This nationally oriented bioethics program takes advantage of Wake Forest University’s unique attributes and strengths by focusing on social justice, biotechnology, and research ethics, as well as on clinical ethics. The distinctive Wake Forest context is reflected in the program philosophy.
Wake Forest is a premier academic center for education and research in the health sciences and a university with a strong sense of ethics and public mission. The Schools of Medicine, Law, Business, and Divinity, and the departments of Philosophy, Communication, Physics, Religion, Economics and Health and Exercise Science, all have faculty actively working in bioethics and related fields. Because it is necessarily collaborative and interdisciplinary, forming natural bridges among the sciences, the humanities, and the professions, bioethics is extremely well-situated to flourish in Wake Forest University’s highly collegial atmosphere, with its strengths in the liberal arts, the professions, and the life sciences. In particular, bioethics’ synergistic relationship with biotechnology is amply fostered by WFU’s biotechnology initiatives, including the Center for Nanotechnology and the Institute for Regenerative Medicine.