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Partnerships

The UNC Center for Bioethics has the advantage of a robust network of collaborative partnerships with other programs, both at UNC and beyond. These partnerships include:

The Department of Social Medicine

UNC School of Medicine

The traditional home for bioethics with the UNC School of Medicine, the Department of Social Medicine continues to be the UNC Center for Bioethics’ closest institutional partner. The Department hosts the academic appointments of several of the Center’s core faculty and provides the Center’s principal opportunities for medical school teaching.

The Parr Center for Ethics

Department of Philosophy, UNC College of Arts and Sciences

Serving as the “public face of ethics” at UNC, the Parr Center serves as an important host for public discussions of topical ethical issues and sponsors UNC’s collegiate “Ethics Bowl” team. The UNC Center for Bioethics and the Parr Center have established a close working relationship, including:

  • Co-Sponsoring guest speakers in bioethics. In November 2010, the Parr Center and the Center for Bioethics co-sponsored its inaugural lecture.  Since that time, our co-sponsored guest speakers are chronicled under Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds
  • Co-Sponsoring a student liaison between the Center for Bioethics and the UNC Bioethics Society, which the Parr Center supports.

UNC Health Care

The UNC Center for Bioethics partners with UNC Health to support the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee (HEC) and its Clinical Ethics Service. Their work supports clinical ethics capacity building across the UNC affiliate network.

North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute

The NC TraCS Institute at UNC is one of 60 medical research institutions working together as a national consortium to improve the way biomedical research is conducted. The consortium, funded through the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA), shares a common vision to reduce the time it takes for laboratory discoveries to become treatments for patients, and to engage communities in clinical research efforts. It also is fulfilling the critical need to train a new generation of clinical researchers. NC TraCS is one avenue by which researchers may be referred to our Research Ethics Consultation Service.

The Center for Genomics and Society (CGS)

Carolina Genome Sciences Center, UNC School of Medicine

An NIH-designated “Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research,” the Center for Genomics and Society is an interdisciplinary research center focused on issues emerging with the advent of whole genome sequencing, population-wide genomic screening, and other “large scale” genomic interventions.

screen-shot-2016-10-17-at-5-01-24-pmThe UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)

UNC School of Medicine

The NIH-supported UNC CFAR connects the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health in conducting and supporting all stages of HIV research. The CFAR includes an Ethics Program, designed to integrate ethical considerations into each of the CFAR’s principal research programs.

screen-shot-2016-10-17-at-4-52-57-pmĦIVE – Health and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Venue for Exploration

HIVE is a group of researchers dedicated to linking the humanities and health sciences through student-centered research projects, innovative curricula, and public engagement. Its mission is to help prepare the next generation to think across disciplines, consult their values and passions, and tackle real-world problems to create meaningful social change.