University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics

Mission
The mission of the Center is to provide leadership in bioethics research and scholarship, education, community engagement, and ethics support services to advance:
❏ compassionate and fair clinical care that respects the dignity of patients and the professionals who care for them;
❏ public health practice and policy that promotes population health while being socially responsible and worthy of trust; and
❏ health equity and the right of all people to the highest attainable standard of health.

Values
The Center for Bioethics is committed to:
❏ connecting ethics scholarship to practice to improve clinical care, public health practice, and health policy;
❏ using collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to understand and resolve critical but complicated ethical issues related to health;
❏ recognizing the complexity of health and its determinants, and attending especially to the concerns of underserved and vulnerable populations; and
❏ promoting understanding of bioethics issues in diverse communities both within and beyond the University of Minnesota.