Overview
The John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre endeavours to promote ethical engagement, mutual respect and critical reflection on matters of moral concern in health care. We aim for excellence in four interdependent domains of activity interdisciplinary scholarship, clinical ethics, health policy consultation, and professional and public bioethics education. Compassion and social justice are cross-cutting themes in all that we do.
The John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre serves the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and the health-related faculties at the University of Alberta in the area of health ethics. We reach out to scholars, students, health care practitioners, clinical ethics committee members, health care administrators, patients and their families, media, and the general public. The Dossetor Centre annually hosts a health ethics seminar series, symposium, and publishes the newsletter, Health Ethics Today. Faculty members of the Dossetor Centre offer graduate courses in healthcare ethics and offer other educational events to those within and outside of health science faculties. In addition, the Centre's faculty pursue health ethics research in areas such as decision-making, relational ethics, compassion, disability ethics, human rights, mental health, moral distress, critical care, and artificial intelligence.