As a field, bioethics has long been known for nurturing big thinkers within the academy who engage in changing health practice and policy to make both more ethical.

In recent years, however, the field has embarked on a parallel path that is more practical. “Today you find people who are essentially working day to day in institutional settings to make their local environment more ethical,” says Ruth Faden, founding director emerita of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. “It’s an exciting and important development: Bioethics is contributing at the granular level to advancing and improving the ethics of where health care is delivered, where research is conducted, where drugs and biologics are manufactured, and where governments are implementing policies.”

Enter the new master’s program in bioethics offered by the Berman Institute, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Launched in 2015, the six-term program provides training in ethics (or moral philosophy) and the foundations of the modern field of bioethics, as well as courses in applied bioethics taught by some 35 faculty members from across the university’s schools of medicine, public health, nursing, international studies, and arts and sciences.

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