Other Programs and Awards

Consortium for Health Policy, Law and Bioethics

An initiative of The Indiana University Center for Bioethics, the Hall Center for Law and Health and the Center for Health Policy, the Consortium (an IUPUI Signature Center ) facilitates research, education, and public policy service on issues in health care, health and science policy, and the life sciences. More ...

Pandemic Influenza: Ethics and Preparedness

Recently, the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Indiana State Department of Health and Association of State and Territorial Health Officials convened "Confronting the Ethics of Pandemic Influenza Planning: The 2008 Summit of the States." More ...

Other Awards

Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D.., John Sidle, M.D. and Kara Wools-Kaloustian, M.D. received an International Development Fund grant from the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis for $11,806 This grant will enable Drs. Meslin and Wools-Kaloustian to study a group of Institutional Review Board Members to determine "Needs Assessment for Implementing the IU/MOI MOU (memorandum of understanding) in Research Ethics." They will conducted the study during the summer of 2004.

Margaret M. Gaffney M.D. and Peter Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D. were awarded a Medical Education & Curricular Affairs (MECA) Educational Research & Development Grant: Teaching the Ethics and Social Context of Pharmacology. Dr. Meg Gaffney and Dr. Peter Schwartz designed two Team-Based Learning modules on ethical, economic, and societal issues associated with pharmaceuticals. The modules focused on 1) challenges posed by the introduction of expensive chemotherapeutic agents in public hospitals, and 2) the use of human growth hormone in short, otherwise normal children. Dr. Gaffney and Dr. Schwartz used these modules to teach two sessions in the second-year Pharmacology class at IU School of Medicine in Spring 2007. [Awarded in 2006]

Amy J. Hatfield, M.L.S. was awarded a Central Indiana Community Foundation Library Fund grant: The Central Indiana Bioethics Portal. In addition to our primary constituencies, the Bioethics Reference Center engaged the future Indiana life sciences workforce by piloting the Central Indiana Bioethics Portal resource in selected Marion county high school and undergraduate academic programs. The Indiana Department of Education's Academic Standards & Resources already recognize the importance of bioethics in the high school curriculum. Many lessons and benchmarks identified in the Academic Standards & Resources, Grade 9-12 Biology I curriculum, for example, include bioethics topics and issues. The Bioethics Reference Center is poised to assist students and teachers researching these topics by creating a specialized, online resource that specifically addresses bioethics research needs. [Awarded in 2006]

Barbara J. Evans, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M. joined the Center for Bioethics in 2004 and served as the Director of the Pharmacogenomics, Ethics and Public Policy Program (PEPP). Visit, the archived version of the PEPP site.