Centre for Medical Ethics
The Centre for Medical Ethics (CME) is one of Europe's largest centres for medical and healthcare ethics. Our area of study spans from moral challenges in the patient-provider encounter, to research ethics and philosophy of medicine.
Research
CME has three prioritized research areas:
- Foundational issues in medicine and health sciences
- Research ethics and integrity in medical and health sciences
- Ethics and priority setting in healthcare and in public health
Teaching and dissemination
In addition to research, CME staff teach and disseminate within the field of medical and healthcare ethics. CME is responsible for teaching medical ethics in the medical eduaction at UiO as well as for several master modules. At the PhD level, CME staff teach research ethics, research integrity and philosophy of science to the PhD research fellows at the Faculty of medicine. CME is also responsible for national coordination and development of clinical ethics committees in hospitals and municipalities. CME is one of six departments at the Institute of Health and Society.
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Selected larger projects
BEYOND BARRIERS (webpage TBA fall 2026)
CATALYST (webpage TBA fall 2026)
EACCR4 (webpage TBA fall 2026)
- Ethics in health services
- ETHIMED - Ethics in Research and Clinical Practice
- Family involvement during severe mental illness
- Moral residue – epistemological ramifications, ethical implications, and didactic opportunities (MORE)
- Developing national and global agendas for the ethics of post-trial arrangements in LMICs during pandemics/epidemics (Pandemic Ethics)
- RELICATE (webpage TBA fall 2026)
- Responsible Explainable Machine Learning for Sleep-related Respiratory Disorders (RESPIRE)
- Supervised morphogenesis in gastruloids (SUMO)
- The Equitable, Inclusive, and Human-Centered XR Project (XR4Human)
- The Ethics of Mortality Measurement (ETHME)
- RER-CTO
Selected smaller projects
- On the concept of disease
- Overdiagnosis
- Medical uncertainty
- Scientific misconduct
- Ethics in HTA
- Ethics in home-based care
- Cardiopulmonary resusicitation in nursing homes - decisions and cooperation
- Professional ethics and healthcare services in light of virtue ethics
Selected completed projects
- Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoid-based research and related technologies (HYBRIDA)
- ROSiE - Fostering responsible open science in Europe
- AccessAfrica: Improving post-trial access in Africa
- Mental health care, ethics and coercion
- Clinical Ethics Committees in hospitals
- Ethics in Community Health Services
- Beyond Bad Apples: Towards a Behavioral and Evidence-Based Approach to Promote Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Europe (BEYOND)
- AccessAfrica 2 – Strengthening Clinical Trial Regulatory and Ethical Review oversight in East Africa