UM Ethics Programs Named
World Health Organization Collaborating Center
Designation is 3rd in World, 1st in U.S.
The University of Miami Ethics Programs have been designated a Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy by the World Health Organization in Geneva. UM’s center is the third of its kind in the world and the first in the United States. More»
Arsht Initiatives
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About the Initiatives
Community leader Adrienne Arsht has made a $1 million gift to benefit the University of Miami’s Ethics Programs. Ms. Arsht’s gift, equal to the largest ever to support an ethics program in Florida, will fund a suite of university-wide, interdisciplinary initiatives: an ethics debate series, a distinguished speakers program and a research program. More»
Activity Update
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16th ANNUAL Bioethics CONFERENCE |
With a keynote talk by Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Bob Butterworth and featured sessions on ethics and aging, Joint Commission ethics requirements, and pandemic preparedness, the 16th Annual "Florida Bioethics: Debates Decisions, Solutions" conference was one of the best ever. Sponsors included the Miami Area Geriatric Education Center (MAGEC) and Florida's Department of Health. Click here for the program. |
IN THE COMMUNITY: "COMPASSION FATIGUE" AND LONG-TERM CARE
The Fourteenth Annual Douglas Gardens’ Seminar on Ministering to the Elderly has as this year's topic "Compassion Fatigue: The Sandwich Generation’s Challenge of Providing Long-Term Care for Family Members.” The workshop is set for June 11 at The Miami Jewish Home and Hospital at Douglas Gardens. For more information, call (305) 795-8470.
SOUTH FLORIDA CREATES PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY ETHICS COMMITTEE
The Miami-Dade County Hospital Preparedness Consortium, created by the Miami-Dade County Health Department, has established an Ethics Advisory Group to work with other emergency planners to ensure that ethical issues are adequately addressed during the planning process. Working in close cooperation with the Health Council of South Florida and the University of Miami Ethics Programs, the Ethics Advisory Group has begun meeting to draft ethics policy guidelines and prepare related resources. More»
THE TIMELINE PROJECT
Timelines can be useful resources for students, researchers, policy makers and others. UM Ethics Programs have initiated "The TimeLine Project" to develop and feature timelines on a variety of topics. Just published: Florida and U.S. stem cell policy timelines, prepared by UM medical student Harry Ritter. The project grew out of the extraordinary success of our web resource on the Terri Schiavo case, including a timeline of critical events and associated documents.
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION GRANT
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded UM Ethics Programs an unprecedented grant for work on ethics and health information technology. We're collaborating with a nationwide group of other grantees developing electronic personal health records. The grant links faculty from the Miller School of Medicine, the School of Law and the School of Business Administration. More»
SUMMER ETHICS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: A DECADE OF SUPPORT FOR STUDENT RESEARCH
The University of Miami offers a variety of summer internships in ethics and the professions. Interns are expected to work on a mentored research project in bioethics, business ethics, government and professional ethics or the like. Interns, who receive a modest stipend, meet regularly in small groups that include didactic sessions and at which they update faculty and each other on progress in their projects. Students are expected to complete a final, written report at the end of the session. Created in 1996 with philosophy students as the core constituency, the Summer Ethics Internship Program is traditionally sponsored by the University of Miami Ethics Programs, the Department of Philosophy and the College of Arts and Sciences. Click here for a history of summer interns and, in most cases, project titles and abstracts. When projects have resulted in publications, the citations are given. For more information, email the UM Ethics Programs at ethics@miami.edu.
ETHICS AND GUARDIANSHIP
Florida's Statewide Public Guardianship Office has sponsored Case Studies in Guardianship Ethics, a special resource for Florida's guardians, lawyers and courts. More»
ETHICS CURRICULUM PROJECT
We've been working with the Youth Ethics Initiative, other South Florida universities and Miami-Dade County Public Schools on an unprecedented Ethics Curriculum Project, an effort to develop teacher-friendly tools for addressing ethics across the curriculum . Click here for the latest call for proposals. And have a look at a news report on the project.
TOOLS FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS
Review our expanding resources for researchers in the Caribbean and Latin America. More»
In Print
CITI Program Co-PI Paul Branschweiger and Ethics Programs Co-Director Ken Goodman have just published "The CITI Program: An International Online Resource for Education in Human Subjects Protection and the Responsible Conduct of Research" in Academic Medicine. Click here for the abstract.... And Ethics Programs Co-Director Anita Cava has recently co-authored "Integrative Social Contract Theory and Urban Prosperity Initiatives" in the Journal of Business Ethics. Click here for the abstract.
To request reprints or to submit a publication for a future listing, please contact us.
In Memoriam
Dr. Phil Pennell, a longtime ethics educator, has died. A nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Dr. Pennell helped introduce ethics into the school's curriculum in the 1980s. More».
About us
Now in their 17th year, UM Ethics Programs foster and support a range of
efforts dedicated to education, research and community service in ethics and the
professions. We do this by sponsoring and developing a variety of courses,
conferences, research projects, seminars and other activities around the
University of Miami and with partners throughout Florida, the United States and
the Americas.
This university-wide inter- and multi-disciplinary program has emphasized work in bioethics, business and professional ethics and scientific ethics.
From undergraduate UM academic societies to the federal government, the Ethics Programs have enjoyed a variety of collaborations on and contributions to special projects. For more information about these efforts, to propose additional projects or to contribute to or sponsor our work, please contact us.
