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

The Food Systems Countdown Initiative

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A large, interdisciplinary, multi-institution collaboration involving food system experts from over 30 academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and UN agencies from nearly all continents working to track and analyze global food systems and provide actionable evidence to guide change and bring about food systems transformation

Oxford-Johns Hopkins Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE)

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Identifying and analyzing ethical issues arising in infectious disease treatment, research, response, and preparedness, through the lens of global health ethics

People-Centered Food Systems: Fostering Human Rights-Based Approaches

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Supporting the right-holders and duty bearers in four low-income countries to better protect the rights of rural and peri-urban food actors living in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Honduras, and Uganda and to help improve their food security and well-being, through a more effective implementation of the rights-related instruments.

Food Flows Projects

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Building and contributing to an evidence base that informs action on alleviating food insecurity and building environmentally sustainable food environments of vulnerable populations

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.

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.

Research Ethics Committee Assessment Toolkit (RECAT)

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Facilitating evaluation of the operational needs of Research Ethics Committees globally to inform local quality assurance and quality improvement efforts

Choose Food: Ethically Benchmarking Food Systems

Active
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

Active
An overview of ethics guidance for public health officials in infectious disease outbreak response

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

Ethics Issues in Outbreak Containment in Low & Middle Income Countries

Active
Developing Ethics Guidance and Practical Tools for Outbreak Response

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