Global Health Ethics
Engaging with the ethical issues arising in healthcare and biomedical research within a global context
Education
Providing ethics teaching and training for medical students, graduate students, biomedical researchers, health professionals and ethics committees
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
Ethics Support
Offering advice and support to health professionals and medical researchers who face difficult ethical issues in their work
Population Health Ethics
Investigating the ethical aspects of research concerned with the health of populations rather than of individuals
Clinical Ethics
Exploring the ethical issues arising in day-to-day clinical practice and in the management of healthcare organisations
Research Ethics
Tackling the ethical issues arising in medical research
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 and medical researchers.
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.
The Ethox Centre is a partner in MESH: the community engagement network.
Latest News
The Future Care of Older Adults: A Cross-Cultural Networking Project – Funded by the Wellcome Trust
20 February 2020
The final report of a recently completed project on the Future of Care for Older Adults has been published.
New Vacancy at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and the Ethox Centre
12 February 2020
The Oxford-Berman Institute Bioethics Partnership has two post-doctoral research positions (one at each Institution) for researchers who are committed to interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration and who have a particular interest in exploring ethical issues at the intersection of global health and infectious disease. We are now seeking applications for the postdoctoral position to be based in Oxford.
Action needed to ensure research is carried out ethically in global health emergencies
28 January 2020
Governments, funders, and research bodies must take action to ensure that research is undertaken ethically during global health emergencies, says a new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.