BUSINESS ETHICS PROGRAM PARTNERS WITH mba NONPROFIT UNIT

UM's School of Business MBA Consultants to Nonprofits Program continues to make a difference in its third year with the American Red Cross of Greater Miami & the Keys and the Miami Children’s Museum participating. The summer internship program, which links full-time MBA students with area nonprofits, is sponsored by Adam Carlin, MBA ‘94, principal of Bermont/Carlin Group, a local Citigroup Smith Barney affiliate, and the university's Business Ethics Program. More»

florida 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»

International Conference on Communication in Healthcare

We partner with the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, the world's largest gathering of researchers, educators and administrators focusing on improving communication in healthcare. Our most recent conference took place on Oct. 4-7, 2009 in Miami Beach. More»

Robert wood johnson foundation's "project health design"

Project HealthDesign, a research-and-development initiative to explore aspects of personal health records (PHR), has come to represent the first-ever project in health information technology to include an ethics component at the outset. Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the program featured multidisciplinary grantee teams from across the United States. The University of Miami Ethics Programs received a grant to oversee Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) analysis for the project. The UM grant linked faculty from the Miller School of Medicine, the School of Law and the School of Business Administration.View a webcast of "New Frontiers in Personal Health Records: A Report Out from Project HealthDesign and Forum on Next-Generation PHRs"; explore Project HealthDesign grantee project information; and review UM's ethics contributions.

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.

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 . To participate in a research project which seeks to evaluate the curricula for teaching ethics and character education to high school students. Click here to find out more.

TOOLS FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS

Review our expanding resources for researchers in the Caribbean and Latin America. More»

In Print

Ethics Programs Co-Directors Kenneth Goodman and Anita Cava have published "Bioethics, business ethics, and science: Bioinformatics and the future of healthcare" in the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Click here for a full-text PDF copy ... CITI Program Co-PI Paul Branschweiger and Ethics Programs Co-Director Ken Goodman have 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 ... 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. The book Case Studies in Public Health Ethics, co-authored by Goodman, has recently been translated into Mandarin Chinese (right); more».

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In Memoriam

Dr. Julienne Prineas, a rhetorician who established and directed a center for scientific grant writing at the University of Miami and was a longtime friend of and collaborator with the UM Ethics Programs, has died. Her husband of 49 years, Dr. Ronald Prineas, is Professor Emeritus of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and was chair of UM's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. More»

Dr. Jane Mary Trau, a well-known Miami-based bioethics scholar and Catholic moral theologian, has died. More»

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».