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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- Drugs and Drug Industry
- Education of Health Care Professionals
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- Environmental Quality
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- Food Ethics
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- History of Bioethics
- Human Experimentation
- International/Political Dimensions
- Learning Health Systems
- Neurosciences and Mental Health
- Nursing
- Patient Relationships
- Population
- Practical Ethics
- Professional Ethics
- Public Health Ethics
- Quality/Value of Life/Personhood
- Religion
- Reproduction
- Research Ethics
- Right to Refuse Treatment
- Science and Bioethics
- Sexuality/Gender
- Stem Cell Research
- Technology
- Truth Disclosure
- Vaccines
Research Ethics
Achieving Ethically Appropriate & Effective Local Context Review by Single IRBs
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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
Active
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
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Developing a normative account and practical guidance for embedded pragmatic clinical trials
Data Sharing in Pragmatic Clinical Trials
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Identifying the ethical and regulatory issues from requirements to share clinical trials data for pragmatic clinical trials embedded in health systems
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
Research Ethics Consultation Service
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Helping raise awareness of, and to assist investigators in resolving ethical issues throughout the entire research process.
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.
Genomics and Society Mentorship Program
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Open to undergraduate students, the Program enhances diversity among future ethical, legal and social implications researchers
PHASES (Pregnancy & HIV/AIDS: Seeking Equitable Study)
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Seeking ethical solutions to advance research at the intersection of women’s reproduction and HIV prevention, treatment, and management
PREVENT (Pregnancy Research Ethics for Vaccines, Epidemics, and New Technologies)
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Equitably including the interests of pregnant women and their offspring in vaccine research and development