Center for Health Humanities & Ethics

The UVA Center for Health Humanities & Ethics is a diverse interprofessional community of scholars, teachers, and practitioners whose interests in the human dimensions of illness, health, and health care bridge clinical and social sciences, arts and humanities, ethics and law, philosophy and religion.

Our mission is to demonstrate the complementary nature of our disciplines while furthering their productive integration and application in the classroom and clinic, at the bedside, and in the community.

The center offers ethics and humanities education for medical students, residents, and faculty in many different formats and venues. In addition, center faculty teach graduate and undergraduate courses in biomedical ethics and humanities across a number of UVA schools and programs.

2024 Summer Health Humanities and Ethics Internship

We are now accepting applications for the 2024 Summer Health Humanities and Ethics Internship. Applicants should be rising 3^rd or 4^th year undergraduates, or recently-graduated students with course work or related experience in health humanities and ethics. The deadline for applications for the 2024 summer program is midnight, Monday February 12, 2024. You can find more information here.

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The UVA Center for Health Humanities and Ethics is a diverse interprofessional community of scholars, teachers, and practitioners whose interests in the human dimensions of illness, health, and health care bridge clinical and social sciences, arts and humanities, ethics and law, philosophy and religion.

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Education

The Center for Health Humanities and Ethics offers ethics and humanities education for medical students, residents, and faculty in many different formats and venues. In addition, Center faculty teach graduate and undergraduate courses in biomedical ethics and humanities across a number of UVA schools and programs. Many of these courses are cross-listed in different disciplines to foster interdisciplinary and interprofessional education.

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Moral Distress Consultation Collaborative (MDCC)

The Moral Distress Consultation Collaborative (MDCC) is an interprofessional, multi-institutional community of leaders in moral distress consultation with the exciting goals of establishing best practices in MDC, conducting novel and innovative research, developing effective mechanisms for training new consultants, and providing resources for new and developing MDC programs.

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Medical Center Hour with Peter Paige, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at UVA Health

Healing Healthcare: A conversation between U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and Elizabeth (Lili) Powell, PhD, MA

Jess Walters: Barriers to Belonging Mar 15, 2024 • 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Part of a series on Perspective Hosted at Welcome Gallery 114 3rd St. NE Charlottesville VA

Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, Awarded the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities 2023 Distinguished Service Award

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

Medical Center Hour with Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

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