For over 40 years, Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy has been a steadfast leader in critically examining and effectively responding to ethical challenges in healthcare and biomedical research.
With annual research funding exceeding $5 million, our Center boasts one of the largest funded research programs among bioethics centers in the United States
Key Research Areas
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) & Genetics/Genomics
Community Engagement and Public Health
Neuroethics
Health and Science Policy
Medical Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Clinical Ethics
Faculty Research Labs
Jenny Blumenthal-Barby Lab
Researching medical decision-making and AI, neuroethics, and philosophical bioethics
Faith Fletcher Lab
Researching community engagement and public health and genetics/genomics
Christi Guerrini Lab
Researching genetics/genomics
Kostick-Quenet Lab
Researching neuroethics, medical decision-making and AI, and community engagement and public health
Mary Majumder Lab
Researching genetics/genomics and community engagement and public health
Amy McGuire Lab
Researching psychedelics, neuroethics, genetics/genomics, AI and space health
Stacey Pereira Lab
Researching genetics/genomics
Vaso Rahimzadeh Lab
Researching genetics/genomics, AI and space health
Funded Research Programs
We also house formal research programs within our Center, which have a particular focus and often encompass multiple labs and projects:
Clinical Ethics
The center's clinical ethics personnel engage in scholarship focusing on the practice of clinical ethics consultation as well as on the challenging theoretical questions that arise in the clinical context.
