Bioethics research, education, and service provision have, since the 1970s, been focused in research centers or Research institutes. While the founding centers of bioethics scholarship are North American, notably The Hastings Center and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics in the US, over subsequent decades many others such centers have emerged globally. Note that some of these centers have also been involved in hosting scholarly and professional journals (List of bioethics journals) and participating in bioethics education (List of masters programs in bioethics, List of doctoral programs in bioethics).
Africa
Cameroon
Institut Africain de Bioéthique
Nigeria
Center for Bioethics and Research
Asia
China / Hong Kong
Centre for Applied Ethics
Australasia
Australia
Adelaide Centre for Bioethics and Culture
Centre for Human Bioethics
Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University
New Zealand
Bioethics Centre, University of Otago
Eubios Ethics Institute
Europe
Belgium
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven
Centre de Bioéthique, Université de Namur
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Center for Bioethics
France
Centre d’Éthique Médicale--ETHICS 7446, Université Catholique de Lille
Germany
Abteilung für Medizinische Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Ruhr-Universität
Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin
Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft
Institut für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik, Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Theorie der Medizin, Ludwig Maximillian Universität München Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen Zentrum für Ethik in der Medizin am Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus
Netherlands
Ethics Institute, Utrecht University
Health Ethics and Society, Maastricht University
Norway
Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo
Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting, University of Bergen
Poland
Center for Bioethics and Biolaw, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University
Portugal
Institute of Bioethics, Catholic University of Portugal
Serbia
Center for the Study of Bioethics
Slovak Republic
Institute of Medical Ethics and Bioethics, Slovakia Medical University
Spain
Institut Borja de Bioètica, Ramon Llull University
Instituto de Ética Clínica Francisco Vallés, Universidad Europea
Observatorio de Bioética y Derecho, Universitat de Barcelona
Sweden
Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala University
Switzerland
Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics in Health Care
Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel
Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich
United Kingdom
Anscombe Bioethics Centre
Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol
Centre for Bioethics & Emerging Technologies, St Mary’s University
Centre of Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire
Ethox Centre, University of Oxford
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford
Middle East
Lebanon
Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program, American University of Beirut