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Clinical Ethics

Exploring the ethical issues arising in day-to-day clinical practice and in the management of healthcare organisations

Population Health Ethics

Investigating the ethical aspects of research concerned with the health of populations rather than of individuals

Offering advice and support to health professionals and medical researchers who face difficult ethical issues in their work

Ethics Support

Providing ethics advice and support to health professionals, medical researchers and policy makers

Research Ethics

Tackling the ethical issues arising in medical research

group photo of the Ethox Bioethics SST in 2025

Education

Providing ethics teaching and training for medical students, graduate students, biomedical researchers, health professionals and ethics committees

Global Health Ethics

Engaging with the ethical issues arising in healthcare and biomedical research within a global context

Global Health Bioethics Network

Building ethics capacity and conducting research on ethical issues in global health research with partners in Africa and South East Asia

Welcome

The Ethox Centre is a multidisciplinary bioethics research centre that aims to improve ethical standards in healthcare practice and in medical research through education, research, and the provision of ethics support to health professionals, medical researchers and policy makers.

Arts, Health and Ethics Collective

Ethox is part of the Arts, Health and Ethics Collective (AHEC) which creates opportunities for researchers to collaborate with artists, and engages with ongoing public health discussions about the role of art in advancing health and wellbeing.

Research Associates, Visitors & Scholars

Ethox research associates are former faculty and colleagues from other departments in Oxford or institutions elsewhere with whom we collaborate closely. We also host academic visitors and scholars. Find out more.

Ethics support

Ethox aims to improve ethical standards in healthcare practice. As a key part of this commitment, the Ethox Centre views the provision of ethics support and advice to health professionals, medical researchers, and policy makers as a priority. The Ethox team welcomes requests for ethics support, training and advice. Find out more here.