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Our Mission: The Canadian Bioethics Society (CBS) is a collaborative national member-driven organization that is committed to building bioethics capacity through the promotion of: 1) interdisciplinary and inter-professional networks of individuals (including students) and organizations; 2) excellence in bioethics education, research, & policy; 3) the advancement and dissemination of leading practices in bioethics; 4) the examination of professional issues in bioethics; 5) and public engagement and policy development around bioethics issues.
Our Vision: To be the leading bioethics collaborative forum in Canada working towards advancing the health and well-being of people in Canada and other countries.
| Mission |
Priorities |
Action Steps |
| 1) Foster interdisciplinary and inter-professional networks of individuals and organizations. |
• Facilitate interdisciplinary and inter-professional networking, collaboration, connectivity & exchange
• Promote a culture of respect, inclusiveness, and diversity across the membership |
- Promote international collaboration in bioethics including collaboration with other international bioethics organizations;
- Link members to networking tools to facilitate stronger local and regional connectivity;
- Continue the annual CBS conference;
- Create a searchable database of members and shareable resources;
- Explore website and other technological communication innovations;
- Provide language translation for increasingly effective bilingual collaboration;
- Offer avenues for peer support for bioethicists in practice.
- Develop a statement of guiding values for the CBS organization and members;
- Develop strategies for better integration of less visible sectors, e.g., northern Canada;
- Host discussion forums to facilitate reflection and dialogue across bioethics disciplines, methodologies, and approaches. |
| 2). Promote excellence in bioethics education, research, and policy |
• Support innovation in bioethics education, research, and policy |
- Promoting bioethics education in academic programs and departments;
- Facilitate the identification of key priority areas in bioethics research and policy;
- Facilitate development of interdisciplinary working groups on topical issues in bioethics;
- Seek representation and advocacy for bioethics and bioethicists with such organizations as AMS, CIHR, Health Canada, SSHRCC;
- Support examination of effectiveness in bioethics practice;
- Facilitate linkages between trainees and bioethics practitioners around career planning and development;
- Continue to explore ongoing means to support student capacity within the CBS and within the field of bioethics; |
| 3). Advance and disseminate leading practices in bioethics.. |
• Facilitate identification and sharing of innovations in bioethics theory and practice |
- Provide a forum for sharing leading practices in bioethics education, policy (academic and professional) and research;
- Develop a mechanism (e.g., web-based) for members to share emerging ideas and approaches in bioethics theory and practice;
- Link members to academic and practice-based communications tools to facilitate dissemination and knowledge translation of emerging bioethics research and practice.
- Explore the feasibility of a Canadian Bioethics Journal and other knowledge translation modalities. |
| 4). Examination of professional issues in bioethics |
• Facilitate discussion around key issues relevant to bioethics practice and professionalism |
- Support the examination of professional practice issues, such as
credentialing, professionalization, & working conditions;
- Support networking with other bioethics organizations and professional groups facing similar issues. |
| 5). Support public engagement and policy development around bioethics issues. |
• Engage the public in topics related to bioethics
• Promote ethical health policy development
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- Conduct educational sessions and discussion forums with the public around bioethics issues;
- Optimize use of CBS website for public engagement;
- Facilitate public involvement in CBS initiatives and working groups;
- Invite public members to present in CBS annual conference;
- Link members to public engagement tools and resources.
- Promote ethical reflection in existing health policy
- Promote explicit ethical frameworks contributions to health policy issues |
| 6). Ensure a sustainable and accountable infrastructure for CBS |
• Ensure sustainable and accountable funding base for CBS. |
- Explore strategic partnerships with other agencies on collaborative projects;
- Revisit membership fee structure regularly;
- Build administrative infrastructure consistent with growth of the organization;
- Explore other funding opportunities to support CBS/SCB priorities;
- Continue to make society financially accessible to students. |
* Working Draft Definition of Bioethics: Bioethics is understood in its broadest sense to include critical descriptive and normative work, theoretical and applied work, and research and practice focused endeavors in clinical, organizational, academic, research, political, environmental, and global arenas.
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