Center for Health Humanities & Ethics
The UVA Center for Health Humanities & Ethics is a 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.
2026 Healthcare Ethics and Moral Distress Consultation Intensive Training Seminar
Join us for an immersive, in-person 3-day training experience tailored for multidisciplinary healthcare professionals who are ready to elevate their skills in healthcare ethics and moral distress consultation. November 8 through 10.
- New PublicationLearn More
Authors Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress have released the 9th edition of Principles of Bioethics. A practical guide to morality in the health professions, health policy, and public health, the now classic text continues to center on four fundamental principles of moral reasoning in healthcare: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.
- Arts for Health and Human Flourishing: An initiative of the Fusion LabLearn More
Art does not just decorate our spaces—it sharpens our perspectives, deepens our empathy, taps our capacity for awe, and reminds us of our shared humanity in medicine. Through pilot initiatives, FusionLab, CHHE's interdisciplinary innovation incubator, brings clinicians, artists, students, scholars, and community partners together to integrate the arts into health care and health professions education.
Moral Distress Consultation Collaborative (MDCC)Learn MoreThe 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.
Support Our Mission
Help us in our continuing efforts 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.
- NOV4
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
- NOV11
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
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