Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota

03/26/2025

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02/24/2025

Fall Semester Registration:
For Degree or Certificate Programs: Registration Opens Thursday, April 10
For Non-Degree & Visiting Students: Registration Opens Friday, May 2

BTHX 5325
BTHX 5620/8620
BTHX 5650

Learn more about the courses: https://bioethics.umn.edu/education/bioethics-courses
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

02/07/2025

Please join us today at noon (CST) for our health equity webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments,” featuring Keisha Ray, PhD.

🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.

Please register today: https://z.umn.edu/a162

Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates.

02/06/2025

Join us tomorrow on Zoom from 12 to 1 p.m. CST for a free health equity webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments,” featuring Keisha Ray, PhD.

🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.

Please register today: https://z.umn.edu/a162

Gain insights into navigating the complexities of ethical dilemmas. Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs.

01/30/2025

Please join us for our upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, “How Can a Patient Be Dead While Their Heart Still Beats? Addressing Ethical Challenges in the Determination of “Brain Death”/Death by Neurological Criteria” with Margy McCullough-Hicks, MD, and Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C.

🗓️: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025
⏱️: 12-1 p.m. CST

Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/a3zk

Don't miss out on exploring solutions and strategies to promote clinical ethics.

Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs.

01/28/2025

Join us next week for a free health equity webinar, “Environmental Injustice: The Clinical and Ethical Implications of Our Unhealthy Environments,” featuring Keisha Ray, PhD.

🗓️Friday, Feb. 7 ⏱️12-1 p.m. CST.

Please register today: https://z.umn.edu/a162

Opportunity to gain IPE credits and CEU certificates.

01/27/2025

Ruth Mickelsen, J.D., MPH, has been appointed to the MINNPOST board of directors:

Nine community leaders will join our nonprofit news organization's board, MinnPost's leadership announced Wednesday.

01/24/2025

You are invited to our upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, “How Can a Patient Be Dead While Their Heart Still Beats? Addressing Ethical Challenges in the Determination of “Brain Death”/Death by Neurological Criteria” with Margy McCullough-Hicks, MD, and Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C.

🗓️: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025
⏱️: 12-1 p.m. CST

Register Now! It’s free: https://z.umn.edu/a3zk

Don't miss out on exploring solutions and strategies to promote clinical ethics.

Earn IPE credit and receive certificates of attendance for CEUs.

01/23/2025

Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH, was quoted in the Minnesota Star Tribune: “Minnesota marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day against backdrop of Trump’s inauguration.”

The federal holiday is “a day for us to remember that we are all one people,” acclaimed journalist and Minnesota native Michele Norris said.

01/23/2025

Sign Up Now for Spring Semester Courses!

BTHX 5100
BTHX 5400
BTHX 5120/8120

Learn more about the courses: https://bioethics.umn.edu/education/bioethics-courses
If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

01/20/2025

Seats fill up fast—don’t wait!

BTHX 5400 | Introduction to Ethics in Health Policy
Explore ethical issues in current and historical health policy.
-Open, respectful and interdisciplinary/interprofessional class discussions.
-This course seeks to frame health policy from a bioethical lens and explore how policy ameliorates or exacerbates our society's profound and structural inequities that impact health.

Learn more about this course: https://bioethics.umn.edu/courses/bthx-5400

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].