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.
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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
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Choose Food: Ethically Benchmarking Food Systems
Empowering eaters by enabling informed ethical decision making around food choices
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Ethics for Lunch: Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis
Monthly discussion series reviewed important real-life clinical ethics issues arising from the pandemic
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Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment
An overview of ethics guidance for public health officials in infectious disease outbreak response
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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
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JHU Exploration of Practical Ethics
Stimulating innovative interdisciplinary work that takes on ethical issues arising in professions and scholarly disciplines, within institutions and society
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Essential Workers Project
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Addressing the essential work of protecting at-risk essential workers during COVID-19
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eSchool+ Initiative
Active
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
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Ethics Framework for the COVID-19 Reopening Process
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Positing a framework for evaluating social distancing policies and reopening plans
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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
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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.
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Pediatric Chronic Critical Illness Research & Ethics
Active
Supporting parents and clinicians as they care for children with multi-system disease, dependence on medical technology and frequent/prolonged hospitalizations
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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.
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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
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Choose Food: Ethically Benchmarking Food Systems
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Empowering eaters by enabling informed ethical decision making around food choices
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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
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Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment
Active
An overview of ethics guidance for public health officials in infectious disease outbreak response
![](https://bioethics.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/practicalethicslgthb2-400x275.png)
JHU Exploration of Practical Ethics
Active
Stimulating innovative interdisciplinary work that takes on ethical issues arising in professions and scholarly disciplines, within institutions and society
![](https://bioethics.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/banner-project-baby-400x275.jpg)
Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment in Low & Middle Income Countries
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Developing Ethics Guidance and Practical Tools for Outbreak Response
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Global Food Ethics & Policy Program
Active
Deepening collaborations and partnerships, convening experts and leaders to shape policy, connecting scholars and scientists to societal players that shape the global food system