Impact Ethics: Making a Difference

This application is for an invitation-only workshop in Halifax to be held November 1-2, 2012. Participants will be potential research team members of a CIHR operating grant application in the Spring of 2013. The meeting will identify research questions and strategies that will inform the grant application. The primary research objective is to develop and promote ethical policy in the fields of health, science and bioetechnology. The purpose of this workshop is to engage key stakeholders and knowledge purveyors (bioethicists, policy analysts, and journalists) in debate and discussion about ways of promoting innovative, responsible and accountable bioethics as a means to effect the development of sound public policy.