K-12 Schools Should Prepare for Reopening
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An Equity Checklist for the 2020-21 Academic Year
Ethics of K-12 School Reopening: Identifying and Addressing the Values at Stake
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How reopening policies under consideration can promote or undermine moral values
Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response
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Report led by Berman faculty offers guidance for ethical use of new technologies in fighting Covid
Ethics, COVID-19 & Africa
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Exploring, from an African perspective, ethical challenges facing government, institutions, researchers, and the public in managing the pandemic
Essential Workers Project
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Addressing the essential work of protecting at-risk essential workers during COVID-19
eSchool+ Initiative
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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
Ethics Framework for the COVID-19 Reopening Process
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Positing a framework for evaluating social distancing policies and reopening plans
Justice and Equity
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Clinical Decision Making
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Developing a Better Understanding of Public Private Partnerships for Nutrition: Towards the Next Generation of PPP Models
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Examining how Public Private Partnerships can advance the goals of both public health nutrition and business
The Food Systems Dashboard
An innovative platform that launched in 2020 to bring together an extensive set of indicators to characterize global, regional, and national food systems with the overall goal to empower policymakers, United Nations and non-governmental organization development practitioners, civil society, researchers, and other stakeholders to understand food systems, assess their challenges, set priorities, and decide on actions to improve human and planetary health.
Pediatric Chronic Critical Illness Research & Ethics
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Supporting parents and clinicians as they care for children with multi-system disease, dependence on medical technology and frequent/prolonged hospitalizations
Seminar Series
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Leading bioethics scholars from around the world lecture on vital issues in the field at our biweekly Seminar Series. Lectures, held at lunchtime, are free and open to the public.
Levi Symposium 2019: Containment: Exploring the History, Politics, and Ethics of Infectious Disease Response in a Post-Genomic World
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Levi Symposium considers history, politics and ethics of infectious disease response in a post-genomic world
Choose Food: Ethically Benchmarking Food Systems
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Empowering eaters by enabling informed ethical decision making around food choices
Beef, Food Choices, and Values
Identifying ways to shift the consumption of beef in the United States in order to support planetary and human health
Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment
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An overview of ethics guidance for public health officials in infectious disease outbreak response
JHU Exploration of Practical Ethics
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Stimulating innovative interdisciplinary work that takes on ethical issues arising in professions and scholarly disciplines, within institutions and society
Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment in Low & Middle Income Countries
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Developing Ethics Guidance and Practical Tools for Outbreak Response
Global Food Ethics & Policy Program
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Deepening collaborations and partnerships, convening experts and leaders to shape policy, connecting scholars and scientists to societal players that shape the global food system