Projects

Research & Outreach

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

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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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?