More than 50 years of leadership in ethics for a complex world.
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University helped to invent the field of bioethics, beginning a tradition of creative leadership in practical ethics that continues into the twenty-first century.
Signature Projects
Bioethics Research Library
The Library is home to the world’s largest and most diverse collection of materials on the ethics of health, the environment, and emerging technologies and serves as a resource to the campus, community, and beyond.
Intensive Bioethics Course
Each summer, a diverse cohort of healthcare professionals convenes on Georgetown’s campus to grapple with some of the most profound moral issues they confront in their work, guided by internationally-renowned bioethics scholars from the KIE and beyond.
Ethics Lab
A core mission of Ethics Lab is to innovate ethics education to help our students to responsibly confront — and help address — complex and evolving ethical challenges.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
The KIEJ publishes philosophically rigorous and empirically informed articles that explore the conceptual foundations and complexities of bioethical issues.
News & Announcements
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News
KIE director quoted in Discover magazine article on “the thorny ethics” of Effective Altruism
KIE director Dan P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD is quoted in an August 4, 2023 online article in Discover Magazine on the “thorny ethics” of the philosophy of Effective Altruism, an approach to philanthropy…
August 14, 2023
News
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, along with the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, is profiled in the summer 2023 issue of Georgetown Health Magazine. KIE director Dan Sulmasy, PCCB…
July 13, 2023
Announcements
KIE scholar publishes first-of-its-kind disability bioethics reader
Senior Research Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the California State Polytechnic University,…
May 31, 2023