UNC Center for Bioethics

Mara Buchbinder has been awarded a grant from the Greenwall Foundation for her project, “The Pediatric Vaccine Encounter in a New Era: Identifying and Mitigating Ethical Challenges.” The project is a collaborative effort with Krista Perreira of UNC Social Medicine and Douglas Opel of Seattle Children’s Hospital, bringing together expertise across institutions to address one of today’s … Read more

Rebecca Walker has been named Interim External Chair of the Department of Communication, effective July 1. This appointment reflects her strong leadership, commitment to academic excellence, and dedication to fostering collaboration within and beyond the university community.

Rebecca Walker and two Philosophy undergraduate students, Fia Jurgens and Jordan Mull, have teamed up to win a William C. Friday Arts and Humanities Research Award for the 2026-2027 Academic Year for their work on “Philosophical Explorations of Moral Status and Diverse Intelligence.”

Our Center provides an academic home for the UNC Hospital Ethics Committee (HEC) and the Clinical Ethics Service. Ethics consult team members were happy to participate in the hospital’s Team Appreciation Week, joining colleagues across the Hospital and UNC School of Medicine in recognizing the people who make our shared mission possible. Anissa Berger, our consult coordinator, hosted … Read more

In this talk, Justin Clapp examines how familiar bioethics language—such as framing medical “decisions” around patients’ “values” and “preferences”—actually functions in real clinical settings, including surgical clinics and intensive care units. Drawing on ethnographic research, he illustrates how these concepts are often taken up in ways that diverge significantly from their theoretical intenti…

The UNC Center for Bioethics hosted a regional bioethics workshop on Friday, April 10, 2026. Participants came from North Carolina institutions, including Duke University, Eastern Carolina University, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH), North Carolina State University, UNC-Charlotte, and Wake Forest University.  The event focused on participants’ works in progress and g…

On April 9, 2026, the Animal Studies Project, with support from the Center for Bioethics, Parr Center for Ethics, and Philosophy Department hosted a panel discussion on animal research featuring distinguished speakers discussing history, policy, and ethics on this complex topic. The panel was organized around the recent publication of Lab Dog: A Beagle and … Read more

The PREPARE (PRomoting Equity for Pregnant Adolescents in REsearch) project has seen exciting activity recently, with its team sharing work through several posters and presentations. We showcased three posters at the International Workshop on Pediatrics & HIV, followed by both a poster and an oral presentation at the International AIDS Conference (IAS). We’re also presenting … Read more The post …

UNC OB/GYN Launches Rural Fellowship to Combat Maternity Care Deserts. Dr. Kavita Arora, MD, MBE, MS, director of the Division of General Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Midwifery, will serve as the inaugural fellowship director. The post Kavita Arora serves as the first fellowship director for the UNC OB/GYN Rural Fellowship. appeared first on UNC Center for Bioethics .

The presentation was part of MCL Grand Rounds, hosted by the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, on June 3. ▶️ Watch the recording of “Challenging Allergies.” The post Jill A. Fisher presented “Challenging Allergies: The Search for a Magic Bullet for Pediatric Food Allergies” appeared first on UNC Center for Bioethics .