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The NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) was established in September 2006 in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine under the Directorship of eminent British bioethicist Professor Alastair V. Campbell, who was appointed as the inaugural Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics. The Centre is South East Asia’s first academic centre for biomedical ethics in a medical school, with a dedicated professor supported by a team of researchers.
Under Prof Campbell, CBmE will undertake a major innovation in undergraduate and postgraduate education in medical ethics. Forging interdisciplinary collaborations with other faculties at NUS, including Law, Science, Arts and Social Science, as well as key stakeholders in Singapore’s healthcare sector and the research community, it will initiate a wide range of research projects in both clinical ethics and the ethics of the biomedical sciences. The Centre will seek to become a major location for teaching and research in South East Asia and its main focus will be on ethical values in an Asian context.
The objectives of the Centre include:
- Initiating multi-disciplinary research projects in biomedical ethics in collaboration with academics and professionals in the biomedical sciences and in clinical medicine
- Planning and implementing an integrated teaching programme in medical ethics for NUS undergraduate medical students
- Fostering international research collaborations, linking with centres in Asia, the USA, Australasia and Europe
- Collaborating with ethics governance and advisory bodies in Singapore, especially the Bioethics Advisory Committee
- Enhancing public understanding of ethical issues in biomedicine
- Promoting conferences and seminars in biomedical ethics at national, regional and international level
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