The MUHC Centre for Applied Ethics

The MUHC Centre for Applied Ethics provides ethics services to the MUHC community in situations where competing values raise important questions related to clinical and innovative care, research and organizational decision-making. 

The three broad areas of expertise include:

  1. Organisational
  2. Clinical
  3. Research

The Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE) was created April 1, 2014. The transition towards the CAE is ongoing and involves the integration of the Research Ethics Office and the Office of Clinical Ethics, as well as the development of organizational ethics services. Existing Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) and Research Ethics Boards (REBs) will continue with their mandates of policy development and ensuring ethical oversight of research involving human participants respectively.